Earlier this month, a thirty-four-year-old Chinese computer engineer, Hiu Lui Ng, who overstayed his visa, died in a Rhode Island immigration detention center. He had cancer in his liver, lung and bones, and a fractured spine. Despite repeated complaints of severe pain, Mr. Ng was refused independent medical evaluation by immigration officials. Before Mr. Ng [...]
he Georgian crisis is fast turning into an
opportunity to engage into a large-scale diplomatic/political campaign
against Russia. The question is - does this make any sense? If the goal
is to make Russia change its behavior, what can the West do to actually
make that happen? More generally, what do we want from Russia, and does
it make sense?
Some [...]
During the past generation, the American middle-class family that once could count on hard work and fair play to keep itself financially secure has been transformed by economic risk and new realities. Now a pink slip, a bad diagnosis, or a disappearing spouse can reduce a family from solidly middle class to newly poor in [...]
As John Edwards has become the issue du jour and too many people are
salivating over whether his political career is over, we now have yet
another hypocritical and needless diversion from what is really
important. Just like the recent overexposure of Paris Hilton and
McCain’s passing the buck on his increasingly nasty and spiteful
campaign, none of this [...]
Chevron is being accused of promoting geopolitical blackmail in its efforts to stave off a lawsuit accusing it of contaminating the Ecuadorian rain forest. Nearly 30,000 Amazon residents are seeking $12 billion from Chevron for dumping billions of gallons of toxic oil waste. According to Newsweek, the oil giant is urging the Bush administration to [...]
Bill Moyers was the host of NOW with Bill Moyers for three years, until he came under tremendous pressure by CPB chair Kenneth Tomlinson. Over the past three decades he has become an icon of American journalism. He was one of the organizers of the Peace Corps, a special assistant for Lyndon Johnson, a publisher [...]
A new book by New York Times labor reporter Steven Greenhouse examines how much of the American workforce is working more but earning less. Wages have stagnated, health and pension benefits have grown stingier, and job security has shriveled. Greenhouse joins us to talk about The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker.
LISTENWATCH
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Less than two weeks after Congress granted retroactive immunity to telecoms involved in the Bush spy program, it’s been learned AT&T will be emblazoned on every delegate’s bag at the Democratic National Convention. Like Comcast, Motorola, Coca-Cola, Google and a host of other corporate sponsors, the telecom giant has donated over a million dollars to [...]
Graffiti Charcters are the melting point between Graffiti, Street Art, Comics and Graphic Design.
They have been an integral part of graffiti in the last 40 years, and since the first graffiti - thousands of years ago.
Anyway, enjoy the pictures.
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colin mcdermott
Graffiti Characters
Making sense of the recent national debates over offshore drilling, biofuels, and nuclear power can be a challenge.There’s one issue President Bush and presidential hopefuls John McCain
and Barack Obama all agree on: expanding the use of nuclear power.
President Bush addressed nuclear power at a news conference Tuesday and
hailed it as a way to reduce American [...]
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