The final stroke in the Republican master plan to retake congress has just been released. It involves a purity list of 10 resolutions that candidates pledge to fulfill, in a mirror of the Contract on America in 1994.
Today, about 49 million Americans experience what the US government refers to as “food insecurity with hunger”. It is Thanksgiving, a perfect time to reflect on hunger. Hunger is a miserable feeling and a powerful word that rightly produces anger and outrage. Today’s hunger and poverty crisis is similar, in scope, to the one of [...]
Today, the White House announced that President Obama will attend the UN sponsored climate conference in Copenhagen. The US President is scheduled to deliver a speech in Copenhagen on December 9, on his way to Oslo, Norway, where he will receive the Nobel Peace prize on December 10. In the last few weeks, President Obama [...]
Since the introduction of Sarah Palin into the 2008 election, the right wing has been on the warpath. The rhetoric and volume of their message has been taken to increasingly fanatical extremes in an attempt to derail the movement for change and reform in America. This has already resulted in many deaths, and the conflict is becoming more open with every passing day.
According to the United Nation’s World Meteorological Organization (WMO), in a report released today, the levels of all greenhouse gases continue to increase exponentially. In 2008, global concentration of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide, which are the main long-lived greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, have reached the highest levels recorded since the pre-industrial era. [...]
