Pepe Escobar shows how Obama & his disciples are no less inclined to panic-mongering to justify military adventures than the Bush administration. Any time you hear the media get breathless, and that breathlessness is mirrored by government saber-rattling, be very afraid. US involvement in the region (including support for Musharraf) pushed the Taliban into Pakistan [...]

THE SPRING Break hordes returned from Cancún this year with an invisible but sinister souvenir. The Mexican swine flu, a genetic chimera probably conceived in the fecal mire of an industrial pigsty, suddenly threatens to give the whole world a fever. Initial outbreaks across North America reveal an infection rate already traveling at higher velocity [...]

On the south side of Chicago, in the back room of a house, on an old hospital bed, an elderly woman lies sound asleep. Her head is to one side on the pillow. Her mouth is slightly open as she breaths. FULL

In a stunning defense of President George W. Bush’s warrantless wiretapping program, President Barack Obama has broadened the government’s legal argument for immunizing his Administration and government agencies from lawsuits surrounding the National Security Agency’s eavesdropping efforts…. FULL

To search for solutions to hunger means to act within the principle that the status of a citizen surpasses that of a mere consumer. -CITY OF BELO HORIZONTE, BRAZIL Moderator’s Note: This shows that it can be done. The new revolutionary organization may be the Local Food Systems Council (sometimes called Food Policy Councils). …The [...]

On the front page of the April 3, 2009 edition of the Raleigh News & Observer, the capital newspaper for the State of North Carolina, is a giant dirty hand, Keith Shaljian’s hand to be exact: one of the members of the pionerring Durham edible landscaping collective, Bountiful Backyards. On the newspaper, front-page-above-the-fold, are two [...]