disasters
Why is the Mississippi River flooding?
May 12, 2011The right-wing National Review is rushing to instruct us that global warming has nothing to do with the record-breaking Mississippi River flood. Are they right?
Read moreMississippi flood leaves hundreds homeless in Memphis
May 10, 2011Hundreds of families, most of whom did not have flood insurance, have been added to the already swelling numbers of homeless in Memphis and other parts of Shelby County.
Read moreWhat’s going on in Haiti
April 21, 2011In Haiti, where the U.S. government wages what amounts to low-intensity war, the balance of forces does not favor the people.
Read moreOne year after deadly BP explosion, troubles persist
April 20, 2011Today marks one year since 11 workers were killed in the BP Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico.
Read moreLibya and Japan grab Germany’s attention
March 22, 2011Elections in an East German state were largely overshadowed by the news from Japan and, far more, from Libya.
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