Posted Mar 24, 2005 | Rolling Stone
by JAMES HOWARD KUNSTLER
A few weeks ago, the price of oil ratcheted above fifty-five dollars a barrel, which is about twenty dollars a barrel more than a year ago. The next day, the oil story was buried on page six of the New York Times business section. Apparently, the [...]
22 March 2005 | Venezuelanalysis.com
by Jonah Gindin
Philip Agee is a former CIA operative who left the agency in 1967 after becoming disillusioned by the CIA’s support for the status quo in the region. Says Agee, ?I began to realize that what I and my colleagues had been doing in Latin America in the CIA was no [...]
[ This is a chilling piece, drawing out a common parallel in uncommon detail. Thanks to J. Mock for passing it along. --BL ]
22 February 2005 | CommonDreams.org
by Thom Hartmann
This weekend – February 27th – is the 72nd anniversary, but the corporate media most likely won’t cover it. The generation that experienced this history firsthand is [...]
22 March 2004 | World Socialist Web Site
by Jamie Chapman and Kate Randall
Two recent reports cast light on the impact of growing social
inequality in the US. The first, the annual inventory of the very
rich compiled this month by the business magazine Forbes,
tracks the wealth of the world’s billionaires, and their
increasing numbers in the US. The [...]
PHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY, accessed 21 March 2005 through their http://www.mercuryaction.org website
Recent studies surveying contaminant levels in farmed and
wild-caught salmon have shown that, on average, farmed salmon contain
substantially higher concentrations of a variety of persistent organic
contaminants such as PCBs, dioxins, and pesticides. These studies
indicate that wild salmon, being generally lower in toxic contaminants, is a
healthier [...]
4 March 2004 | Scripps Howard News Service
by Joan Lowy
You are what you eat, even if you’re a fish. And fish that thrive on veggies tend to be less toxic than flesh eaters.
With new studies showing PCBs, dioxin, and pesticides in salmon and mercury in canned tuna, consumers who find themselves struggling to figure out [...]
[ True to the pattern, ignorant Americans may again be duped by short-sighted politicians under the sway of large corporations which aim to hide the unsustainability of our energy consumption as long as possible. While recent U.S. government claims suggest that drilling for oil in the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge will yield "up to" 1.4 [...]
12 March 2005 | World Socialist Web Site
by Bill Van Auken
Dozens of Haitian men, women and children drowned when their rickety homemade craft went down in the waters of the Caribbean, the Associated Press reported Thursday. Some 50 people had crowded onto the boat, which sank under their weight.
Three survivors made it ashore to tell [...]
by Brendan Lalor
Thanks to Oklahoma City writer Bob Nichols, I heard about the controversial U.N. anti-landmine campaign ad/PSA that CNN and other networks don’t want to air. The ad is well worth a look (click here); and here’s a piece on the topic from WorldNetDaily (6 March 2005).
[ FCNL is the Friends (Quaker) Committee on National Legislation. --BL ]
FCNL Email | 11 March 2005
Tax day is April 15. Did you know that about 42% of our income taxes this year will go for military purposes?
This figure is computed based on federal funds outlays in fiscal year 2004 (FY04) of $1.7 trillion. The federal [...]