Population growth of India and China by Polly Mann March 2, 2012 Its developers boast it is the world's largest standalone building and it's going up in Chengdu in southwest China - a genuine “sign of the times.” The New Century Global Centre will house two 1,000-room five-star hotels, an ice rink,a luxury Imax More
99 or One By Malia Burkhart February 23, 2012 99 or One At the “Occupy Re-Gathering” this past weekend, the facilitator told us to raise our hands if we are part of the 99%. (which I did)…. then, as a joke, the facilitator asked us to raise our hands if we are part More
Protesters Occupying Monsanto Corp. Arrested Anthony Gucciardi 4 March 2012 Nation of Change “Police threatened protesters with arrest if they did not move away from the doors, and 12 were ultimately arrested. According to the report, 10 were arrested for ‘blocking the entrance’ and 2 were arrested for crossing a police line.” Taking More
April 9-15, 2012 — 100,000 Americans Will Train for Non-Violent Direct Action The 99% Spring Published on Wednesday, February 15, 2012 by Common Dreams TO: America RE: The 99% Spring Things should never have reached this point. Click here to sign up for the 99% Spring! Every day, the American Dream seems a little farther away. More of More
A project of The Nation Institute Tomgram: Engelhardt, Kicking Down the World’s Door Posted by Tom Engelhardt February 5, 2012 TomDispatch [Note for TomDispatch Readers: Just a reminder for those planning their week: Jeremy Scahill, one of the best investigative journalists in the business, and I will be talking together on stage at New York University’s More
Tomgram: Christian Parenti, Big Storms Require Big Government Posted by Christian Parenti at 9:11am, January 26, 2012 TomDispatch At some basic level, climate change shouldn’t be hard to grasp. Fossil-fuel burning — the essence of our civilization since the industrial revolution — dumps prodigious amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere. As it happens, 2010 was More
Why Climate Change Will Make You Love Big Government A Secret History of Free Enterprise and the Government That Made It Possible By Christian Parenti TomDispatch Look back on 2011 and you’ll notice a destructive trail of extreme weather slashing through the year. In Texas, it was the driest year ever recorded. An epic drought there killed half More
Tomgram: Ellen Cantarow, An Environmental Occupy Fracks Corporate America Posted by Ellen Cantarow January 22, 2012 Tom Dispatch They say you can’t keep a good man down, but the “good” part of that equation is often negotiable. If you thought you had seen the last of the then-disgraced Newt Gingrich in the 1990s, you know what I More
Tomgram: Michael Klare, Energy Wars 2012 Posted by Michael Klare at 9:37am, January 10, 2012 TomDispatch Last week, the president made a rare appearance at the Pentagon to unveil a new strategic plan for U.S. military policy (and so spending) over the next decade. Let’s leave the specifics to a future TomDispatch post and focus instead on a historical More
ACTION ALERT: Minnesota Public Utilities Commission Hearings on "Hiawatha Project" High Voltage Power Lines January 10th and January 12th, 2012 For the past several years, the Midtown Greenway Coalition has worked with an alliance of other neighborhood and community organizations to oppose the installation of high-voltage power lines in the Midtown Greenway Corridor. See artist's rendering More
FBI Says Activists Who Investigate Factory Farms Can Be Prosecuted as Terrorists WILL POTTER on DECEMBER 20, 2011 Green is the New Red in TERRORISM LEGISLATION This recent investigation of a McDonald’s egg supplier is an example of the type of activism the FBI calls terrorism. The FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force has More
