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Monsanto's Harvest of Fear Tuesday, May 6, 2008 :Monsanto already dominates America's food chain with its genetically modified seeds. Now it has targeted milk production. Just as frightening as the corporation's tactics- ruthless legal battles against small farmers- is its decades-long history of toxic contamination. We speak to James Steele, contributing editor at Vanity Fair....
Posted: Tue, May 6, 2008 8:08am PDT
Report From Burmese-Thai Border On The Devastating Cyclone That Has Killed Over 15,000 People In Burma Tuesday, May 6, 2008 :In Burma, at least 15,000 people have now died following a devastating cyclone. Another 30,000 people are still missing. Aid agencies estimate as many as 1 million people may be without shelter. The storm hit Burma on Friday night. David Scott Mathieson joins us on the telephone from the Thai-Burma border. He is Burma's consultant to Human Rights Watch....
Posted: Tue, May 6, 2008 8:07am PDT
Protect Sacred Sites: Stop Toxic Dumping on O’odham Lands 
On March 29, 2008 Traditional O’odham leaders and International Supporters arrived in the small village of Quitovac in the Northern Sonoran State of Mexico to honor the land, the sky, the water, and all life, and to continue organizing to stop the building of a toxic waste dump that’s planned to be placed just a few miles from one of the most sacred ceremony sites of the O’odham....
Posted: Mon, May 5, 2008 5:34pm PDT
Somalia: Situation Report No. 17 – 02 May 2008 Main Developments
The Food Security Analysis Unit (FSAU) confirms that the humanitarian situation in Somalia is deteriorating at an accelerated pace due to soaring food prices, deepening drought and a delayed and poor start to the season rains (April to June). The number of people in need of assistance in Somalia has increased to 2.6 million people (35% of the total population), an increase of more than 40% since January 2008. This increase is mainly due to addition of 600,000 urban poor (...
Posted: Sat, May 3, 2008 4:18pm PDT
Agricultural corporations boast huge profits in midst of food crisis Friday, May 2, 2008 :As inflation and shortages expose billions to hunger worldwide, agricultural giant Archer-Daniels-Midland Company revealed a 42 percent leap in quarterly profits. The announcement follows similarly skyrocketing earnings reports from half a dozen other agribusinesses and suppliers, as well as from major oil companies BP, Shell, and Exxon....
Posted: Fri, May 2, 2008 7:43am PDT
Back From Haiti, Rev. Jesse Jackson Calls for Emergency Food Aid to a Starving Nation Devastated by Longtime U.S.-Led Interfe Thursday, May 1, 2008 :Reverend Jesse Jackson has just returned from Haiti, where the World Food Program is warning of a "major crisis" if international donors fail to help feed Haiti's poor. Prices of rice, beans and cooking oil, have doubled in the past few months. The soaring food prices have had a devastating effect -- two-thirds of Haitians live on less than a dollar a day and 47 percent are undernourished. We speak to Rev. Jackson about the U.S. responsibility to feed a nation long targ...
Posted: Thu, May 1, 2008 8:10am PDT
Aspartame Press Conference, Hawaii State Capitol, May 1, 11:00 to Noon, Bill Deagle, M.D. Aspartame press conference will tell how a deadly addictive excitoneurotoxic carcinogenic drug that virtually interacts with all drugs and vaccines is masquerading as an additive. Once listed with the pentagon in an inventory of prospective biochemical warfare weapons submitted to Congress it has caused epidemics of diabetes, obesity, sudden death, birth defects and MS. FDA revoked the petition for approval and Don Rumsfeld got it marketed with help from President Reagan....
Posted: Wed, Apr 30, 2008 11:53am PDT
All Out to May Day 2008 March for Immigrant Worker Rights! On May Day 2008, National Immigrant Solidarity Network is calling for a multi-ethnic, decentralized, multi-topic and multi-tactic national day of mobilization to support immigrant workers rights....
Posted: Wed, Apr 30, 2008 11:10am PDT
Rising Health Care Costs: the tsunami that never ends 
The giant wave soon will engulf us all.
People just can't afford the rising costs of health care!...
Posted: Wed, Apr 30, 2008 3:53am PDT
Food distribution halted, cooking gas running out in Gaza JERUSALEM/GAZA, 28 April (IRIN) - The UN has stopped distributing food in the Gaza Strip as its main agencies have run out of fuel for vehicles. To make matters worse, many bakeries in the enclave were closed on 28 April as they had run out of gas....
Posted: Tue, Apr 29, 2008 7:33am PDT
Flag pins don''t cover hypocrisy Saturday, April 26, 2008 : A disturbing study released last week by the RAND Corporation says about 300,000 service members and veterans nearly one in five of the 1.6 million U.S. troops who have served in Iraq or Afghanistan acknowledge experiencing major depression or post-traumatic stress disorder. The study also says some 320,000 troops have returned with signs of traumatic brain injury, or TBI, which may be hard to recognize or to distinguish from psychological injury....
Posted: Sun, Apr 27, 2008 10:34am PDT
US: Emails suggest Veterans Administration cover-up of suicide rate Saturday, April 26, 2008 :Internal emails from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) turned over to a federal district court in San Francisco this week reveal that the agencys mental health unit saw a staggering 1,000 suicide attempts every month among veterans receiving government care last year. emails also indicated that among all US veterans, the VA was aware of a suicide rate of 6,570 per year, or 18 suicides every day on average....
Posted: Sat, Apr 26, 2008 8:43am PDT
India fights soaring food prices Saturday, April 26, 2008 : Rising prices of flour and other essential foods hurt millions of families, and vendors, like this man. India has millions of "micro-venders" who make their living selling food on the street. Food prices are soaring around the world. Long lines for rations of rice or wheat flour snake through cities and towns across Asia, Africa, the Caribbean and the Americas....
Posted: Sat, Apr 26, 2008 8:37am PDT
Global food crisis grips Latin America Friday, April 25, 2008 :The Brazilian government Wednesday announced the temporary suspension of rice exports, as the commoditys price hit a record high of $25 per hundredweight on the futures markets....
Posted: Fri, Apr 25, 2008 7:59am PDT
The U.S. Role in Haiti's Food Riots Thursday, April 24, 2008 :As people around the world continue to protest the soaring prices of basic food items, the World Food Program has described the crisis as a silent tsunami. The head of the Food and Agriculture Organization blamed the current global food crisis on ?inappropriate? policy decisions over the past two decades. Nowhere is this more clear than in Haiti, where hungry people are rioting in the streets because they cannot afford to buy rice. Haiti imports most of its rice from...
Posted: Thu, Apr 24, 2008 7:34am PDT
Up the Yangtze: Documentary Takes on Social Impact of Three Gorges Dam in China Thursday, April 24, 2008 :The Three Gorges dam along China?s Yangtze river is the world?s largest hydroelectric project and is due to be completed in 2009. Widely touted as a feat of modern engineering, the dam was supposed to stop flooding along the river and provide clean energy to fuel China?s economic boom. But it has also gained notoriety as an environmental and human catastrophe. "Up the Yangtze" is a critically acclaimed new documentary about the social impact of the Three Gorges dam. ...
Posted: Thu, Apr 24, 2008 7:33am PDT
Financial speculators reap profits from global hunger Thursday, April 24, 2008 :A series of reports in the international media have drawn attention to the role of professional speculators and hedge funds in driving up the price of basic commoditiesin particular, foodstuffs. The sharp increase in food prices in recent months has led to protests and riots in a number of countries across the globe....
Posted: Thu, Apr 24, 2008 7:04am PDT
Evidence Once Again Shows Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage Programs Don't Work Wednesday, April 23, 2008 :...
Posted: Wed, Apr 23, 2008 7:28am PDT
Sludge Tested As Lead-Poisoning Fix in Poor, Black Neighborhoods Wednesday, April 23, 2008 :Lawmakers and the NAACP are calling for an investigation into reports that federally funded scientific experiments in 2000 spread sewage sludge on yards in poor, black neighborhoods to test if it could fight lead poisoning in children. The Associated Press reported Sunday that researchers spread a mix of human and industrial wastes from sewage treatment plants on the lawns of nine low-income families in Baltimore and a vacant lot next to an elementary school in East...
Posted: Wed, Apr 23, 2008 7:26am PDT
Anti-Hunger Protests Rock Haiti 
Demonstrations that started in Le Cayes on Thursday, April 3rd, against soaring food prices spread across Haiti to Petit-Goagve, Gonaïves, Aquin and, by April 7, to the capital, Port-au-Prince. Anger over rising prices has been building for many months with basic food stuffs increasingly out of reach for the poor. Tires were set ablaze in the streets and thrown together to form barricades that paralyzed traffic for days....
Posted: Wed, Apr 23, 2008 3:40am PDT
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