INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC ACCURACY – PRESS RELEASE: CNN is reporting: “Police in Tunisia’s capital city used batons and tear gas to clear a peaceful demonstration on Friday. … [This occurs] after days of riots that have killed at least 21 people.” STEPHEN ZUNES Zunes just wrote the piece “Pro-Democracy Uprising Fails to Keep Washington From Backing Tunisian Dictatorship.” Zunes is … Read More
HUFFINGTON POST – 34,000 year-old bacteria were found in Death Valley… alive. A new paper published in the January 2011 edition of GSA Today tells the story of the bacteria, which remained in a virtual “suspended animation” for millennia. “They’re alive, but they’re not using any energy to swim around, they’re not reproducing,” Brian Schubert, the bacteria’s discoverer, told OurAmazingPlanet. … Read More
The Story of Stuff Project presents the Story of Electronics: Why ‘Designed for the Dump’ is Toxic for People and the Planet. Annie Leonard teaches us that electronics today are hard to upgrade, easy to break and impractical to repair. Her short film takes us through the life of electronics – before and after they are throw away – … Read More
THE INDEPENDENT/UK – Soldiers, soldiers everywhere. In the valleys, on the mountains, in the streets of Beirut. I have never seen so many soldiers. Are they going to “liberate” Jerusalem? Or are they going to destroy all the Arab dictatorships? They are supposed to stop the country of Lebanon from sliding into a civil war, I suppose. Hezbollah, we are … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS – Coming from the Northwest, I was exposed to Native American totem poles early in childhood. I always loved the caricatures of beasts, man and gods; bold cuts into monolithic tree trunks with colorful paint made these sculptures come alive.My own ‘totem’ pole, “Tree of Life” draws its inspiration from our country’s caretakers before us. I wanted to … Read More
