Month: May 2006

Thank goodness for people like Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash).  A new bill introduced by McDermott looks to exempt oil and gas companies from a 2004 tax break provided to businesses for “domestic production...

Two transcripts of video testimony in Muang Long District of Luang Namtha Province, Laos from Akha people documenting the rape and abuses of Akha women and girls, as well as the conditions imposed on the Akha forcing them to...

Another American election year is at hand, so it must be time to ramp up our efforts to capture Osama bin Ladin once again. Or at least that’s what the Asia Times is reporting today as it’s top story: Osama back in...

The WSJ has a lengthy article in its Op-Ed pages by Judith Miller, a “former NYT journalist and a writer in Manhattan” about the “undeniable and unheralded non proliferation success of the Bush...

The effects of logging are vastly underrated by most of the general public. They still do not connect the increasing contamination of their water with the logging of watershed.   Anybody who needs water to live should be...