73 The Simple Life: How To Bring The Land Back To Us

Abdul — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 18:24:21 -0600

Long before organic grocery stores and hybrid cars, our grandparents led the kind of sustainable lifestyle that everyone from environmentalists to celebrities are now endorsing. As the world struggles with its ecological crisis, it’s time to look back at how the previous generations lived if we want to save the planet for the next.

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Thanks for the Memories: Australian Media After the Packers

Abdul — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 18:01:56 -0500

During the lazy lacuna of the 2005 Christmas break, the Australian “silly season” was suddenly interrupted by the serious when the country’s richest man, media magnate Kerry Packer, died of kidney failure. One of the most influential, colorful and controversial figures in Australia, Packer’s death marked the end of a momentous era.

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The Death of Canadian Journalism

Abdul — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 19:52:33 -0500

In a crowded bar in downtown Vancouver, a group of reporters from the city’s main daily newspaper, The Vancouver Sun, gather after work to do what most people revel in after a long week at the office: bitch about the boss. While images of the Iraq War, Wal-Mart and Kid Rock quickly flash and disappear on the television screens above them, editors are mocked, columnists are ridiculed and the paper their bylines appear in is panned up and down.

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The Cure for the Iraq War Hangover

Abdul — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 20:03:02 -0500

Remember Stripes, Bill Murray’s take on American self-esteem after Vietnam? “We’re American soldiers!” Murray famously joked. “We’ve been kicking ass for 200 years! We’re 10-1!” Well, make it 10-2. Which begs the question: exactly how much is this postwar period going to suck?

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Prairie Fire: The New China's New Unrest

Abdul — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 18:53:31 -0500

It was the bloodiest clash between Chinese police and civilians since Tiananmen Square. On a December evening in 2005, hundreds of paramilitary police descended on Dongzhou, a fishing village in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong. At seven o’clock, security forces fired tear gas canisters erupting into a crowd that had gathered to protest a power plant being built in the hills. The demonstrators didn’t disperse, so at eight o’clock, police began shooting into the dirt with their AK-47s. “Finally,” one witness said, “at about 10 pm, they started killing people.”

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It Will All Fall Down: A Conversation with Seymour Hersh

Abdul — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 19:10:29 -0500

Seymour Hersh stands out as a preeminent chronicler of US power. In 2006, he revealed that the administration was considering a nuclear strike on Iran, and reported that the US had encouraged Israel to plan and execute the war against Lebanon, in which more than a thousand Lebanese civilians were killed. If the aim of journalism is to hold the powerful to account, Hersh is a towering example on how to do just that.

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Battles with Big Pharma

Abdul — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 19:23:07 -0500

In the law of the market, businesses charge whatever they think the market will bear – except in medicine, where costs come weighed with moral dilemmas. Now, some countries are telling drug companies they won’t pay.

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The Resistible Rise of Rupert Murdoch

Abdul — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 16:49:40 -0500

Rupert Murdoch has come to secure a firm and powerful grip around the throat of the United Kingdom’s media. The self-described “billionaire tyrant” now controls nearly 40 percent of the national press, owns one of the world’s biggest book publishers, and has monopoly control over the country’s satellite television service.

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São Paulo: A City Without Ads

Abdul — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 17:46:42 -0500

In 2007, the world’s fourth-largest metropolis and Brazil’s most important city, São Paulo, became the first city outside of the communist world to put into effect a radical, near-complete ban on outdoor advertising.

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Monotech: What agribusiness has done to the honeybee

Abdul — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 14:35:11 -0500

Honeybees are hardly the developed world’s first species to suffer a quick, curious demise in their number. “We’re the ultimate cause in that we’ve changed the planet to suit our needs. We’re running it to suit our needs and not to the benefit of all the organisms around us,” explained Jeffery Pettic…

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