– by Jennifer Brea … when my turn comes into the air I will raise up a cry so violent that I will spatter the sky utterly and by my shredded branches and by the insolent jet of my solemn wounded bole I shall command the islands to exist – from “Lost Body”, by Aimé Césaire, trans. […]
China: Carrefour Under Boycott Threat
by Bob Chen Carrefour has been rolled into a campaign mixed up with both boycott and anti-boycott. Recently, a widely circulated message writes 我们希望您至少在5月1日这一天抵制家ä¹ç¦ï¼Œè®©5月1日家ä¹ç¦ç©ºè¡è¡çš„å–场å‘è¥¿æ–¹ä¼ è¾¾ä¸€ä¸ªä¿¡æ¯ï¼šä¸å›½ ä¸å¯è¾±ï¼ä¸å›½äººæ°‘ä¸å¯æ¬ºï¼ 抵制家ä¹ç¦çš„活动将在全国å„地展开，期待您的å‚与ï¼è°¢è°¢æ‚¨ã€‚ We hope you are able to boycott Carrefour at least on 1 May, to deliver, by the empty Carrefour that day, one message to the western world: Chinese shouldn’t […]
Brazil: Bloggers United Against WordPress Ban
by Paula Góes The Brazilian blogosphere has not quite yet recovered from its last fright and there is already another threat on the way: a blanket ban on blogs hosted on WordPress.com after a judicial court passed an order to close down a specific blog. Gabriela Zabo [pt] explains why: O motivo é uma decisão judicial expedida em março, que […]
Carbon Dioxide Doesn’t Have A Lot to Do with Climate Change or Warming
Yet another study conducted by atmospheric researchers within the last two years concludes that atmospheric CO2 plays at most only a minor role in climate change. There are a number of salient points that the authors delineated in support of their conclusion, which they published in April of 2006. For one thing, measurements conclude that […]
Don’t Believe Wall Street Hype About Social Security
by Mike Hall Earlier this week, the Social Security Board of Trustees released the 65th annual report on the program’s financial status. And on cue, the Bush administration and the Wall Street-knows-best crowd—now joined by Sen. John McCain(who acknowledges ” economics is something I’ve never really understood as well as I should”)—used the occasion to push for […]
The Coming Years
Things just may begin to appear as if we human beings are bent on a sort of mass suicide. Yet given the chance, there’s another way to voyage through prospective hard times ahead sans the adjective, grim, being highlighted. by Donald Croft Brickner Premise: Some really dark days lie ahead of us here […]