View front page articles all submitted articles All articles are submitted by smart activists like you. Go here to contribute:  08-16-2005 Tuesday August 16, 2005 Comments Peace deal signed in Aceh. Rebels must disarm while the Indonesian soldiers, well, they don't have to do anything. Indonesia | Guardian Unlimited [0] Reliant Energy to pay $460 million for manipulating electricity prices and gouging consumers during the fake California energy crisis in 2000 and 2001. United States | Bloomberg [0] CBC wants to hire more people on contract rather than to permanent jobs. Here come the strikes. Canada | canada.com [0] RIAA says that burning CDs is an even bigger threat than downloading and sharing MP3s. Wait 'till they find out about mix tapes! United States | Inquirer [0] Google is giving publishers a chance to join the rest of us in the information age. United States | Information Today [0] Article on Creative Commons and Creative Commons Search Tools United States | Information Today [0] Bill O'Reilly is a big blubbering vagina. United States | Best Page In The Universe [0] Review of the hysterical new batch of corporate "health" websites Global | Stay Free! Daily [0] Monday August 15, 2005 Comments How one newsroom killed the story of Bush's "bulge" in the Presidential debates. United States | Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting [0] The Great American Jobs Scam United States | Guerrilla News Network [0] "Incumbency is so entrenched that most voters lack any real say in who represents them... Publicly financed careerism has significant negative consequences for the health of the political system." United States | Cato Institute [0] Increasingly, drug companies aren't just selling cures. They're also marketing disease. "The big money can be made not only by selling drugs to the sick, but by selling drugs to the healthy, the people who don't even know that they need drugs yet." Global | Mother Jones [1] Americans may support the war on terror, but when it comes to making sacrifices... they'll just leave that part to the military. United States | Z Communications [0] If we want to reduce hunger we need to go back to native crops. "At least 7,000 plant species could be cultivated for food, but only 150 crops are grown commercially." Global | Science and Development Network [0] Get back to fucking work!!!!!!!!! United States | CNN [0] The latest way Congress is trying to harm non-profit groups is by restricting any donations that aren't cash, like real estate, cars, or bull semen. United States | PittsburghLIVE [0] Sunday August 14, 2005 Comments The Human Cost of 24-Hour News, "Our minds get filled with static, distortion and exaggerated anxiety." United States | MediaChannel [0] Scary facts about the housing boom United States | Mother Jones [0] Compassion and current conflicts Global | Z Communications [0] Many people know about the famine in Niger, but it's just as bad in Mali, Ethiopia, Malawi, Mauritania, Burkina Faso, Zimbabwe, Eritrea, southern Sudan... Global | New York Times [0] Humans have hit a new low: Bum-vertising. "And he believes it's a campaign that benefits both him and the homeless people he's hired to hold signs advertizing his Web site." United States | ABC News [0] ABC's One-Sided Wal-Mart Report: Does a big advertiser get special treatment? United States | Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting [0] With the world's 6 billion people competing for food, water, and shelter, poor land use may bring our doom. "Short of a collision with an asteroid, land use by humans is the most significant impact on the world's biosphere." Global | World Business Council for Sustainable Development [0] Open letter to the Kansas school board on their decision to teach an alternative to Evolution. "I and many others around the world are of the strong belief that the universe was created by a Flying Spaghetti Monster." (with pics) United States | venganza.org [0] Saturday August 13, 2005 Comments Crisis in Mali leaves 1.1 million hungry, hitting children the hardest Mali | ReliefWeb [0] Factory fishing boats were about to suck up schools and schools of fish -- that is, until Greenpeace sped ahead and started splashing around. United States | New Standard [0] Time For Health Care For All On Medicare's 40th Anniversary United States | Z Communications [0] Armed men enter Baghdad's municipal building during a blinding dust storm, depose the city's mayor, and install a member of Iraq's most powerful Shiite militia. Holy fuck! Iraq | New York Times [0] Water Wars beginning in the U.S. United States | New York Times [0] Because of Accutane's severe side effects, the FDA is making patients register with a national database and promise to use two forms of birth control. Just pull the drug! United States | Business Week [0] Government to stop collecting information on women workers, after all someone might realize how fucked over they are in the workplace. United States | Feminist Majority Foundation [0] UNICEF declares a state of 'acute emergency' for women and children in Afghanistan due to high maternal and child mortality rates. Maybe after Halloween they can send over a whole bunch of change. Afghanistan | Feminist Majority Foundation [0]