On Sunday, the New York Times outed the Pentagon's "military analyst program," an extensive effort to cultivate retired military officers as "message force multipliers" or "surrogates" spouting Bush administration talking points on Iraq and other hot-button issues. We've compiled a
In addition to helping research the "Pentagon's pundits" on SourceWatch -- those retired military officers who took part in the Pentagon program to promote Bush Administration talking points on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, Guantanamo detention center and wiretap surveillance
Here it is, in all its lonely glory: the world's oldest living tree. Found in western Sweden, scientists believe that this spruce is 9,550 years old. Before, pine trees in North America had been called the oldest at 4,000 to
We've already learned from the BBC how families around the world are changing their eating habits to deal with rising prices, but what does all this mean for the growing movement towards more sustainable lifestyles? We've already caused some healthy
One of the people excited about NSW's newly legal industrial hemp crops is researcher Klara Marosszeky. She has been developing a commercial viable hemp building material, and will now be able to source her raw materials locally rather than trucking
The Om DomeAlastair Gordon writes a wonderful article in Architectural Record, suggesting that it is a good time to look back at the seeds of green architecture, the Drop Cities, geodesic domes, Arcosanti and other strange and spaced-out shelters."It was
We have noted that it takes 2500 gallons of water to produce one pound of beef. An Australian academic has suggested that there should be water labelling on food to let us know how much water has been used in
It was a surprise to see that so many cartoonists would all do special Earth Day cartoons, more of a surprise that so many of them were so unfunny and less than inspiring, but the biggest surprise of all was
Now that they've changed a major component of the project, we firmly believe this rezoning application should die," said Jim Cooperman, president of the Shuswap Environmental Action Society. "They should have to come up with a whole new plan and
The study by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives says that 490 welfare recipients were cut off in 2006 for not complying with the government's employment plan, and welfare recipients constantly struggle to meet basic needs.
Police say the 23-year-old was injured just before 1 p.m. Monday after falling down a steep grade on Mount Whitehorn in an area known as Maintenance Cliff.
The family of 18-year-old Nadia Kajouji say they are angry the university didn't tell them the young woman was depressed and receiving counselling before her disappearance on March 9.
Justice Minister Jerome Kennedy said the task force he set up late last year has made a number of recommendations to streamline the criminal justice system.
The principal at the center of a grade-changing scandal that cost South Oak Cliff High School a basketball championship has resigned from the Dallas Independent School District. District officials said Donald Moten resigned from his job as an assistant principal
University of North Texas students planted perennials, sculpted paper statues and built a bicycle arch to honor Earth Day on Tuesday. "We wanted to make everything natural," said Michelle Saunders, a freshman who gathered crepe myrtle branches, grapevine roots, twine
