Tuesday
Sep212010
World Alzheimer Report: Dementia Costs To Exceed $600 Billion In 2010
September 21, 2010 The care of people with dementia is not just a health issue, it is a massive social issue
Forging his way through the predictable UK media censorship: Dr Andrew Wakefield Responds to Measles Outbreak in Swansea
September 21, 2010 Tuesday
Sep212010
George Monbiot: The Short, Happy Life of Climate Change Enlightenment
September 21, 2010 The collapse of the talks at Copenhagen took away all momentum for change and the lobbyists are back in control. So what next?
Tuesday
Sep212010
In U.S. Transition Towns, the Big Challenge is Bringing People Together
September 21, 2010 Michael Brownlee, co-founder of Transition Colorado, says U.S. Transition Towns are based on the original British model and attract the same kind of people. What’s different about the United States—what Brownlee calls “ground zero for climate change”—is that there’s more work to do here than anywhere else to achieve food independence, freedom from fossil fuels, and the network of relationships necessary in a Transition Town.
Monday
Sep202010
Gwynee Dyer: The Millennium Goals
September 20, 2010 On 20-22 September, while the United Nations General Assembly is holding its annual meeting in New York, most of the world's leaders will come together to review progress on the "Millennium Development Goals" that the UN adopted ten years ago. All the anti-poverty campaigners will claim that change has been too little and too slow, but actually it hasn't been bad at all.
Monday
Sep202010
The History Of What Things Cost In America: 1776 to Today
September 20, 2010 The cost of living in America has gone up about fifteen fold since the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776. Of course, not all prices have risen at the same rate.
Monday
Sep202010
Industry has sway over food safety system: study
September 20, 2010 The food industry is jeopardizing U.S. public health by withholding information from food safety investigators or pressuring regulators to withdraw or alter policy designed to protect consumers, said a survey of government scientists and inspectors.
Monday
Sep202010
Michael Klare: China Shakes the World
September 20, 2010 If you want to know which way the global wind is blowing (or the sun shining or the coal burning), watch China. That’s the news for our energy future and for the future of great-power politics on planet Earth. Washington is already watching -- with anxiety.
Monday
Sep202010
David DeGraw: Census Bureau Poverty Rate Drastically Undercounts Severity of Poverty in America
September 20, 2010 While the shocking new poverty statistics from the Census Bureau indicating that a record 43.6 million Americans lived in poverty in 2009 emphatically demonstrates the severity of the economic crisis, the Census is drastically undercounting this demographic. Apparently government poverty statistics are as accurate as their unemployment statistics.
Friday
Sep172010
Robert Parry: This Country Just Can't Deal with Reality Any More
September 17, 2010 As Election Day 2010 approaches – as the United States wallows in the swamps of war, recession and environmental degradation – the consequences of the nation’s three-decade-old decoupling from reality are becoming painfully obvious.
Friday
Sep172010
Number of uninsured skyrockets 4.3 million to record 50.7 million in 2009
September 17, 2010 Big leap points to urgency of enacting single-payer Medicare for all: national doctors' group