Water
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Water in Latin America: The Importance of Gender Relations
As caretakers and homemakers, women are usually responsible for finding water according to its accessibility, availability, quality, and use. Despite their prominent role in the use and management of water, women are generally not consulted on matters of water infrastructure or policy, even though United Nations researchers suggest that the perspectives of women need to… Continue reading
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Water for Sale: Thirst for Profit: Corporate Control of Water in Latin America
The People’s Water Forum, a global water justice movement which has referred to the World Water Forum as ‘false’ and ‘corporate driven,’ also gathered in Istanbul to protest the Fifth World Water Forum. In the People’s Water Forum Declaration, they sharply criticize the World Water Forum, stating that it is motivated by private interests and… Continue reading
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Climate Wars: Reviewed by Zane Alcorn
Climate Wars uses an exciting format whereby a series of interviews with military, political, climate and renewable-energy specialists is punctuated by fictional projections of a future devastated by climate change. Continue reading
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Future farming: The call for a 50-year perspective on agriculture – an interview with Wes Jackson
2 February, 2009 Written by Robert Jensen As everyone scrambles for a solution to the crises in the nation’s economy, Wes Jackson suggests we look to nature’s economy for some of the answers. With everyone focused on a stimulus package in the short term, he counsels that we pay more attention to the soil over Continue reading
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GazaFriends – Gone Fishing 25 August, 2008
Israel has refused to let Palestinians fish in their own waters for the past 15 months. Even before that, they restricted Palestinian fishermen to around 6 miles. Now, they shoot holes in the boats and in the fishermen if they are caught farther out than about a kilometer. Continue reading
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In bed with Bush – The Bechtel story By William Bowles
The ‘enemy’ is everywhere and nowhere. It could be you, it could be me. The upshot is, that it opens up the field for a major offensive by the state against virtually the entire US population, who are, at the end of day, the real ‘enemy of the state’ and of big business. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 