What we are beginning to face is not just an acute bottleneck, but a worldwide, fundamental food crisis. The crisis is so dire that it is obliterating any progress made in recent years in fighting disease and starvation.

US elections 2008: An open letter from a group of prominent US journalists and commentators deplores American Broadcasting Corporation's Democratic Party candidate debate moderated by George Stephanopoulos and Charles Gibson last Wednesday.

Liberation theology deconstructs cowboys and shepherds, leaders of authorities in fast decline, as prodigal sons, demon-possessed and Pharisees opposed to peace and self-determination.

Improvements in people's lives often have come about when society listened to voices on the periphery, not just the political and economic elites.

Unless we act fast for a global consensus on the price spiral, the social unrest induced by food prices in several countries will conflagrate into a price contagion, leaving no country-developed or otherwise-unscathed, India's finance minister warned

Information from Oaxaca. Two young women who worked with an community radio station in the state of Oaxaca, on their way to coordinate a working group for indigenous radio in Oacaca City, were ambushed, gunned down and killed enroute. Their supporters are encouraging people to contact local embassies and consulates.
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A human future begins when we respect nature as a mother and partner, share and redefine work, security, strength and health and abandon the hubris of empire and corporate profit worship. In every house there are keys to fight climate change when we embark on sustainable and subsistence economics.

Given that the economy is managed so that a certain percentage of people must be losers, the majority stands to gain by ensuring that the losers are selected not from its own ranks, but from the ranks of some already disadvantaged minority. That's why, forty years after Dr. King's "mountaintop" speech, Black Americans still haven't reached the Promised Land. The solution is to minimize the need for losers. Here's how.