Category: * Essential Reading

Sustainable agriculture depends on biodiversity

By green_ways on Feb 28, 2007 | In * Essential Reading, *Sustainability

Sustainable agriculture depends on biodiversity Kevin Parris, OECD Agriculture Directorate* Agri-food production relies on biodiversity. Yet farming can weaken it. Increasing food production will mean finding ways of expanding agriculture without u… more »

Washington's $8 Billion Shadow

By admin on Feb 21, 2007 | In * Essential Reading, Politics-Domestic, USA-Fascism

Washington's $8 Billion Shadow Mega-contractors such as Halliburton and Bechtel supply the government with brawn. But the biggest, most powerful of the "body shops"—SAIC, which employs 44,000 people and took in $8 billion last year—sells brainpower, i… more »

Organic challenges conventional for yield potential in current Rodale tests

By green_ways on Feb 17, 2007 | In * Essential Reading, *Sustainability

Organic challenges conventional for yield potential in current Rodale tests Decades of soil improvements produce better soil quality and allow organic corn production to move beyond yield parity, while providing better resilience in drought and wet yea… more »

Is Sustainable Agriculture an Oxymoron?

By green_ways on Feb 12, 2007 | In * Essential Reading, *Climate, *Sustainability

Is Sustainable Agriculture an Oxymoron? by Toby Hemenway Jared Diamond calls it “the worst mistake in the history of the human race.”(1) Bill Mollison says that it can “destroy whole landscapes.”(2) Are they describing nuclear energy? Suburbia? Co… more »

Gas: Iran turns up the heat

By admin on Feb 12, 2007 | In * Essential Reading

Gas: Iran turns up the heat By M K Bhadrakumar Asia Times OL It is seldom that the Russian president is publicly contradicted by officials in Moscow. But in the Russian reaction to Tehran's proposal for formal cooperation among the major gas-produci… more »

Victory Is Not an Option

By admin on Feb 11, 2007 | In * Essential Reading, Politics-Foreign, USA-Imperium, USA-Iraq

Victory Is Not an Option The Mission Can't Be Accomplished -- It's Time for a New Strategy WashingtonPost By William E. Odom Sunday, February 11, 2007; Page B01 The new National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq starkly delineates the gulf that separa… more »

Lieberman And The Palestinian “demographic threat”

By admin on Jan 21, 2007 | In * Essential Reading, WAR

Lieberman And The Palestinian “demographic threat” By Jonathan Cook in Nazareth 01/19/07 "Information Clearing House" -- -- When I published my book Blood and Religion last year, I sought not only to explain what lay behind Israeli policies since… more »

"WIPED OFF THE MAP" - The Rumor of the Century

By admin on Jan 19, 2007 | In * Essential Reading, USA-Imperium

"WIPED OFF THE MAP" - The Rumor of the Century by Arash Norouzi Across the world, a dangerous rumor has spread that could have catastrophic implications. According to legend, Iran's President has threatened to destroy Israel, or, to quote the misquot… more »

Bill Moyers: "This is the moment freedom begins"

By admin on Jan 17, 2007 | In * Essential Reading, Politics-Domestic, USA-Fascism

Bill Moyers: "This is the moment freedom begins" "Big Media is Ravenous. It Never Gets Enough. Always Wants More. And it Will Stop at Nothing to Get It. These Conglomerates are an Empire, and they are Imperial. Virtually everything the average pers… more »

Global warming 'past the point of no return'

By admin on Sep 16, 2005 | In * Essential Reading, *Climate

Global warming 'past the point of no return' By Steve Connor, Science Editor A record loss of sea ice in the Arctic this summer has convinced scientists that the northern hemisphere may have crossed a critical threshold beyond which the climate ma… more »

Four Amendments & a Funeral

By admin on Aug 22, 2005 | In * Essential Reading, Politics-Domestic

Four Amendments & a Funeral A month inside the house of horrors that is Congress By MATT TAIBBI It was a fairy-tale political season for George W. Bush, and it seemed like no one in the world noticed. Amid bombs in London, bloodshed in Iraq,… more »

Fighting Fascism Then, and Now

By admin on Jul 18, 2005 | In * Essential Reading, USA-Fascism

Fighting Fascism Then, and Now By John Pilger 07/17/05 "ICH" - - It was the International Brigades' Memorial Day in Jubilee Park beside the Thames in London. It was a hot day with no breeze, "a Spanish day", one of the Brigaders said. Like the ot… more »

Sorrows Of Empire

By admin on Jul 12, 2005 | In * Essential Reading, USA-Imperium

Sorrows Of Empire Although tyranny, because it needs no consent, may successfully rule over foreign peoples, it can stay in power only if it destroys first of all the national institutions of its own people. Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitariani… more »

By admin on Jul 10, 2005 | In * Essential Reading, Politics-Foreign

Cui Bono Revisited by Butler Shaffer Cui Bono is not the rock musician who fashions himself mankind’s ambassador to the governments of the world. It is, rather, the question asked when an official was murdered in ancient Rome: "who benefit… more »

By admin on Jul 8, 2005 | In * Essential Reading, USA-Fascism

Who Owns The World? by Said Shirazi www.dissidentvoice.org June 2, 2005 ED NOTE: A long article, essential reading. My friend Mike was so upset by the looting of the Baghdad museum two years ago that he stood out in front of the Met with a han… more »

Beijing to invest $100b in Iran oil

By admin on Jul 8, 2005 | In * Essential Reading, Politics-Foreign

Beijing to invest $100b in Iran oil, gas sectors in 25 years By: Tehran Times on: 08.07.2005 [15:20 ] (46 reads) China has announced that its investment in Iran’s oil and gas industries in the next 25 years would touch 100 billion dollars, China D… more »

THE NEW AMERICAN MILITARISM

By admin on Apr 21, 2005 | In * Essential Reading, USA-Fascism, WAR

THE NEW AMERICAN MILITARISM The normalization of war By Andrew J Bacevich At the end of the Cold War, Americans said "yes" to military power. The skepticism about arms and armies that pervaded the American experiment from its founding vanished. Po… more »

Bank says Saudi's top field in decline

By admin on Apr 13, 2005 | In * Essential Reading

Bank says Saudi's top field in decline By Adam Porter in Perpignan, France From Aljazeera ED NOTE: If you have read and understood the material on Peak Oil, then you know that when Saudi's Gharwar field peaks, the world peaks. And the industrial a… more »

It Can Happen Here

By admin on Apr 3, 2005 | In * Essential Reading, USA-Fascism

The Ghost of Vice President Wallace Warns: "It Can Happen Here" by Thom Hartmann The Republican National Committee has recently removed from the top-level pages of their website an advertisement interspersing Hitler's face with those of John Kerry a… more »

A Time to Break Silence

By admin on Mar 28, 2005 | In * Essential Reading, USA-Imperium, WAR

A Time to Break Silence By Rev. Martin Luther King By 1967, King had become the country's most prominent opponent of the Vietnam War, and a staunch critic of overall U.S. foreign policy, which he deemed militaristic. In his "Beyond Vietnam" speech d… more »
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