Until very recently, food was invisible as a political issue. Something is stirring. Pollan reviews five books that address the heart of the food movement.
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It’s been a while since I knuckled down on a piece of research and writing, but I was asked by Neotropica - and English language online journal from Costa Rica - to write something on coups d’etat. It will be done this month, ojala!, but it’s forced me to look in greater detail at […]

Dramatic increases in infant mortality, cancer and leukaemia in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, which was bombarded by US Marines in 2004, exceed those reported by survivors of the atomic bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, according to a new study.
Iraqi doctors in Fallujah have complained since 2005 of being overwhelmed […]

God bless ‘em. This is what disobedience looks like, and why we need more of it.
US authorities have known for weeks that they have suffered a haemorrhage of secret information on a scale which makes even the leaking of the Pentagon Papers during the Vietnam war look limited by comparison.
The Afghan war logs, from […]

And so we wade into our dystopia.
According to Representative Sue Myrick (R-NC), Hezbollah agents may be learning Spanish and disguising themselves as illegal immigrants in order to get into the US. TPM reported the following exchange between her and her FOX News interviewer:
“It really bothers me because here we are with a porous border, not […]

Inflation is not a problem. The economy is in a depression. The historic low yields on Treasuries indicate an appetite for high-quality liquid assets. The Fed should satisfy that need by issuing more debt, selling more Treasuries, increasing inflation expectations. That would increase spending and pull the economy out of the doldrums. Instead, Bernanke preaches […]

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The technological innovations and unregulated use of the Internet have created a global medium for men’s sexual exploitation and abuse of women and children. The sex industry has aggressively adopted every new information technology to increase men’s sexual access to women and children.
In the San Francisco Bay area, for several days in October 2008, […]

A few weeks back, the New York Times made mention of an astounding development, which has, for whatever reason, received little fanfare or recognition. Despite its Vietnam War notoriety, Agent Orange is in vogue again, this time down on the farm. Its reemergence, and in this particular setting, raises a host of troubling questions that […]

Changes in the practice of business journalism are a key element in the current financial crisis. The increasing emphasis on features and infotainment at the expense of hard
news has distracted public attention from the reality of global economies. In this article, we provide an overview of the dominant business and financial news media, primarily in […]