Climate Crisis: What Would it Look Like to Do Everything We Can Imagine?

Published on Friday, May 29, 2009 by YES! Magazine Climate Crisis: What Would it Look Like to Do Everything We Can Imagine? by Madeline Ostrander Climate change is big, the biggest problem we’ve ever faced as a nation. In March, British economist Nicholas Stern said that inaction on climate change could cost the world one-third [...]

Global Warming Causes 300,000 Deaths a Year, Says Kofi Annan thinktank

Published on Friday, May 29, 2009 by the Guardian/UK Global Warming Causes 300,000 Deaths a Year, Says Kofi Annan thinktank Climate change is greatest humanitarian challenge facing the world as heatwaves, floods and forest fires become more severe by John Vidal Global Warming is already responsible for 300,000 deaths a year and is affecting 300m [...]

Oil Firms and Loggers ‘Push Indigenous People to Brink of Extinction’

I posted this question on SF so we will see if they come here to discuss this interesting article and answer my questions.   I have a question for you White Nationalists. I have posted the question on my blog. I won’t be replying here, but I am posting the question here so you can [...]

Obama Caves to ‘Scaredy-Cat Nation’

Published on Thursday, May 28, 2009 by Consortium News Obama Caves to ‘Scaredy-Cat Nation’ by Robert Parry A paradox of the modern United States is that it wields unprecedented military power in the world yet its people are constantly kept frightened about unlikely foreign dangers. Its politics, too, are dominated by fear. The way this [...]

The 8 Green Steps to Solartopia

Published on Thursday, May 28, 2009 by CommonDreams.org The 8 Green Steps to Solartopia by Harvey Wasserman The noble vision of a Solartopian green-powered Earth is at last upon us. Our eco-future is defined by the four Great Green Truths: we have a global crisis, it has a solution, the solution is winnable, and winning [...]

Avoiding Corporate Liability

Published on Thursday, May 28, 2009 by CommonDreams.org Avoiding Corporate Liability by Ralph Nader Once upon a time early in the 19th century, corporations came into existence by state legislatures approving charters, which were granted for a limited period of time and for limited purposes. These corporations – producing textiles and other products in New [...]

‘I Want to Be Able to Atone’

Published on Thursday, May 28, 2009 by CommonDreams.org ‘I Want to Be Able to Atone’ Elsa Rassbach interviews André Shepherd, a U.S. soldier applying for asylum in Germany by Elsa Rassbach Background: the view from Germany Berlin, May 26, 2009.  Early in June, President Barack Obama will sign into law the supplemental funding of 92 billion [...]

Headzup: Rush Limbaugh Calls Sotomayor And Obama Racist

I needed a little humor this morning.  Though the funny thing is that their are people who really believe this. Headzup: Rush Limbaugh Calls Sotomayor And Obama Racist http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFZG1u6sBhw&feature=player_embedded

The Years of Talking Dangerously

The Years of Talking Dangerously http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OaiaoVqWZQ&feature=player_embedded http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us38ftuNClY&feature=player_embedded

Catholic Democrats rush to support one of their own in bid for seat on Supreme Court

http://www.catholicdemocrats.org/news/2009/05/catholic_democrats_rush_to_sup.php Catholic Democrats rush to support one of their own in bid for seat on Supreme Court 26 May 2009–Catholic Democrats today applauded President Obama, who surprised court watchers by nominating Appeals Court Judge Sonia Sotomayor to replace Justice David Souter on the Supreme Court. Judge Sotomayor would be the sixth Catholic to join the [...]