The Untold Story of Women’s Resistance Behind Bars Book Review: RESISTANCE BEHIND BARS The Struggles of Incarcerated Women by Victoria Law PM Press, 2009 by Hans Bennett, AlterNet “When I was 15, my friends started going to jail,” says Victoria… Read moreBEYOND ATTICA
Continue ReadingBEYOND ATTICALandfilling old gas-guzzlers for new gas-guzzlers isn’t green—it’s a subsidy by Michael I. Niman, ArtVoice, Buffalo, NY Let’s be honest and get one simple fact straight. The Obama administration’s “Cash for Clunkers” program is a $1 billion subsidy to the… Read moreA BILLION BUCKS FOR CLUNKERS AIN’T GREEN
Continue ReadingA BILLION BUCKS FOR CLUNKERS AIN’T GREENClimate Bill Offers Pseudo-Solutions by Brian Tokar, Toward Freedom A palpable sense of triumph accompanied the passage last month of a first-of-its-kind global warming bill in the US House of Representatives. Rep. Henry Waxman of California, one of the bill’s… Read morePOLITICS-AS-USUAL WHILE THE PLANET BURNS
Continue ReadingPOLITICS-AS-USUAL WHILE THE PLANET BURNSMalthus, Biofuels and Free-Market Environmentalism by Carmelo Ruiz Marrero, World War 4 Report The Washington DC-based Worldwatch Institute is no ordinary environmental organization. Founded by environmental maverick Lester Brown, a man hailed by the Washington Post as “one of the… Read moreWORLDWATCH PLAYS ALONG
Continue ReadingWORLDWATCH PLAYS ALONGby Nikolas Kozloff, Señor Chichero When the Honduran military overthrew the democratically elected government of Manuel Zelaya there might have been a sigh of relief in the corporate board rooms of Chiquita banana. Earlier this year the Cincinnati-based fruit company… Read moreHONDURAS: THE BANANA CONNECTION —AGAIN
Continue ReadingHONDURAS: THE BANANA CONNECTION —AGAINU.S. Right Mobilizes to Support Putsch by Bill Weinberg, World War 4 Report It’s a sign of hope that no nation on earth has yet recognized the de facto regime that took power in Honduras June 28, when the military… Read moreOTTO REICH’S FINGERPRINTS ON HONDURAS COUP?
Continue ReadingOTTO REICH’S FINGERPRINTS ON HONDURAS COUP?At the South American summit in Quito, Hugo Chávez warned that the “winds of war are beginning to blow” on the continent—a day after accusing Colombian troops of a border incursion.
