Month: January 2010

Cross posted from Nourishing the Planet. Soweto in Johannesburg, South Africa is most well known as the scene of massive protests and violence under Apartheid. Today, it is place of contradictions. While many of South...

. New Chile museum dedicated to dictator’s 31,000 victims SANTIAGO, Chile — What they’ll leave in and what they’ll leave out — that question haunts Margarita Iglesias as she considers this...

There has been a terrible disaster in Haiti. A 7.0 earthquake with an epicenter only ten miles from the capital of Port-au-Prince has leveled the main hospital and destroyed much of the city, including the presidential palace....

by Greg Palast is a documentary that must be seen if one is to understand what’s going on in New Orleans after Katrina and the Federal Flood. Palast’s tough, gutsy journalism reminds me of what “60...

Despite his admittedly dismal record of economic forecasting, the Times’ Anatole Kaletsky is again engaging in a bit of doom porn over the fate of the Euro in 2010:Disappointment ahead for UK — and big test for...