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Over at MoveOn.org there's a sort of vague anti-Big Oil campaign going on. The rationale: Since 1990, Big Oil has given more than $190 million to members of Congress and 75% ($142,635,314!) of those donations have gone to Republicans. Those donations guarantee an energy policy that serves the oil industry's interests over the public interest. …
Big Telecom companies want to control the internet In the days ahead, if we abandon Net Neutrality and some big honcho in New York City decides websites like this one aren't worth putting on his company's search engine, or provider package, it could be lost. These corporations very well could decide what is and what …
The Republican-controlled Senate refused Wednesday to raise the minimum wage, rejecting an election-year proposal from Democrats for the first increase in nearly a decade.
From the Madison Capital Times via Common Dreams: The brutal reality is this: If we don't stem the carbon dioxide emissions, we will see nations' entire coastlines under water from the rise in sea levels due to melting glaciers, other nations with such severe droughts that their populations risk starvation, and the extinction of millions …
The Oxford Research Group has released a new report...This major new report is the result of an 18-month long research project examining the various threats to global security, and sustainable responses to those threats. Current security policies assume international terrorism to be the greatest threat to global security, and attempt to maintain the status quo …
Dealing With the Devil in Darfur Submitted by Julie Flint from Beirut, Lebanon. Excerpt:AS the peace talks for the Darfur region of Sudan drew to a close last month, the United States took over the task of defining the solution. Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick flew into Abuja, Nigeria, where the talks were being …
My cousin Shannon is doing some real social justice by starting a school for street children in Bolivia this summer. To check out her travels, visit http://bolivianstreetchildren.blogspot.com/
I heard Mary Cheney on NPR the other day while driving through the Mojave. She was pimping her newly released memoir, Now It's My Turn (which isn't selling well), and bashing John Edwards and John Kerry while expressing strong support for the war in/on Iraq. On Fox News, she spoke out against the federal marriage …
An art professor has developed a game that memorializes the names of people killed in Iraq.What do you think? Does this make an effective statement? See: Professor Uses America's Army Game to Protest Against the War in Iraq
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