Michael Brenner: Is CIA a National Liability?

The C.I.A.: A National Liability? Michael Brenner Senior Fellow, the Center for Transatlantic Relations; Professor of International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh Huffington Post, 22 April 2013 The errant actions of the C.I.A. are by now so evident that they are a staple of Washington conversation. Like the weather, though, it is the topic everybody talks …

Review: Ending the Male Leadership Myth – How Women Can Save Us from Destroying Ourselves

Fernando Pargas STUNNINGLY Intelligent, Timely, A Study in Ethics, Business, & Governance, April 20, 2013 I received this book as a gift because I have been telling people for over a decade that the 21st Century is going to be the Century of women, whose compassion, intuition, and smaller egos make them so much superior …

SchwartzReport: Good and Bad Farm News, Lab Organs, Telecommuting Congress

This is some wonderful good news; it offers an alternative to the chemical and poison driven agriculture model that dominates our world now. It also offers an answer to the vast youth unemployment problem we have in our inner cities, as well as eliminating a great deal of pollution arising from trucking food across the …

Dolphin: Chinese Congress Puts Environment on the Table — Major Revolt within Congress, More Reforms Anticipated

China People’s Congress environment surprise TIM PALMER: In China the fallout is still being felt from an open rebellion over air pollution at the country’s annual session of parliament. It was a dramatic shift for a Congress that’s normally seen as no more than a rubber stamp. Sensing a growing environmental crisis, a third of …

For the Record: Chavez Dies, China Admits Cancer Villages

President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela Dies at Age 58 CARACAS, Venezuela — President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela died Tuesday afternoon after a long battle with cancer, the government announced, leaving behind a bitterly divided nation in the grip of a political crisis that grew more acute as he languished for weeks, silent and out of …

Koko: Fukushima Radiation Update for US West Coast

2013-02-20  U.S. bluefin tuna still contaminated with Fukushima radiation — Study: Cesium found in 100% of small, recently migrated tuna tested Forbes, Feb. 20, 2013: […] Last week one of the authors of the study from last year, Daniel J. Madigan from Stanford University’s Hopkins Marine Station—along with five other scientists— published a new follow-up …