Fountain of Light
 Commentary
The Challenge Of Modern Slavery
Loretta Napoleoni: "Slavery is in our refrigerators. From fruit to beef, from sugar to coffee, slave labor brings food to our tables...Almost every product we consume has a hidden dark history, from slave labor to piracy, from counterfeit to fraud, from theft to money laundering.
May 8, 2008, 3:23pm
Articles
ADDHU Newsletter - May 2008
From the Association for the Defense of Human Rights: An update from Burma including "Dozens Reported Dead in Insein Prison Clash", The status of the referendum - NLD says - Vote No! and a moving letter from Tibet - This email was sent 4/27 to a professor from a former student living in Lhasa.
May 7, 2008, 11:01am
News
Carbon Trading Blasted by Indigenous Groups
UNITED NATIONS, May 5 (OneWorld) - The United Nations is facing scathing criticism from the world's indigenous communities for its attempts to promote carbon trading as a tool to address climate change concerns. "The UN is allowing companies who are the biggest emitters of greenhouse gases to continue to pollute"
May 6, 2008, 1:33pm
Articles
Indiana and the shadow of '68
Mike Littwin: "You'd never know anything significant had happened here, not unless you go to the monument that's set in a field of dandelions. It's a sculpture, named Landmark for Peace, of Bobby Kennedy facing Martin Luther King, both with outstretched hands - hands that do not quite touch.
May 6, 2008, 11:52am
Blogosphere
Sixty Years of Palestinian Displacement, Occupation and Suffering
Stephen Lendman: "In December 1947, Jews in Palestine numbered 600,000 compared to 1.3 million Palestinians. Ben-Gurion ordered them removed with commands like: "Every attack has to end with occupation, destruction and expulsion."
May 6, 2008, 11:28am
Features
Cinco de Mayo, Denver 2008
Photos from Saturday May 3. The day was slightly muted after a cold spell but the weather was warm and the vibes were good!
May 5, 2008, 4:03pm
Meditations
In the Light of the Earth
Martin LeFevre: "In the Shadow of the Moon" is a documentary film that captures something of what it was like to go to the moon. In it, the astronauts recount their experiences and give their perspectives and insights...Some excellent descriptions of 'mystical experience' are also contained in the film
May 5, 2008, 11:19am
Blogosphere
The Risk Economy
James Howard Kunstler: "As the West's industrial regime sputters toward a cheap-energy-crackup conclusion, there have been attempts to recast what our economy is actually about, how to account for whatever wealth we manage to produce, and project what our society will actually be organized to do in the years ahead.
May 5, 2008, 11:13am
Commentary
The Bush Family's Bad Latin Real Estate Investment
Dave Lindorff: "Back in late 2006, it was widely reported in the Latin American media that President Bush, or perhaps his old man, had bought a 100,000-acre farm in a remote area of Paraguay (which has no extradition treaty with any nation). But now things have changed in Paraguay...
May 4, 2008, 1:22pm
Blogosphere
Black Hills on Table Again
Once again there is talk by non-Indian lawyers to pursure the allocation of monies awarded the tribes of the Great Sioux Nation for the theft of the Black Hills of South Dakota..."One does not sell one's mother." To the Lakota the Black Hills are considered to be Maka Ina, Mother Earth, or Maka Unci, Grandmother Earth.
May 4, 2008, 12:23pm
Articles
US plan to protect right whale from shipping blocked by Cheney
The Independent, UK: Efforts to protect the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale from being killed by ships are being blocked by Vice President Dick Cheney according to leaked documents. A behind the scenes struggle is raging between the White House and US government scientists
May 2, 2008, 10:48am
News
California Teacher fired for refusing to sign loyalty oath
LA Times: Cal State system ousts another instructor who objects on religious grounds to a pledge adopted by California in 1952 to root out communists. “I wanted it on record that I am a pacifist,” Wendy Gonaver said. She wants an apology and a teaching job for next year.
May 2, 2008, 10:07am
Meditations
Why Meditate?
Martin LeFevre: "Living in a cultural desert, as we all do in the West, and as every one increasingly does in this meaningless, consumeristic global society, meditation is the art of digging one's own inner well daily. It's become a matter of survival.
May 1, 2008, 1:59pm
Commentary
The Anti-Empire Report: May 1, 2008
William Blum: "And as long as we're fighting for hopeless causes, let's throw in the demand that corporations involved in driving the cost of oil through the roof - and dragging food costs with it - must either immediately exhibit a conspicuous social conscience or risk being nationalized
May 1, 2008, 1:53pm
Links
Break-ins plague targets of US Attorneys
These crimes raise serious questions about possible use of deliberate intimidation tactics not only because of who the victims are and the already wide criticism of the prosecutions to begin with, but also because...Typically burglars do not break-in only to rummage through documents
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May 1, 2008, 12:09pm
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