Hippocratic Hypocrisy
Over at truthout.org: apparently if you use medical marijuana you can expect to be rejected if you need an organ transplant. Once again law and policy come before humanity and mercy.
Global Food Shortages
For a viewpoint that you would never hear on CNN or ABC, read Eric Walberg’s take on the global food crisis.
For another excellent analysis see Walden Bello’s Manufacturing A Food Crisis.
And Raj Patel writes about the hypocrisy of media reporting about the food shortage in this short piece at commondreams.org.
Conserve This!
Finally, Paul Craig Roberts, eloquent as always, weighs in on the so called American conservatives and finds them wanting.
Over at dictionary.com you can find the usual definitions for “conserve,” but I think I like this one the best to describe the new breed in America (emphasis added of course):
a mixture of several fruits cooked to jamlike consistency with sugar and often garnished with nuts and raisins.
