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News :: Children & Education : Environment : Urban Development

Bio-Jet Fuel

Airbus and Honeywell plan to create bio-jet fuel
 

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News :: International Relations : Media

The Shortwave Report 5/16/08 Listen Globally!

A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. China, Netherlands, Cuba, and Russia.
 

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LOCAL Announcement :: Protest Activity

6/11: Protest at Caterpillar Annual Shareholder Meeting

WEDNESDAY: JUNE 11
CATERPILLAR ANNUAL SHAREHOLDER MEETING IN CHICAGO
12 NOON-2:00 PM
Northern Trust Bank, 50 S. LaSalle Street, Chicago
 

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Commentary :: Media

Killtown: discredited 9/11 researcher under attack

During his six year stint as a 911 researcher, "Killtown" has found fame, some say infamy, over his Shanksville research, the most controversial portion being his assertion Valencia McClatchey's photo, "the End of Serenity", is a fake.
 

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News :: Civil & Human Rights

Big Brother Close Up

An FBI Terrorism Conference in the Heartland
 

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Commentary :: Elections & Legislation

Obama to Model Foreign Policy on that of Bush I, Reagan and; Kennedy: This is Change?

Many people support Senator Barack Obama for president because they see in him the hope for change from the direction that the U.S. has taken over the last seven plus years. His campaign refers to this as "change you can believe in." But looking at what Obama has actually said while on the campaign trail should dash any real "hope" of real "change." For instance how would he change U.S. foreign policy?
 

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Commentary :: Civil & Human Rights

Frances Fox Piven's "Challenging Authority"

Advancing disruptive social protests for change.
 

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LOCAL News :: Gender & Sexuality

H - U - G - E Gay Rights Victory in California!

Nation's Largest State to Get Equal Marriage Rights for Lesbians and Gays!

At 12 noon Central Time today the California Supreme Court ruled in favor of equal marriage rights for lesbian and gay couples in what is very likely to be an important shot in the arm for the drive towards full legal equality for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community.
 

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News :: Civil & Human Rights

ACLU Obtains Defense Department Documents About Prisoner Deaths and Interrogations

NEW YORK - May 14 - The American Civil Liberties Union has obtained previously withheld documents from the Defense Department, including internal investigations into the abuse of detainees in U.S. custody overseas.
 

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News :: Children & Education

School Military Recruiting Could Violate International Protocol

WASHINGTON - Pressed by the demands of the “global war on terrorism”, the United States is violating an international protocol that forbids the recruitment of children under the age of 18 for military service, according to a new report released Tuesday by a major civil rights group that charged that recruitment practices target children as young as 11 years old.
 

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