American Tap Water: A Toxic History

With the recent uproar over the amount of pharmaceuticals in America’s drinking water, the general public is paying more attention to the toxins lurking in their tap water. The report by the Associated Press National Investigation Team has raised many questions on the nation’s public health standards, but what about the toxins that are deliberately [...]

Winter Soldier

[photo courtesy of questionitnow.org]
No one is covering this – Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans Against the War speak out against the America’s imperial wars, and the hearings do not make a ripple in the corporate media.
Here are voices from the hearings, thanks to Democracy Now!
Part 1
Part 2 
Part 3

Fishing industry on the verge of collapse

Ever since humans picked up their first fishing poles (or spears) the state of the world’s marine life has been in decline. The damage started slowly, but our technology evolved as we learned to use radar and scrape the sea floors with huge nets, yielding fantastic catches from the plentiful ocean.
Now, armed with unimaginable accuracy [...]

Impunity on the border

[photo courtesy of the Associated Press]
The same rules apply to law enforcement in Queens and along the U.S.-Mexico border, apparently.
Yesterday, a judge declared a mistrial in the case of Border Patrol Officer Nicholas Corbett, who in January 2007 shot and killed an unarmed Mexican immigrant who was crossing the border through an isolated stretch of [...]

Big Coal Against the Ropes – From Kansas to Wall Street

So far, 2008 has been a rough year for the coal industry. Just 24 hours after Bush touted clean coal in his January State of the Union address, the Department of Energy pulled the plug on the ambitious FutureGen project, which aimed to build the first zero-emissions coal plant.
Days later, major banks such as Citigroup [...]