Article Listing
-
EDITORIAL: Privatization = 250,000 displaced New Orleanians
May 4, 2007Some 250,000 refugees from Hurricane Katrina still cannot go home, nearly two years after the levees broke. The Rev. Jesse Jackson and New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin led a march April 28 by former city residents...
Read more -
Forget the meat! Why an animal-based diet is hazardous to your health
May 4, 2007Slowly the truth is emerging that diet is decisive to health. Out of a fog of deliberate confusion and fierce resistance put up by the food and pharmaceutical industries and their allies in government, academia and...
Read more -
THIS WEEK IN LABOR
May 4, 2007Steelworkers urge Drummond probe United Steelworkers President Leo Gerard has urged U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to join his counterpart in Colombia, Attorney General Mario Iguarian, in investigating the links between paramilitaries and Drummond Coal Co....
Read more -
Mississippi on the mind and Cuba
May 4, 2007In a front-page story April 22, The New York Times reported that infant mortality rates (IMR) in Mississippi and other Southern states are rising. The IMR measures the number of first-year infant deaths per thousand births....
Read more -
Human rights group hits Wal-Mart for abuse
May 4, 2007Human Rights Watch issued a report May 1 that said Wal-Mart’s aggressive efforts to keep out labor unions often violate federal law and infringe on workers’ rights. The human rights organization said that when Wal-Mart stores...
Read more