The Scandal Of Hunger In America
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 […]
Obama: Not Enough “Hope & Change” On Climate Change
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 […]
Conservative Counter-Revolution and the Coming Violence
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.
UN: Greenhouse Gases Reach Record Levels
According to the United Nation’s World Meteorological Organization (WMO), in a report released on November 23, 2009, the levels of all greenhouse gases continue to increase exponentially. In 2008, the global concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide, which are the main long-lived greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, reached the highest levels […]
President Obama Must Attend Copenhagen’s Climate Conference
Sixty five world leaders have already confirmed they will attend next month’s UN climate conference in Copenhagen. President Obama has not confirmed his attendance yet, and if the US President doesn’t go it will give a serious blow to the conference outcome. The hopes of reaching a legally binding agreement have slipped into next year, […]
