Hat tip to Henry for alerting us to Ellen LaConte’s piece on producing your own food. linked below. This is catching on here in our new little town of around 20,000 souls. Hereabouts it’s a church thing. The Adrian Ecumenical Forum has just begun making donation community gardens, one 500 square footer that will be [...]

Out of sight, out of mind- right? Well that’s what Big Ag companies in Florida are hoping for. SB 1246 introduced on the 8th by Sen. Jim Norman, R-Tampa would make it a first-degree felony to photograph a farm without consent. This is the sort of legislation that will turn down the exposure on factory [...]

The United States has shown real hypocrisy in its treatment of two Arab revolutions – Libya and Bahrain. In Libya, the U.S. and its European allies have decided to go in with all guns blazing. With Bahrain it’s a different story as the Americans refuse to lift a finger to evict Saudi Arabia after their [...]

Here’s the NYT story: Despite warnings from President Obama that his return could cause yet another tumultuous political development here, the Rev. Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the twice exiled former president of Haiti, was preparing to leave his adopted home in South Africa on Thursday to go back to Haiti. FULL And here is a piece by [...]

Nuclear advocates have already developed their talking points. Don’t worry about a meltdown. Three Mile Island was a meltdown. No one was hurt at Three Mile Island. Here’s a piece from Harvey Wasserman that tells a different story, from two years ago. People died–and are still dying–at Three Mile Island. As the thirtieth anniversary of [...]

In December 2003, when I was working as a security analyst for a nuclear power watchdog group in North Carolina, I sent an overview analysis to Counterpunch entitled Bush, Security, Energy and Money.” The piece explained how nuclear power plants are prime targets for anyone wanting to attack infrastructure to create maximum damage; and it [...]

A cluster of news stories, whiffing slightly of hope, crossed my virtual desk over the last couple of days. Their scope varies from the global (UN) to the regional (U of Guelph, ON) to the very local (town of Sedgwick Maine). But their conclusions are harmonious: food sovereignty is a hot issue, agribusiness propaganda is [...]

Poking through the TV stations and saw an ad for yet another show I call gun-dramas. It’s apparently about a team of quirky, brilliant ex-criminals that use their special knowledge of crime to catch other criminals. Kind of a domesticated Dirty Dozen thing, with thirteen episodes a season. Only this one features not just men, [...]

We admitted that we were powerless over our addiction, that our lives had become unmanageable. -Step One of the 12 Steps to Recovery for Narcotics Anonymous As 2011 hits its stride, members of the United States Congress from both sides of the aisle are demanding that the United States Armed Forces be employed to establish [...]

Fade In INT. BUSY MULTI-CUBICLE OFFICE Middle aged man at his computer, eating chili from a styrofoam container BRAD (Suddenly stops with spoon full of chili halfway to his mouth, shifts his eyes both ways, raises his hip a bit, and rolls his eyes) VOICEOVER Perhaps you’ve known the shame and inconvenience of intestinal methane [...]