I'm pressed for time just now, so I put these items into a potpourri of descriptions and links. Something for everyone here, I think; but only two pieces of Good News. EPA whistle-blower Hugh Kaufman is a senior policy...
Back in 1997, when Sudan's Muslim North under Omar al Bashir waged civil war against the mostly Christian and animist South, killing over two million people and causing millions more to flee, President Bill Clinton enacted comprehensive sanctions...
(This is just a heads-up post, no analysis, no brave call to arms, just a morbid report that is hard to pass on to you.) What are we doing to the people of the world? A major study released...
(Request: Try not to go knee-jerk at the question.) Over the past month or two on the Café boards, both on the Left Side and, to a lesser degree, the Right side, this question has come into play. ...
Marvin Booker, 56, was a homeless ordained street minister. He'd spent the last several decades living back and forth between Denver and Memphis. He had a string of crimes in his past: loitering, carry a concealed weapon, disturbing...
The short answer seems to be yes. Ben Raines of the Alabama Press-Register has spoken with a number of marine scientists at private universities who say BP representatives are offering $250 per hour for them to join...
Oscar Grant and his daughter On New Year's Day 2009, Bay Area Rapid Transit Police officer Johannes Mehserle shot him while he was lying face down on the platform at the Fruitvale BART station in Oakland, CA. Two...
This is for Obey; wherever it may find him... Our son seemed to have been born with a predisposition to love grandparents. I don't know how he came by it; could there have been a genetic cause, hardwired somehow into...
"Want to do something about ending the War?" they ask. Here is a link to their Facebook page allowing people to make or meet groups this weekend to watch this Brave New Foundation video, and discuss 'What's Next?' This is their...
The first-line defense against wildfires is retardant dropped from air tankers. It often means the difference between stopping a fire early, or letting it spread, requiring additional ground crews and other kinds of air support. Western states weather has...
Josh Silver, President, Free Press "On Thursday, MoveOn and 34 progressive leaders and bloggers sent a letter to President Obama strongly urging him to keep his campaign promise to support Net Neutrality - the rule that prevents corporations from...
Some of us hoped that when the President fired Stanley McChrystal that there might be a pause to reflect on the Mission in Afghanistan; to consider the advisability of a nine-year war Americans are starting to turn away...
That's a quote about the Dodd-Frank bill that will go to the floor of both houses next week. It's from Josh Rosner of Graham, Fisher and Co., who appeared with Shahien Nasiripour (Huff-po Business) on Dylan Ratigan Friday. They take...
Petroleum News reports that BP's new Liberty Project off the North Slope of Alaska is not (was not) covered under the Obama Administration's Deep Water Moratorium. Frank Quimby, spokesperson for the Department of the Interior said: "The deepwater...
I stumbled into this headline this morning: BP Magazine Discovers Bright Side to Oil Spill (an outtake) "But in Planet BP -- a BP online, in-house magazine -- a "BP reporter" dispatched to Louisiana managed to paint an even...
The world wants the IDF's attack on the Mavi Marmara investigated, preferably by an international Panel. Israel wants to investigate itself. The world demands that non-Israelis be part of the investigative panel. Israel yields. You with me so far? The...
I saw this on Raw Story this morning; googled a bit, and saw many tech sites are adamantly opposed, mainly on the grounds that Government doesn't know much about tech, and also from civil libertarian groups worried about freedom of...
I find I'm unable to let this day pass without sharing it with you. Notification of this event was in the local paper; their web address was included. Rhythm and Soul: Participate in the Global Shift as We Ignite...
Like him or not, (I've come to more and more), on Keith Olbermann's program June 7, Howard Fineman said: The US cannot be viewed as an appendage of British Petroleum (as it in the UK, he'd said earlier); that's the thing...
One spring long, long ago, a man dreamt of A Bear. It told him that if he would go to a certain place in the mountains, The Bear would teach him something that would make him and his...
