GLOBAL WATER CRISIS GETS SCANT MEDIA OR POLITICAL ATTENTION…AND THAT CAN LITERALLY BE DEADLY. Long thought of as solely and environmental issue, access to clean water can no longer be stereotyped as the domain of “tree hugging” activists. With a shrinking supply, climate change and rampant pollution affecting this quite invaluable resource, water is [...]
IS AMERICA DEALING WITH THE NEEDS OF ITS GROWING HOMELESS POPULATION? NOT EVEN CLOSE, SAYS DIANE NILAN. Ever since the War on Poverty became the War on the Poor and the federal government opened its boondoggling agenda of “10 year plans” to “eradicate” homelessness, most U.S. communities have managed to ignore the immediate needs [...]
Venezuela’s historic and passionate president Hugo Chavez passed away this week at the age of 58, dead of an apparent heart attack after also fighting a lengthy battle with cancer. The event threatens to realign the political scene in South America while exposing the combative agenda that marked the failure of the United States government’s [...]
FOOD ABUNDANCE AND SCARCITY: FEEDING OUR FOOD TO OUR FOOD. Frances Moore Lappe enters a Thanksgiving reflection on the irony that the world produces enough food to feed world population, but much of it gets wasted in ways that prevent its consumption in nutritional forms. Among the ironies of the agri-business mode of [...]
THE U.S. IS ENGAGED IN PLENTY OF “NATION BUILDING”; IT’S JUST NOT THE AMERICAN NATION THAT ITS GOVERNMENT IS BUILDING. Nick Turse notes the stark contrast between rhetoric and reality in President Obama’s words that the U.S. is not interested in “nation building” abroad but in “freeing resources” from investment in foreign development to [...]
THE POOR IN AMERICA: THE BEATINGS WILL CONTINUE UNTIL MORALE IMPROVES. In what Mike Whitney calls the “lousiest recovery of all time,” the U.S. economy has recovered from the recession of 2007 in only one respect: in booming profits in the stock market and elsewhere on Wall Street. Meanwhile unemployment remains high, real wages [...]
ANTI-POVERTY ADVOCATES CAN’T TALK ABOUT WEALTH RE-DISTRIBUTION, LEST WE BE ACCUSED OF INCITING “CLASS WARFARE.” One such advocate, Peter Edelman, who resigned from a job at the Department of Health and Human Services in protest of Bill Clinton’s “welfare reform” law, used to believe this admonition. Now, in a new book, “So Rich, So [...]
LONDON OLYMPICS MAY “INSPIRE A GENERATION” OF SPORTS ENTHUSIASTS—BUT WILL THEY INSPIRE THE BUILDING OF THAT BADLY NEEDED SWIMMING POOL IN EAST LONDON? Given the wild popularity of the Olympics with the British public, will the woefully inadequate sports facilities and sports organizations in the country be “inspired” to make athletes rather than couch [...]
NOW YOU SEE IT… : SCIENTISTS DISCOVER “UNPRECEDENTED” MELTING OF THE GREENLAND ICE SHEET. (The Guardian) Holding more than 10 percent of the world’s fresh water and potentially accounting for a 23-foot world sea level rise if melted completely, the fate of the massive ice sheet that normally covers almost all of Greenland is [...]
THE BIGGEST CORPORATE CORRUPTION CASE YOU PROBABLY NEVER HEARD ABOUT. (Reader Supported News) Matt Taibbi for Rolling Stone reports at length on the trial in New York City of three executives of GE Capital, the financial arm of General Electric. The case against them has all the earmarks of a Wall Street version of the [...]
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