Farmworker Organizer Beaten To Death
The backside of the US farm-labor market is hidden away in the mountains of Northern Mexico. Recruiters in the pay …
Monthly Archives: May 2007
Climate Change: Debunking the Debunkers
The New Scientist, one of my favorite science magazines, has a very handy guide, with further links, to the chief …
Ethics and Climate Change
Early in May an interesting conference took place at the University of Washington: Ethics and Climate Change Billed as a …
Australia: Rain
We’ve posted in earlier months about the severe drought in Australia. Well, hallelujah! Western Australia just got a good soaking. …
Tech Tips: Text Size
Some of you would like bigger text on your screen, when looking at this website, or when reading e-mail. Use …
Cyber Attacks
Anyone who has ever had their internet e-mail go down, or not been able to access their on-line banking accounts, …
India – More Bombs
Not greatly noticed, on Friday a bomb went off in a southern India mosque, killing 11 and wounding dozens of …
Surprises in France
Nicolas Sarkozy, the newly elected President of France, who famously courted Jean Le Pen, the extreme right winger, during the …
Enviros In the Board Room
You know attention has been got when Robert “Only Nuts in California” Lutz, Vice-Chairman of General Motors says that the …
Immigration Rules
One of the several big dogs stalking the news kennel this end-of-week is that the Senate has come up with …
Car Bomb in Michigan, 1927
In one of those accidental finds while looking for something else, I share with you this amazingly forgotten story from …
U.S. Marines against Torture
Charles C. Krulak and Joseph P. Hoar, two United States Marines, wrote this Opinion piece for the Washington Post on …