Month: June 2005

[at the kind suggestion of kossack jon meltzer, i am reposting this under a new title for, hopefully, greater exposure… please feel free to pass it on to as many others as you can… i am also waiting to find out WHICH...

This info was brought to my attention from an article by the BBC on the recent release of the United Nations Environment Programme’s amazing “One Planet Many People” Atlas.   I guess I’m not...

From Media Matters: A June 2 editorial in the Chicago Sun-Times — where Robert Novak’s column originates — “asserted as fact the unproven allegation that former clandestine CIA officer Valerie Plame...

This is some really creative stuff the Pentagon is feeding us: The most recent, and perhaps strangest, case of mishandling was documented on March 25, 2005, when a detainee complained to the guards that urine came through an air...

“A good case can be made that marijuana prohibition costs too much — in money, but also in ruined lives and harm done to society,” writes Alternet’s Bruce Mirkin. A Harvard economist’s study —...