For the second time in less than six months a “once-in-a-lifetime” weather catastrophe struck the U.S. East Coast, leaving America’s most populous region and economic heart paralyzed and struggling to recover. And just like the unimaginable devastation caused by last October’s Superstorm Sandy, last weekend’s massive blizzard has the disturbing fingerprints of`climate change all over it. [...]
Mar 302012
SPECULATION OR SANCTIONS: WHAT IS DRIVING UP GLOBAL OIL PRICES? (Antiwar.com) While some analysts argue that market speculators are artificially manipulating prices to their benefit, U.S. Energy Information Administrator Howard Gruenspecht calls this a “minority view.” The real major factor in that rise, he says, is the effect of U.S. and E.U. sanctions against Iranian [...]
Nov 042011
GLEN FORD TO OCCUPY HARLEM: NEVER MIND WHAT THOSE WHITE KIDS IN ZUCOTTI PARK ARE THINKING: WHAT ARE WE THINKING WHEN WE SUPPORT THE BLACK MISLEADERSHIP CLASS? (Black Agenda Report) Ford addresses the convening meeting of the Occupy Harlem movement at a Harlem Church, and gives a “power to the people” speech about the necessity [...]


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