News
Despite world outcry, Israel launches ground attack on Lebanon
August 4, 2006Only days after an Israeli bomb smashed into a residential building in the southern Lebanon village of Qana, killing at least 62 civilians, 35 of them children — and provoking worldwide shock, horror and outrage —...
Read more
The Middle East in crisis
July 28, 2006As I write, Israeli troops are invading Lebanon on its southern border. No doubt this escalation will heighten the danger of a wider war, one that could involve other state and non-state actors in that region...
Read more
High pesticide exposure found among migrant workers
July 28, 2006RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — It could be a father hugging his children after a day’s work in the tobacco field, or pesticide residue on his clothing washed with family laundry. Maybe it was children playing in...
Read more
The Little Tramp redux
July 28, 2006“We have more power because we know more. They’ve given me earplugs for the noise at least.” The speaker of those words is Venezuelan metalworker Miguel Moreno. He had recently attended a showing of Charlie Chaplin’s...
Read more
News bias in The Associated Press
July 28, 2006A new study conducted at Sonoma State University shows widespread bias in Associated Press (AP) news reports favoring U.S. government positions. On October 25, 2005, the American Civil Liberties Union posted to their website 44 autopsy...
Read more