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  • The Edible Schoolyard
    Chez Panisse Foundation
    This video was created by Mario de La Vega to promote the Edible Schoolyard book, which chronicles the integration of academics with growing, cooking, and sharing wholesome, delicious food over the last 13 years. With inspiring images of the garden and kitchen—and their young caretakers—Edible Schoolyard is at once a... » read this article
  • Bjorn Jorgensen, Norway
    Telegraph (UK)
    Editor's Note: The northern lights, or aurora borealis, are seen when the solar wind stream hits Earth's magnetic field, sparking bright auroras around the Arctic Circle. The photos and comments beneath them are by photographer Bjorn Jorgensen who lives in Tromso in northern Norway. Kevin, a friend and reader of Axis of Logic... » read this article
  •   HEARTLINES NEEDED   How breezily most media headlines spin people's heads in another direction— one top-story, one-stop-shopping shifting attention when the questions to ask are: who decides the headlines? how many kooks are spoiling the broth? who's washing the dishes? what neighbor needs a hand carrying groceries? what neighbor... » read this article
  • Gary Wilson
    Workers World
    Since mid-January, hardly a day has gone by without some report in the big-business-controlled media about China and censorship of the Internet. The primary reports were about Google’s declaration in early January that it may stop complying with Chinese laws that are meant to block illegal Internet activity, including spying.... » read this article
  • Sam Daly
    It's Getting Hot In Here
    Environmental NGO's have been uncritically thumping the green tech funding plank and they're generating funding that could be harder to hold onto than a fistful of sand in the Iraqi oilfields. There's a coup underway in the environmental movement. But the golpistas (coup-makers) aren't exactly the usual suspects. They're not... » read this article
  • Ma'an News Agency
    News Article
    Ramallah – Ma'an – Attorney of Bil'in local council, Michael Sfard, said on Saturday that Israeli authorities informed him of the new route of the separation wall, adjusted according to a decision by the Israeli Supreme Court of Justice in 2007. "We were not convinced that it was vital for... » read this article
  • Emile Schepers
    People's World
    The government of Haiti is indefinitely postponing the legislative elections scheduled for February 28 because the infrastructure of the country has been so thoroughly wrecked by the January 12 earthquake that it is impossible to carry out the mechanics of the poll. As occasional survivors are still being found, the... » read this article
  • W.S. Merwin
    The Shadow of Sirius
    "One of the Butterflies" (from The Shadow of Sirius) The trouble with pleasure is the timing it can overtake me without warning and be gone before I know it is here it can stand facing me unrecognized while I am remembering somewhere else in another age or someone not seen... » read this article
  • Ron Andreas
    Aletho News
    In the late 1960’s the US, through conventional hybridization techniques, succeeded in creating new types of corn dramatically increasing yield per acre by reducing the space required per plant as well as increasing the number of ears per stalk. This development was seen as a phenomenal opportunity for the nation... » read this article
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  • Useful Lies, Useless Lives
    “For wicked men are found among my people; they lurk like fowlers lying in wait. They set a trap; they catch men” - Jeremiah 5:26-29, Hebrew Old Testament “Violence can only be concealed by a...
  • Watt A Hero?
    Watt A Hero?   Does the name of Army Pfc Justin Watt ring a bell?   I doubt it.  But even if your bells start ringing I bet the word “hero” doesn't come to mind. Lets...
  • Beasts in Samaritan Clothing
    The long history that “binds” the US and Haiti together! "And all of you – whether French and English, Russians and Germans, Italians and Americans – we have seen you all together once before in...
  • Turkey widens aid efforts for Haiti
    Sunday, January 17, 2010 PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti Turkey sends 10 tons of additional aid material to Haiti, bringing its total assistance dispatched to the poor Caribbean nation to 50 tons. DHA photo Turkey widened its efforts...
  • 2050: The Re-Birth of a New Just Nation
    “But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such...
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  • Khadr Case Raises Broad Questions on Child Detainees
    Canada's top judges expressed such concern in a Jan. 29 decision, arguing that Khadr has endured and continued to experience violations of his rights under the constitutional Canadian Charter of Rights after the U.S. military...
  • Seeking A Kinder, Gentler Image For Israel
    Israel submitted its formal response last month to a U.N.-commissioned probe that accused both Israel and Hamas of war crimes during last winter's war in the Gaza Strip. Israel defended its conduct and pledged to...
  • GREECE: New Migrant Law Tough But Respects Rights
    The newly elected Pan-Hellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) government's plans to move legislation, that will greatly affect migrants and refugees, have been both welcomed and criticised by rights organisations and activists. The interior ministry is ready...
  • Israel Admits Detention of International Activists Illegal
    A state prosecutor admitted before the Supreme Court today that the Immigration Police illegally detained the two international activists arrested yesterday in a pre-dawn raid on the International Solidarity Movement's  Ramallah offices. The two will...
  • Berlusconi, Israel, and The Big Brother
    After the three-day visit of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to Israel and a short visit to the Occupied Palestinian Territories, a judgement is due. Berlusconi came with a large Italian ministry delegation (Foreign Minister...
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