By Theodora Filis
In this week’s column Green Matters’ Theodora Filis tackles a reader’s e-mail question.
Q. Theodora, if you had to put together a list of your top 6 environmental issues of the 21st century, what would they be? (submitted by Bree.)
A. Depending on what part of the world you live in, each one of these [...]
by: Art Levine, t r u t h o u t | News Analysis
On the same weekend that Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin addressed thousands of followers on the mall in Washington, DC, with a religiously cloaked Tea Party message to “restore honor” to America, the Democratic Party set itself the ambitious goal of knocking on [...]
by Robert Reich
Connect the dots:
Many Americans (and politicians who the polls) don’t want a mosque at Manhattan’s Ground Zero.
An increasing percent believe the President is a Muslim.
Most Americans approve of Arizona’s new law allowing police to stop anyone who looks Hispanic and demand proof of citizenship.
Most would deny citizenship to children born in the United [...]
As appeared 23-8-10 on the website t r u t h o u t.org
by Denis G. Campbell
Why did Arizona’s two main gubernatorial candidates, Governor Jan Brewer, former Secretary of State/Head of Elections who contracted for highly criticised and easily-hacked Diebold and Sequoia ballot scanning systems and Attorney General Terry Goddard with his 3-year “criminal investigation” [...]
By Denis G. Campbell
My article on how Arizona elected officials continue to thumb their noses at ballot handling procedures lawsuit story will lead tomorrow morning on truthout.org.
It’s Monday morning though and this is The Line.
Real Editorial Cojones in Tough Economic Times
Kudos this morning to Think Progress editor Brad Johnson. He did not bow to [...]
by Robert Reich
The human tragedy unfolding in Pakistan right now demands our full attention.
Flooding there has already stranded 20 million people, more than 10 percent of the population. A fifth of the nation is underwater. More than 3.5 million children are in imminent danger of contracting cholera and acute diarrhea; millions more are in danger [...]
by Rev. Irene Monroe
In an attempt to dole out advice on the n-word, popular talk radio host Dr. Laura Schlessinger slipped into a rant using it.
When a caller - a distraught African American women who called in to be advised on how to handle racist jokes and comments hurled at her my her white in-laws [...]
By Theodora Filis
UPDATED Research for this article began when I was asked to be a guest on China Radio’s Today on Beyond Beijing contributing to their panel discussion on cloned meats. I was honored, but cloned meats? What did I know about cloned meats? Nothing, and apparently, I wasn’t alone.
Kept in the dark would be [...]
by Denis G. Campbell
The UK and USA talk a good game and respond to immediate job and economic needs by folding economic development into government, creating initiatives and studies and cutting back on direct investment that spurs growth. So busy planning to plan, they can’t see that they’re out of the game.
The UK Labour Party [...]
by: Henry A. Giroux, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed
When our fears have all been serialized, our creativity censured, our ideas “marketplaced,” our intelligence sloganized, our strength downsized, our privacy auctioned; when the theatricality, the entertainment value, the marketing of life is complete, we will find ourselves living not in a [...]
by Denis G. Campbell
Apologies to Oz’ Dorothy, when sound bytes run amok, the USA is too often later shamed for divisive, bigoted, short sighted, xenophobic and racist political operative inspired talking points.
It must be summertime in the USA. Congress is on holiday so the lunatic fringe right wing is ginning up yet another election year [...]
by Robert Reich
It’s nonsense to think of the economy heading downward again into a double dip when most Americans never emerged from the first dip. We’re still in one long Big Dipper.
More people are out of work today than they were last year, counting everyone too discouraged even to look for work. The number of [...]
I can haz machine pistol please?
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