On April 26, 1986 the worst nuclear accident in history occurred at the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant in the Ukraine. Over 600,000 people were severely exposed to radiation after one of the nuclear reactors suffered a meltdown. The accident sent a plume of radioactive fallout across Eastern and Western Europe and it resulted in the evacuation [...]
LOS ANGELES — California’s First Lady Maria Shriver took a tour of the Los Angeles Sports Arena on Tuesday to see the thousands of people who had signed up to receive free medical care through the Remote Area Medical Foundation (RAM). After learning that many of the patients at the event had not seen a [...]
With the premiere of HBO’s new film “You Don’t Know Jack,” the spotlight is once again on controversial Dr. Jack Kevorkian. While Al Pacino offers what Kevorkian himself labels a “superb” performance, the real Kevorkian made the media rounds last week, making appearances with Anderson Cooper, Bill Maher and Neil Cavuto. HBO has pulled the [...]
As if media mogul Rupert Murdoch had never been ridiculed by MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann in March over an interview he gave to students at George Washington University where Murdoch denied that FOX News hosts promote Republicans — FOX News continues to do business as usual: advocating for Republicans and their agenda, on and off the [...]
In Mckibben’s analysis: “ … at least part of the problem lies within environmentalism, which no longer does enough real organizing to build the pressure that could result in real change. Many of our largest environmental groups are still running on the momentum they built up in the early 1970s.”
