- Jul 19, 2008
- 3 min
“Fantasy Dessert” Implicated in Worldwide Epidemic
If you Google “food scarcity,” you’ll find hundreds of thousands of links. It’s everywhere — including at the recent G8 Summit in Japan....
- Jul 16, 2008
- 3 min
Good Grief, Gordon Brown!
“Finish your supper, Francie, children are dying in China,” I heard growing up. It didn’t make sense to me then, and British Prime...
- Jul 12, 2008
- 3 min
Just Who’s Doing the Hoarding? Food Independence and Real Democracy
As about 30 countries scramble to protect their citizens from hunger by limiting food exports, the title of a front-page New York Times...
- Jun 6, 2008
- 3 min
Is Clinton’s 2012 Campaign Under Way?
We know Hillary Clinton is smart, and we so can assume that for some time she has known, as well as anyone, that it is virtually...
- Mar 26, 2008
- 4 min
Wasn’t It Also Obama’s “Democracy Speech”?
As commentators vie to predict the impact of Obama’s March 18, 2008, “race speech” on his candidacy, it’s easy to fixate on what it tells...