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Bayer Pesticides Cause Mass Death of Bees
The German Coalition against Bayer Dangers today brought a charge against Werner Wenning, chairman of the Bayer Board of Management, with the Public Prosecutor in Freiburg (south-western Germany). The group accuses […]

[Hat tip to Charles M, Seattle]
An alarming number of women soldiers are being sexually abused by their comrades-in-arms, both at war and at home. This fact has received a fair amount of attention lately from researchers and the press — and deservedly so.
But the attention always focuses on the women: where they were when assaulted, […]

Alyssia Teresa Hobbs, weighing 9 pounds and 6 ounces, entered the stream of humanity yesterday, August 20, at 4:26 PM EDT. She is possessed of a thick head of black hair, a firm grip, a mellow demeanor, and a hearty appetite. Six family members were there with the midwife, when Allysia experienced her […]

One night last February, I was in Amman, Jordan interviewing Iraqis who had fled the catastrophic violence of 2006 and 2007. My partner in this work was my friend and colleague “Ali”(not his real name), who is himself an Iraqi refugee. While we walked through the city’s dark streets, quietly considering together the dozens of […]

Let’s face it. Our world is in deep, deep trouble and we are the “troublemakers.” We have to make real, difficult changes yesterday.
Despite the obvious benefits, we are not going to recycle, compost, or talk our way out of this.
Our leaders, being politicians, are not leaders at all but are bound to be followers, who […]

In this article for Counterpunch, Ms. Farsetta solicits participation from you and me in her research on the Pentagon-Media spin factory. It’s a worthwhile venture; and we encourage any and all to lend a hand.
Exposing the Talking Points for War
Cracking the Pentagon Pundit Code
By DIANE FARSETTA
As reporters and researchers know all too well, releasing […]

Lisa has pummeled me into creating this thread for Ossetia. (:
It is important, a defininte big shoe dropping in the Energy War. My own point on this is that it is both blowback and overreach for the US, that is sitting on the side, sputtering helplessly, while its Georgian puppet has just handed […]

The most concise thing I can say about my reaction to Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ is: I loved the book, but hated the movie.
As an activist theologian, I feel some responsibility to defend the gospel against contemporary representations or reproductions that I judge to be particularly wrongheaded or […]

By Melissa Farley
Like pimps on the street and pimps in strip clubs, the US military is using psychological methods to harm, not heal. Many of the practices systematically used by pimps to control women in prostitution - sensory deprivation, dehumanization, threats to family, deliberately induced exhaustion - are the same as those used by military […]

We said some time back, if it’s McCain vs Obama, the issue will be gender. Now we’ve seen it. In its most potent cocktail — the gender-race combo that tickles white male sexual terror. It was inevitable. And it ain’t over. Here’s the worst news… it can work. It […]