Our North country paper, the Watertown Daily Times, published a moving letter on Iraq from a local family whose son was killed while serving in Iraq. “Democrats right to seek end to immoral War” is the headline for a May 3, 2007, letter from the Davey family of Lowville, NY. “We write in response to…

For many of us who are deeply concerned with environmental issues the most frustrating part of our struggle is that while public opinion is largely in our favor, the modern world’s basic institutions are biased against us. They dance to a different, and from an ecological perspective, often malevolent, drummer. Neither government nor the market…

Politically, perhaps the most important talk given at Pop!tech was Juan Enriquez on “Transformation in Power Systems.” Enriquez is a businessman, academician, and best selling author. Curently he is chairman and CEO of Biotechonomy, a company researching and assisting startups applying the genomic revolution. He began by describing the sudden break up of the German…

The contemporary “conservative” right is an expression of pathological patriarchy. This movement makes the most extreme case for subordinating women and feminine values to their supposedly manly way of life. But, and in a grim sort of way this is fascinating, they never walk their talk. Not on anything. To give one of a great…

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