The Corporate Grip on Food Tightens They’ve Got the World by the Belly By P. SAINATH When you’re down to distributing fertilizer from a police station, you have a problem. It’s what they did in Hingoli, here in the Indian state of in Maharashtra. That was a week ago, but the police are still, in [...]

Two good posts on food [hat tip to Jim Wallis and Audrey Mantey] a food praxis cross-post from Jim Wallis’ blog Tuesday, June 10, 2008 Arrested for Feeding the Poor (by Alan Clapsaddle) Unconscionable: adjective 1. not guided by conscience; unscrupulous. 2. not in accordance with what is just or reasonable: unconscionable behavior. 3. excessive; [...]

[Posted at Huffingtonpost this morning... comments welcome there too] When I joined the army and when I reenlisted five times, I did something that every member of Congress does. I took an oath to defend the Constitution as the core commitment of my service. Then the army sent me to eight different conflict areas to [...]

Today I’m getting a short haircut. It’s been near or at 100 every day for a week, and working in that heat (with a Code Orange ozone alert every day) has been beating me down some. I’ll be 57 in November; and on the hot days I feel like I’m financially bunkered down in a [...]

By Chris Hedges Troops, when they battle insurgent forces, as in Iraq, or Gaza or Vietnam, are placed in “atrocity producing situations”. Being surrounded by a hostile population makes simple acts, such as going to a store to buy a can of soda, dangerous. The fear and stress push troops to view everyone around them [...]

I will venture a guess that, contrary to what many believe, Hillary Clinton’s biological status as a woman was as much an asset as a liability in the Democratic primaries. One can only speculate, but there was an understandable and fervent belief on the part of many highly mobilized (white) women voters that her achievement [...]