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New Jersey Poet Professor Antiwar Activist Charles Bivona reports on the funny and the sad of American culture. Laugh at the truth. 
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CHICHIGALPA, Nicaragua -- Jesus Ignacio Flores started working when he was 16, laboring long hours on construction sites and in the fields of his country's biggest sugar plantation.
Nicholas Patrie's curator insight,
December 17, 2014 7:18 PM
This Disease comes through the plants that the men harvest through the fields and is caused by the dangerous chemicals and pesticides they place on the crops. These chemicals seep through and into the people's systems and then by the time they catch it, it is too late. The men suffer from kidney failure and later die. I hope that they ban these chemicals and this stops these people all from dying.
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Chevron is facing troubles in a number of oil-rich countries, including Nigeria, Brazil, and, of course, Ecuador. Via MOVUS
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By Chrystelle Barbier and Christine Legrand LE MONDE/Worldcrunch In the neighboring province of La Rioja, residents are targeting another project, the Famatina mine, owned by the Canadian firm Osisko Mining Corporation. “Water is more precious than gold,” is the battle cry being raised throughout Latin America by anti-mining groups that include rural peasants, ecologists and scientists. Together they complain of the negative environmental and social impacts caused by open-pit mines, which make heavy use of explosives, cyanide and fresh water. La Alumbrera consumes between 60 and 100 million liters of water per day. In Peru, thousands of people descended upon Lima in early February for a “national march” to protest the expansion of mining concessions throughout the country. Participants say the mines threaten their local water supplies. The biggest single source of controversy is a $4.8-billion mine project called Conga, which risks emptying several lakes in the northern department of Cajamarca. Via MOVUS
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The Justice Department has warned Apple Inc. and five of the biggest U.S. publishers that it plans to sue them for allegedly colluding to raise the price of electronic books.
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Since 1945, there have been more than 2,400 explosions, with a power in some…...
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Legendary singer-songwriter Bob Dylan is at work on a new studio album, leading sessions at Jackson Browne’s Los Angeles studio with Los Lobos’ David Hidalgo, among others.
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Icelanders who pelted parliament with rocks in 2009 demanding their leaders and bankers answer for the country’s economic and financial collapse are reaping the benefits of their anger.
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Everywhere you look people are glued to their gadgets. Social media going mobile has facilitated the loss of privacy, with countless status updates making it...
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DES Action USA is a non-profit organization that provides information and support to individuals affected by the synthetic estrogen drug diethylstilbestrol (DES).
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As the atrocious violence in Syria intensifies, more and more people seem to be saying that the outside world–the United States, the United Nations, the Arab League, the “West,” t...
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The cyclical ritual of bloodletting between Israel and Gaza always prompts two questions: 'Who started it?' and 'Whose is bigger?
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"Habibi" wins Best Film, FIPRESCI Prize, Best Actress, and Best Editor at the Dubai International Film Festival. Previously premiered at Venice Film Fest, To...
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Yesterday, 60,000 marched on Madison to mark the one-year anniversary of the passage of Governor Scott Walker's drastic dismantling of collective bargaining rights for public emplo...
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KONY TRICKS As much as I understand how Americans require brilliant Hollywood-styled devices used by the KONY 2012 campaign to raise partial awareness about the situation in Uganda, that doesn’t stop...
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