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Tips on Cutting Down the Amount of Food You Throw Away

When news first broke on the 40% of perfectly good food we throw away as waste on an annual basis, the shock was enough for the news to stay circulating for a few days -- a feat rare in online journalism these days. If we expand the circle of perpetrators to include other countries, the stats grew e ... More >>

Evening With Dr. Jane Goodall

Smart Meter Resistance Spreads to SoCal: Are New Wireless Meters Spying on You, Making You Sick?

Burbank ACTION​Over 100 worried residents packed into the disco-themed ballroom of Moose Lodge in Glendale last night -- summoned by a growing base of health, privacy and consumer advocates lashing out against California's sketchy new method of measuring household energy use. The new wireless ... More >>

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Jeffrey Vallance on Blinky, the Friendly Hen

Courtesy Marc Foxx William Daniels' "Untitled" oil painting, on view at Marc Foxx Gallery through November 12​ My agenda includes a couple risks -- eight hours of United Nations-style debating and a visit to a temporary hotel room. Then there are the sure bets -- a lecture by an inimitably cle ... More >>

The Whistleblower Review

LEAN, GREEN FIGHTING MACHINE

Thundercats Ho!!!!! New Video of SA-RA Creative Partners Featuring Bass Virtuoso Stephen "Thundercat" Bruner

Thundercats Ho!! New Live Video of SA-RA Creative Partners Featuring Bass Virtuoso Stephen "Thundercat" Bruner

Today in Photographs: April 8, 1948

A Different Kind of Palestinian Rally:  Demonstrators outside City Hall protest U.S. abandonment of the United Nations plan to partition Palestine.Photo: LA Daily News/UCLA CollectionClick image to enlarge

Rated "G" For Globalization

As earlier noted, the 2009 Berlin Film Festival opened with a Hollywood movie (The International), directed by Germany's own Tom Tykwer and filmed in a half-dozen countries around the world, then continued with a French movie (In the Electric Mist) made in the U.S.A. with dialogue spoken in regional ... More >>

Berlin Film Festival: Rated "G" For Globalization

As earlier noted, the 2009 Berlin Film Festival opened with a Hollywood movie (The International), directed by Germany's own Tom Tykwer and filmed in a half-dozen countries around the world, then continued with a French movie (In the Electric Mist) made in the U.S.A. with dialogue spoken in regional ... More >>

Scott Ritter and The Mission (Accomplished)

Empire and its discontents

Indigenous Indignation

“It must be difficult not knowing, whenever there’s construction in the city, if your great-great-great-great- great-grandfather’s skull is going to end up in the bucket of a backhoe.”

Frontline: On Our Watch

The sins of inaction

Dark Continentals

Hollywood’s Africa fetish continues with Beyond the Gates

Deaf & Dead

Waiting for Preval

The would-be president urges calm amid claims of election fraud

Filtered

Bush in Africa:

No-cost compassionate conservatism

Jolt for Bolton

Dressed To Thrill

Pollack’s The Interpreter and the Hungarian first feature Kontroll

Monkey Business

Terminator Genes

Repetition in politics, news, big business and human suffering

Who’s on First?

The Baghdad Hand (Over) Job

Hole in the Sand

Still time for the U.N. to save Iraq

Made In the USA, Part III: US Company Listings A-M

Our Very Own 1914

Bush tries to reorder the world in his declaration of war

Made in the USA

A guide to Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction

Snubbing the U.N.

The cost of waging a lonely war

Made in the USA (Part II)

More on the connection between the U.S., American corporations and Iraq’s weapons programs

The War on Relief

With Iraq in crisis, humanitarian efforts around the globe go on hold

The Truth About Powell

The sins and omissions committed before the United Nations

Missing Evidence

Poking holes in the case for war

Brakes of War

Signs are on that a full-scale invasion of Iraq is off

Peaceful Warmongers

A Baghdad Diary

Journey into the abyss

No Threat

A former weapons inspector rejects Bush's evidence

Waiting for the World

Back to the future with the World Federalists

The Case Against the Anti-War Movement

And against Bush's version of the war

The Case Against the War

Bush is the real menace to world order

Why Johannesburg Matters

Two emerging world governing systems -- one corporate, one basically democratic -- fight for control of your world

Hitting the Streets

The top six demands of anti-globalization protesters

Wilderness Tips

From Karen Carson, Kristin Calabrese, Steven Criqui, Charlie White, Tamara Fites, Mark Housley, more

Small Minds and Arms

The gun lobby goes to war with the U.N.

The Real World Organization

Why being against the WTO isn’t enough

Roots of Terror

The terrible price of independence in East Timor

U.N. Gets Chilly Welcome in Mexico

Government and rebels agree on disdain for global cops

Letters

The War at Home

Local Progressives Talk About Kosovo

It's Hard To Imagine Air Strikes Would Do Much Destroying of Weapons

I Would Prefer Commando Units to Bombing Raids