by Steve Almond November 16, 2009 I HAVE a 3-year-old daughter and a 1-year-old son, so I spend a lot of time these days at the playground. Which is fine. I like playgrounds. I like any place where it’s possible to make monkey noises without anyone thinking less of you. The one challenging thing about the playground, though, is [...]

por Antonio Peredo Leigue 21 de octubre, 2009 Tenía que ser como fue: en Cochabamba. En el centro de Bolivia, que es el centro de Sudamérica. Fue la VII Cumbre de la ALBA. Siete países signaron el acta. Así se proclamaron los derechos de la Madre Tierra. No se trata del medio ambiente. No es cosa de reducir [...]

by Sandy LeonVest October 23, 2009 It was only a matter of time before the nation’s skyrocketing unemployment translated into new recruits for the most powerful military force in the world. With the official US unemployment rate at 10 percent and climbing (that’s more than 15 million people struggling to put food on the table) and nearly double [...]

Ver abajo sobre el Día Internacional de Acción Climática en Costa Rica este 24 de octubre ¿QUE ES 350? 350 es el número más importante del mundo, el límite máximo seguro de dióxido de carbono en la atmósfera, según los científicos. Hace dos años, después de que los principales climatólogos observaran el rápido derretimiento del hielo en el Ártico y [...]

English (original) version below Londres, 1898; Kabul, 2009 por Tom Engelhardt 8 de octubre, 2009 Un párrafo común y corriente en un artículo en mi periódico local me llamó la atención hace poco. Llevaba el título “Casa Blanca cree que Karzai será reelegido,” pero a medio camino Helene Cooper y Mark Landler del New York Times se volvían a [...]

Keith Olbermann on what really matters when it comes to health reform by Keith Olbermann October 7, 2009 Since August 23rd of this year I have interacted daily with our American Health Care system and often done so to the exclusion of virtually all other business. It is not undercover reporting, and it is not an expert study [...]

by Tom Jacobs September 30, 2009 Two new studies suggest older people have difficulty suppressing stereotypes, which means many may become prejudiced against their will. There are a lot of clichés thrown around about the elderly, but one that seems to be true — or at least is backed up by research — is the belief they tend [...]

por Stephen Leahy UXBRIDGE, Canadá, 2 oct (IPS) – Alimentos exorbitantemente caros y millones más de hambrientos serán parte del oscuro futuro de la humanidad si no se toman acciones concertadas contra el cambio climático y se hacen más inversiones en agricultura, alertaron expertos esta semana. La devastadora sequía que padece en estos momentos África oriental, donde [...]

by Yves Housson September 30, 2009 For writer and philosopher Hélène Cixous, the wave of suicides at France Télécom is “a metaphor for the cruelty that is also manifested elsewhere.” The “dehumanization machine” does not spare the university either. Yves Housson for L’Humanité: The series of suicides at France Télécom has aroused barely any reaction within the intellectual [...]

by Pierre Dardot and Christian Laval April 3, 2009 Perhaps the economic catastrophe is dissipating the most glaring illusions about the self-regulating market, making global capitalism’s doctrinarians a bit less arrogant, provoking the spectacular conversions of some “leaders” who would urgently like to make us forget their previous blindness. But the catastrophe has not yet brought about the [...]