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Blue Skying Petroleum’s Future
Felix Kramer, founder of the California Cars Initiative, was a keynoter at a recent Houston energy conference sponsored by Rice University’s Baker Institute and ConocoPhillips. Here is the message …
Mexico Not Alone in Jobless Youth Epidemic
If Time magazine had any inkling of sense, it would name the Nini the person of the year for 2010. Just what, you might ask, is a Nini? Adopted …
The Fraudulent Criminalization of Marijuana
For almost 40 years, the United States has waged a war on its own citizens who have used marijuana as a part of a drug culture originally encouraged by …
California’s Proposition 23: The Real Job Killer
[Drafted with Jeremy Brecher] The climate denial lobby behind Proposition 23 in California argues they're fighting to protect jobs by overturning what they like to call California's "Job Killing …
Brazil Election: Lula’s Legacy Set to Propel Dilma Rousseff to Victory
Rio de Janeiro - Brazilians face an unfamiliar ballot today when they enter polling booths to elect a new president. For the first time since the end of the …
Genetically Engineered Salmon an Ambiguous Milestone for Aquaculture
Washington - The march toward domesticating the last wild food source may be about to take a major step forward in Washington - for better or worse. Following a …
Surveillance: America’s Pastime
The dried blood on the concrete floor is there for all to see, a stain forever marking the spot on a Memphis motel balcony where Martin Luther King, Jr. …
William Astore | Our State Department: A Tiny Branch of the Pentagon
Last week, a quotation and a joke captured the zeitgeist of the American moment. The quotation came from Philip J. Crowley, Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, related …
Thousands Rally in DC in a More Diverse Counterpoint to Beck, Tea Party
Washington - Thousands of liberal and labor activists rallied in the nation’s capital on Saturday and in other U.S. cities, calling for young or disillusioned Democrats to vote in …
Come Wake Me Up
A poem I have loved a long time has been swirling in my head these last days, and I have been trying to figure out why. There may be …