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Food System in Danger
Paul Roberts
Parts of our food chain are toxic and dangerous. With increasing frequency in recent years outbreaks of food-borne bacteria have resulted in deaths and the sickening of many thousands. Pathogens appear in our beef, chicken, lettuce, peppers, spinach, tomatoes, pistachios and peanuts. What’s next? The industrialized agribusiness model is fraying and is posing more and […]
Human Rights in India: Binayak Sen
Satya Sivaraman
Touted as an emerging superpower and the world’s largest democracy, India is a very complex country with enormous internal problems such as desperate economic inequality, hunger, racism, casteism and religious bigotry. There are pogroms of Christians in Orissa and Muslims in Gujarat. Not surprisingly, the oppressed are fighting back. There is a series of mini-wars […]
Journalism and the Crisis of Democracy
Robert McChesney
Stop the presses! Breaking News! Journalism is dying! The terms seismic shifts and tectonic plates moving are overused but they certainly apply to journalism today. The venerable fourth estate is an endangered species. Newspapers, like the Rocky Mountain News in Denver, which was around for 150 years, have closed. Many others are threatened. Foreign reporting, […]
Banksta Capitalism
Arun Gupta
“We cannot rebuild this economy on the same pile of sand,” declares the president. But it seems that’s what going on. Obama’s treasury secretary says, “We have a financial system that is run by private shareholders, managed by private institutions, and we’d like to continue to do our best to preserve that.” That’s the stated […]
The Work of Hope
Frances Moore Lappe
In times of great stress, the word hope falls off our tongue with more frequency. We hope things will get better. Hope is positive and uplifting. “Rising sun energy” as a great Tibetan teacher once termed it. Emily Dickinson wrote in a poem, “Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul.” It is […]
A People’s History of Sports in the U.S.
Dave Zirin
“1968. There was never a year when the world of sports and politics collided so breathlessly,” writes Dave Zirin. And nothing symbolized that year more than the iconic image of medal winners Tommie Smith and John Carlos on the podium with their raised black gloved fists at the Mexico City Olympics. They also wore no […]
Casino Capitalism
Richard Wolff
F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby, his signature novel about the Roaring Twenties, wrote, “They were careless people. They smashed up things and creatures. Then they retreated back into their money, or their great carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together. They retreated and let other people clean up the messes they […]
Terrorism: No Easy Answers
Arundhati Roy
There are myriad types of terrorism. But the focus is highly selective. 200,000 Indian farmers killing themselves because of debt or 4,000 children dying every day around the world because of no access to clean water are not considered. Nor are massacres of Muslims in the Indian states of Gujarat and Maharashtra or of Sikhs […]
Free Tibet
Tenzin Tsundue
Tibet is the inspiration behind the idea of Shangrila, paradise on earth. Scholars can debate the veracity of that. But today Tibet, in the words of the Dalai Lama, its spiritual leader, is “hell on earth” and “these 50 years have brought untold suffering and destruction to the land and people of Tibet. Today, the religion, culture, language and […]
Pakistan: Failed State or Failed Leaders?
Fatima Bhutto
Almost since its inception in 1947 Pakistan has been in the orbit of U.S. power. Billions have flowed to a succession of military dictators and corrupt civilian regimes. Today, Pakistan, armed with nuclear weapons, is on the verge of economic and political collapse. It is called “the next Somalia.” American bombing of Pakistan is a […]
Food Justice
Vandana Shiva
The global financial debacle has drowned out coverage of the rise in food prices. There are billion-dollar bailouts for banks while the poor go hungry. A billion people around the world face food insecurity. The crisis has arisen from a mix of speculation and deregulation, promotion of inputs such as fertilizers and pesticides, the diversion […]
Dr. King and the American Dream
Michael Eric Dyson
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr has been branded and packaged. The sharp edge has been largely replaced with a dull and unthreatening one. King moved way beyond his poetic “I Have a Dream” speech to a radical societal analysis. His ideas in his last few years have been glossed over and sanitized. This is what […]

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