100,000 Latinos have fled Arizona in the 3 months since the passage of SB1070. This represents a huge demographic shift in the state, and the reasons behind it could be explained as a kinder, gentler form of ethnic cleansing.
The World Energy Outlook report 2010 was released by the International Energy Agency (IEA) on November 9th. The implications for the future of our planet are grim and stark unless some urgent and concerted actions are taken. The IEA projects, for its 25-year energy policies scenario, that conventional crude oil production will never regain its [...]
I’ve never been a big Tyler Perry fan, but I always admired his ambition, perseverance and gumption. Now the popular writer-director, known for critically lambasted melodramas like “Diary of a Mad Black Woman ” and “I Can Do Bad All By Myself,” has ventured beyond his comfort zone, managing to transfer Ntozake Stange’s landmark 1975 [...]
Between the devastating January earthquake, Hurricane Thomas, the cholera epidemic spreading quickly, and the very slow coming international help, Haitians are not getting any kind of break. Even if Hurricane Thomas wasn’t strong enough to wreck the island, heavy rains and floods brought by the storm, a week ago, are now spreading the cholera epidemic [...]
“Support Our Troops” means something different to different people. For some it is a blind acceptance of any and all military actions embarked upon by the United States armed forces. Dare to disagree with the war in Iraq or Afghanistan, say, and you are branded, in certain circles, unpatriotic. But such dissent ( if that’s [...]
