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Democracy and religious fundamentalism in India
We should be paying attention to this: While Americans have focused on President Bush’s “war on terror,” Iraq, and the Middle East, democracy has been under siege in another part of the world. India — the most populous of all democracies, and a country whose Constitution protects human rights even more comprehensively than our own […]
Hand it to the Catholics
While the price of birth control pills on college campuses in US has skyrocketed this year due to Bush’s Deficit Reduction Act, Brazil is looking to prevent unwanted pregnancy by subsidizing the pill. If our politicians really were interested in reducing abortions, they wouldn’t make it so difficult to prevent pregnancy.
denial
Rachel Carson inspired the environmental movement with her book Silent Spring. Her 100th birthday was earlier this year and lots of celebrations were held in her honor. But our government’s attempt to honor her impact didn’t go forward. Sen. Tom Coburn derailed approval of a Senate resolution honoring the life of Carson, whose 1962 book […]
How to starve a country
I’ve posted before about the damage farm subsidies can do to the economies of other countries. Corn is one of the most heavily subsidized crops and it’s being used to create ethanol, which is currently more profitable than selling the corn for food because ethanol is subsidized, too. This is causing some very serious problems […]
mad in the morning
Two stories via Majikthise that should inspire you to write letters. A 14 year has the self possession to get to a hospital after being raped and she isn’t offered EC. A British civil servant and legislator’s aide who leaked a memo quoting a Bush threat to bomb Al Jazeera have been found guilty of […]
Put me thru school…
You probably think I should put myself through school with work, applying for scholarships, etc. Well, I’ve got 3 well paying jobs and 1 not so well paying job,* a hefty fellowship, a scholarship worth a few hundred, a grant worth a few thousand, and I’ve still only got 1/2 of my cost of of […]
articles worth reading
Cleaning up Yet emissions keep on rising. If greenhouse-gas concentrations are to be stabilised, then the carbon price or the support mechanisms for clean energy, or both, will have to rise or be adopted worldwide, or both. And if that happens, the returns on clean-energy investments will increase even further and the companies that have […]