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Webバージョン  |  アップデート設定  |  登録解除 いいね ツイート 転送 http://endofsecrets.blogspot.com Food Sovereignty: Think Globally, Eat Locally Posted by andrea on 18 February, 2013 Tory Field Beverly Bell The first group of protestors at Occupy Wall Street publically delivered 23 complaints, outlining the ways in which corporations control our daily lives. Number four asserted, “They have poisoned the food supply through negligence and undermined the farming system through monopolization.” read more Why the Canadian Right's 'Defense Lobby' Wants Another War Posted by lauren on 18 February, 2013 Steven Staples The generals have a big problem. The fighting in Afghanistan is over for Canada, and the thousands of recruits they armed, and the fleets of planes, helicopters and tanks they bought, have nowhere to go but home. (Photo: lafrancevi via Flickr)Since 9/11 the military budget has ballooned to its highest level since the Second World War, surpassing the height of the Cold War in adjusted dollars. read more Meet the New CISPA. Same as the Old CISPA. Posted by andrea on 18 February, 2013 Josh Levy Last year, thanks to a public outcry, the effort to pass overreaching cybersecurity legislation stalled in the Senate. Now supporters have reintroduced the House version of that legislation — the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA). read more How a Washington Global Torture Gulag Was Turned Into the Only Gulag-Free Zone on Earth Posted by Craig Brown on 18 February, 2013 Greg Grandin (Max Fisher — The Washington Post) read more Sea Shepherd: Defending the Integrity of the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary Posted by lauren on 18 February, 2013 Paul Watson I don't think that there is a more isolated, more remote, or more forbidding place on this planet than where we find ourselves at this moment. read more The Lamest Excuses Money Can Buy Posted by lauren on 18 February, 2013 Paul Buchheit As we try to grasp the reasoning behind cuts to life-saving programs while billion-dollar incomes and trillion-dollar profits are being made, we must understand that extreme wealth deadens parts of the brain. Empathy and honesty go first. read more The Premises and Purposes of American Exceptionalism Posted by Craig Brown on 18 February, 2013 Glenn Greenwald A US flag waves within the razor wire-lined compound of Camp Delta prison at Guantánamo Bay in 2006. (Brennan Linsley/Reuters) read more Another Side of the Immigration Debate: Harvesting NAFTA's Crops Posted by andrea on 18 February, 2013 Jill Richardson Until a few years ago, Rosa Acosta had never even seen a flush toilet. She raised her 12 children in a tiny adobe home in rural Jalisco, Mexico. Several of her kids left it to work in the United States. One son, who left at age 12 to earn money as a farmworker in California, returned home to Rosa and his siblings after only a year. Another, her oldest, still works in California’s fields. Neither crossed the border legally. read more Profiting From Human Misery Posted by andrea on 18 February, 2013 Chris Hedges Marela, an undocumented immigrant in her 40s, stood outside the Elizabeth Detention Center in Elizabeth, N.J., on a chilly afternoon last week. She was there with a group of protesters who appear at the facility’s gates every year on Ash Wednesday to decry the nation’s immigration policy and conditions inside the center. She was there, she said, because of her friend Evelyn Obey. read more A Great Day for the Climate Movement Posted by jon on 18 February, 2013 Bill McKibben Today was the day. Finally, powerfully, decisively -- the movement to stop climate change has come together. This was the biggest climate change rally in US history. By our count, 50,000 people gathered by the Washington Monument and then marched past the White House, demanding that President Obama block the Keystone XL pipeline and move forward toward climate action. read more 登録変更 | 登録解除

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