Month: July 2010

The economy stinks no matter what people who earn their money from rigging the stock markets say. Unemployment is high, and throughout the land the hounds of hatred have been released by the usual suspects. And across the land...

. Dead man walking NAIROBI, Kenya (The Guardian) – August 7, 1998, was the day Mohammed al’Owhali had chosen to die. His mission, to destroy the American embassy in Nairobi. By 11am, 213 people were killed and 4,600...

Matt Yglesias was at Netroots Nation, and I wasn’t this year, so I’ll have to take his word for it that the conventioneers were depressed. It certainly wouldn’t surprise me. I’ve been immersed in...

You might find this a difficult concept to grasp, because if you are reading this blog you are more likely than not to call yourself a liberal or a progressive or worst of all a Democrat. That means that you probably support the...

Cross posted from Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet. This is the first blog in a series about Action Aid’s work in Senegal. They are found on nearly every street corner in Western Africa–freshly...