The long-awaited and much-advertised “nuclear renaissance” actually got under way this week. NRG Energy, a New Jersey company recently emerged from bankruptcy, applied for a license to build two new nuclear power plants at an existing facility in Bay City, Texas — the first formal application for such a license in 30 years.
NRG Energy has [...]
In 2006, thirteen years after the ratification of NAFTA (the North American Free Trade Agreement) between Mexico, Canada and the United States, when there is a yearly emigration of more than half a million Mexicans, as that country loses jobs and there is an exponential growth of poverty and inequality (Wallach 2007), a carbon copy [...]
On Monday August 20, a three-judge panel of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta heard the case of the Cuban Five for the third time. In August 2005, a similar three-judge panel of the same court had unanimously overturned all of the Five’s convictions and ordered a new trial. In 2006, after the [...]
Artists are farmers who grow fruit for the soul, artists have the ability to move and inspire people, to change and enliven people. Creative minds of all kinds have always led the way in human potential and many of these artists, musicians, painters, writers, engineers and scientists have been naturally drawn toward social activism, global [...]
Last week the Brazilian Movement of Landless Rural Workers (MST) held its fifth National Congress in BrasÃlia, the country’s capital. The power the MST has garnered throughout its 23 years was palpable, as more than 17,500 delegates from 24 states and almost 200 international guests marched to the Square of the Three Powers, situated between [...]
June 5, 2007
Gerardo Hernandez, one of the Cuban five, has spent another birthday in prison, but this year something different happened. This time a radio wave of solidarity penetrated the prison bars, the barbed wires, and the metallic doors of Victorville Penitentiary to reach the ears and heart of Gerardo.
“Cantos sin Fronteras†is a 2 [...]
The news that President George W. Bush has converted to Islam is not the strangest news of the political season (one thinks of the recent report that Hilary Clinton had a sex change operation in the early seventies). But, it is certainly one that will have the most far-reaching implications for U.S. foreign policy, not [...]
December 2006 marked five years since the Cuban Five were sentenced to prison.
In 2001, Fernando González, Gerardo Hernández, Antonio Guerrero, Ramón Labañino and René González were unjustly convicted of engaging in “espionage conspiracy” and other charges, and sentenced to terms ranging from 15 years to double life. In fact, they committed no act of espionage [...]
São Paulo – During Bush’s visit to Brazil thousands of poor, rural members of the international Via Campesina social movement and the Brazilian Movement of the Landless Rural Workers (MST) orchestrated massive, non-violent occupations of multinational agribusiness corporations throughout the country. Nine hundred women occupied the Cevasa ethanol distillery in São Paulo. According to the [...]
Bush’s trip to Latin America is a calculated effort to counter Hugo Chavez’s growing influence in the region and to separate the “bad left” from the “good left”, namely Uruguay and to some extent Brazil. He hopes to add them to the dwindling bloc of pro-US nations, including Colombia, Guatemala and Mexico which he is [...]
