1 in 10 Americans Went Hungry Last Year

Just wait people....this number will skyrocket in the next 5-10 years.
- Alternet

The Bush Family Gets Away with Crimes That Would Land Anyone Else in Jail

Though the evidence is now overwhelming that President Bush was part of a White House cabal that leaked Valerie Plame Wilson's identity as a covert CIA officer and then covered up the facts, major newspapers, such as the New York Times and the Washington Post, continue to pooh-pooh this extraordinary scandal. - Alternet

The End of America

"If you think we are living in scary times, your worst fears may be confirmed by reading Naomi Wolf's newest book, The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot. In it, Wolf proves the old axiom that history does repeat itself. Or more accurately, history occurs in patterns, and in order to understand where our country is today and where it is headed, we need to read the history books." - Alternet

Quote of the Week

"We no longer have a left in America. The left does things like call general strikes and elect politicians who give money to the poor. What we have in America is a raging, all-consuming right-wing inferno, and various ways of dealing with it: complaining, fighting (and losing) issue by issue, halfway going along with it and calling yourself a "moderate," pushing it to even greater extremes so it burns out faster, watching it and learning, or taking shelter and planning for recovery after it passes." - Ran Preiur

Climate Change Accelerating, Top Scientists Warn

Two eminent scientists are sounding dire warnings about the intensity and speed of climate change.

A former head of the CSIRO's atmospheric research unit is warning that it will only be a couple of years before we will see stark evidence of global warming.

And Australia's former chief scientist says governments around the world will need to use every option available to slow the warming of the planet.

These scientists have voiced their concerns just days before the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is due to release the last of its four reports.

The Planet in Peril

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Read the entire report: Global Environmental Outlook / BBC

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