Judging from this latest voice transmission, it seems that human beings are poisoning themselves and their planet — transforming the very chemistry of their blue-green home.
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Naksa Day protesters at the Qalandiyah checkpoint between Jerusalem and Ramallah were greeted with violence this morning. We spoke on the phone with Palestinian National Initiative leader Mustapha Barghouthi.
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When a group of “tech” divers from around the world travels to Bikini Atoll for a week’s adventure in paradise, preparing to feast their eyes on the world’s most famous collection of sunken nuclear warships, inconvenience is the last thing on their mind. Dave Kattenburg watches as their holiday unfolds.
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Here’s another dispatch from Victoria Fenner, who spent an action and learning-filled three weeks in Central America earlier in the year. It’s hard to visit Central America and not explore the world of coffee, so here we go.
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The next time you buy roses for your honey, consider this: The cut flowers in your Valentine’s bouquet were fumigated for insects and mildew, then drenched with preservatives for the long flight north. They may only make your lover sneeze – or perhaps break out in a rash – but the farmers who grow the flowers may suffer chronic poisoning. GPM producer Jen Moore sends us this report from Ecuador, a major exporter of cut flowers.
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Thirty years have come and gone since the end of the American War – as the Vietnamese call it – and its toxic aftermath lingers on. Between 1961 and the early 1970s, the U.S. drenched Vietnam with almost a hundred million liters of Agent Orange and other herbicides. It wasn’t just rainforests and mangroves that suffered … and the poison continues its dirty work.
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An Interview with 1989 Right Livelihood Award winner Melaku Worede.
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