International
Israels new right-wing leaders pose threat to Israel itself, critics say
April 15, 2009Israel’s new right-wing government headed by Benjamin Netanyahu and, in particular, statements by his far-right foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman, have raised considerable alarm, both within Israel and internationally.
Read moreAmazons epic failure
April 15, 2009I never thought I’d see the day when the children’s book Heather Has Two Mommies was considered more “adult” than Playboy: The Complete Centerfolds, but thanks to Amazon.com I have. In what the company has called...
Read moreA first for N. America: A union contract at Wal-Mart
April 14, 2009Canadian workers at the Wal-Mart store in Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec became the only Wal-Mart employees in North America to be covered by a union contract when an arbitrator April 8 ruled in their favor more than four...
Read moreCharting the path to a nuke-free world
April 14, 2009Just days after Barack Obama pledged, during his first international trip as president, that the U.S. will “seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons,” six U.S. environmental and nuclear policy organizations issued...
Read morePenguins & melting ice: Arctic, Antarctic actors & barometers of globes future
April 14, 2009The North and South Poles are at the center of the earth. The earth’s survival, that is. The two polar regions, the Arctic and Antarctic, are “actors and barometers” of rapid climate and environmental changes that...
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