by Seth Michaels, Mar 19, 2008 Why is the U.S. economy failing working people? It’s a failure of public policy at the highest levels. The solution is to push hard for a new agenda that puts working people first, according to panelists at “The Economics of Shared Prosperity,” a session at Take Back America […]
How Do You "Open" A Pomegranate?
Browsing through the supermarket ice cream freezer for your usual vanilla or chocolate chip, some new flavors catch your eye: California pomegranate, vanilla with pomegranate swirl, pomegranate with dark chocolate chips. Being adventurous, you schlepp one home. Mmm. Delicious. Fast forward to next week. You’re shopping in the fruit and vegetable section when you […]
Belgrade, Crimes Against Humanity, and Introspection
Following the declaration of independence by Kosovo, the Serbians protested violently by attacking the US and its European allies’ embassies in Belgrade on 21 February. It was wrong in principle on the side of the Serbians to attack the embassies on the one hand and it was equally unjust for the US, European Union and […]
Home-Based Business Ideas
Say good-bye to the Dilbert cartoons pinned up on your corporate cubicle wall … to a commute that stretches out longer than it takes an astronaut to orbit the earth … to one more day stuck at the freeway ramp behind 55 other nail-biting commuters. Say hello—with several million other Americans—to your own home-based business! […]
US Al-Qaeda Militant Urges Attacks On Bush During Middle East Visit
The man is named Adam Gadahn, who is born in California. Gadahn had urged the Islamist militants to attack President Bush with bombs when he visits the Middle East. “Welcome him not with flowers and applause but with bombs and traps,” Gadahn had said on a video posted on the internet on Sunday. It was […]
Culture Clash in Open-Air African Markets
Europeans who come to West Africa at first cannot understand the African custom of bargaining before buying or selling. They start off by buying at the price asked in the market, and then when they learn from friends that they have paid far too much, they are angry at having been cheated. Later on, when […]