| Nov 14, 2012 | Peace / SecurityWhistleblowers Suffer woe To tell us what We need to know. When you picture classified documents, don’t visions of spy lists, nuclear ignition formulas, cross-sections of bomber wings, or diagrams of missile trajectories come to mind? Well, those documents...
| Sep 10, 2012 | Peace / SecurityRicher countries Flex their might, Holding poor ones In plight. U.S. media outlets tend to report Haiti strictly as a land of tragedy. Its hapless citizens seem endlessly beset with earthquakes, floods, cholera, hunger, and bad government. Unfortunately, our press...
| Feb 6, 2012 | Peace / SecuritySee some cheating Where you work? Keep it quiet, Dangers lurk. As activist Medea Benjamin has said, “You are better off committing a war crime than exposing one” in the United States. No government cares to be accused of a war crime. If you happen to...
| Oct 10, 2011 | Rights / DemocracyCampaigns face A lot of stress; When ignored By all the press. You may have heard of Ron Paul. He’s a popular Republican candidate for president who just won the Values Voter Summit’s straw poll. He’s done well in other polling too, generally holding...
| Jul 18, 2011 | Peace / SecurityWorking life Would make you wince; Should you visit Port-au-Prince. It’s baseball season in America. For years, for every ball that was scuffed in the dirt or fouled in the stands, another was quietly stitched in an abysmal Haitian sweatshop owned by Rawlings...
