| Nov 8, 2013 | Rights / DemocracyAs an aspiring writer and avid reader, I never miss the annual Library of Congress National Book Festival on the National Mall. This year, the best part was seeing one of my favorite authors, Margaret Atwood. Atwood, author of The Blind Assassin, The Handmaid’s...
| Nov 6, 2013 | Roundup|UncategorizedThis week in OtherWords, Sam Pizzigati, William A. Collins, and I point out that this is no time to slash the food stamp program and Jill Richardson explains how a gusher of corporate cash appears to have killed a food-labeling initiative in Washington State. Donald...
| Nov 5, 2013 | Food / FarmingIsn’t it so inspiring to see global corporate giants crush small farmers, stomp on nature, circumvent our laws by hook or crook, and deceive and gouge consumers? Welcome once again to the phantasmagoric world of DNA manipulators. In particular, this branch of...
| Oct 30, 2013 | Roundup|UncategorizedThis week in OtherWords, Jim Hightower observes that Uncle Sam is subsidizing fast-food chains whose rock-bottom pay makes their workers rely on government assistance to make ends meet, while Sam Pizzigati highlights a new milestone for runaway CEO pay. Donald Kaul is...
| Oct 29, 2013 | Food / FarmingIt was my privilege to go to Des Moines recently for a World Food Prize extravaganza recognizing Monsanto’s work against global hunger. But wait, Monsanto is not a hunger-fighter. It’s a predatory proliferator of proprietary and genetically engineered...
