Drinkable Water is a natural resource that every human being needs. So which is the higher priority -- getting water to every person, or getting large profits to private enterprises that seek control over water supplies?
Africa: Water as a Right, Not a Business
Soaked in Corruption, a Congressional committee worsens Bush's huge budget deficit by voting to extend welfare handouts to agribusiness corporations.
Congressional Committee Votes to Continue Corporate Welfare Scandal
A Divided Court Has Ruled that school officials can control the speech of their students, even when the students are off campus and the school is not in session! That ruling is anti-American.
ACLU Slams Supreme Court Decision in Student Free Speech Case
How Do We Want to See Ourselves -- full of fear and hate, or full of hospitality and generosity? Each individual can decide, and together we shape an immigration policy.
Immigration Reform: One-Track Loyalties
How Much Further does government have to decay, before a substantial portion of Americans are willing to take action to improve it? That is the situation considered by guest author Joel S. Hirschhorn.
Are Americans Unready to Boil?
In the Midst of Extremes of Economic Injustice, the federal government chooses to spend your tax dollars on investigating whether two grocery store companies should be allowed to merge. Senior Editor Fred Foldvary questions that priority.
Whole Phooey on Antimonopoly Action
Reagan/Bush almost completely destroyed US family farms back in the 1980s; very few remain. Now the same prospect faces India, but on a much larger scale. It's the same old bad plan -- to give agribusiness corporations a special advantage.
India Will Have 400 Million Agricultural Refugees
In Scotland the Green Party is calling for the abolition of two taxes, replacing them with a simple local tax reform that has proved successful where tried.
Land Value Taxation Proposed to Replace Council Tax and Business Rates
We All Need to live somewhere. We could save money if speculators stopped bidding up the price of housing.
Housing prices falling is bad news -- and good news
Government is not likely to be as careful about food safety as it should be, as corporate lobbyists order politicians to approve untested products and not to allow labelling. The result is higher risks for you and your children.
Should You Have a Say in Your Food Safety?
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