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Bush abandons safety regs The Bush administration continues, on all fronts, to abandon enforcement of job safety and health standards. Recent Congressional hearings shed light on the administration’s almost total disregard of ergonomic injuries. The lax...

Separatism threatens left gains in Latin America

The approval of autonomy by voters in Bolivia’s Santa Cruz department on May 4 stimulated legislators from the right wing New Time Party in Venezuela’s oil rich Zulia state to propose a commission to study the...

Opinion: Over farming

A Southern battleground for Communists and other heroes

BOOKREVIEW “Defying Dixie, The Radical Roots of Civil Rights 1919-1950” By Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore W.W. Norton & Company, 2008, Hardcover, 640 pp.Professor Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore’s book, “Defying Dixie, The Radical Roots of Civil Rights 1919-1950,” creates...

What will we eat when the soil is gone?

More than one environmental crisis threatens our planet. While most of our collective attention is focused on global warming and climate change, the topsoil which sustains life is quickly eroding. On average, the Earth’s land surface...