Global View front page articles all submitted articles All articles are submitted by smart activists like you. Go here to contribute:  07-30-2010 Monday August 29, 2005 Comments After more than a year, four-thousand-plus article links, and over a thousand unique sources, SmartActivist.org is going on hiatus, indefinitely. Thanks everyone for your participation! Global | SmartActivist.org [3] Even Geeks Need a Breather Global | Wired News [0] Spin the Global Warming Wheel and find out how the weather might change as Earth's overall temperature increases. Global | Results for America [0] Video games have enabled a novel kind of identity theft, as we play out our fantasies and frustrations in their many make-believe worlds. Global | New Atlantis [0] Sunday August 28, 2005 Comments Musical Attention Deficit Disorder Global | Stay Free! Daily [1] Common Content available to anyone for copying or creative re-use. Add some more! Global | Common Content [0] Working to End the Global E-Waste Epidemic: What you can do to prevent old computers from ending up in a landfill. Global | TechSoup [0] Saturday August 27, 2005 Comments Feeling Old and Ugly? Take Another Look Global | Women's eNews [0] Friday August 26, 2005 Comments For a city dweller who only needs a car occasionally... Global | CarSharing Network [0] Thursday August 25, 2005 Comments Easy way to see what's on newspaper front pages from around the world Global | Newseum [0] Harry Potter and the dilemma of the political left Global | Z Communications [0] Wednesday August 24, 2005 Comments Charities changed by technology Global | ITtoolbox [0] Tuesday August 23, 2005 Comments Procter and Gamble's new product: pre-menstrual tampons called "Almost". Global | Stay Free! Daily [0] Warning: extract() [function.extract]: First argument should be an array in /home/berlin2/public_html/smartactivist/eternal/f_general.add on line 208 Sunday August 21, 2005 Comments National Labor Committee shows videotape of Disney sweatshop where workers suffer through oppressive conditions including extreme heat, long hours and forced, and unpaid overtime. Global | [0] Friday August 19, 2005 Comments Russia and China begin unprecedented joint military exercises involving air, sea and land forces. Global | Globe and Mail [0] Thursday August 18, 2005 Comments China and India both trying to purchase Canadian oil company in Kazakhstan, a.k.a. the Empire's leftovers. Global | New York Times [0] The U.S.'s new way to control Central America Global | Los Angeles Times [0] Tuesday August 16, 2005 Comments Review of the hysterical new batch of corporate "health" websites Global | Stay Free! Daily [0] Monday August 15, 2005 Comments 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] 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] Sunday August 14, 2005 Comments 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] 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] Thursday August 11, 2005 Comments Online games inspiring virtual money laundering and real-life sweatshops to get fake cash that can be turned into real currency. Global | 1UP.com [0] Wednesday August 10, 2005 Comments "You call yourself a Christian, I call you a hypocrite / You call yourself a patriot, well I think you're full of shit" -- Rolling Stones' new song about Bush Global | ClickOnDetroit [0] Record labels upset about podcasting. Global | Yahoo! [0] Tuesday August 9, 2005 Comments Al-Qaida is now an idea, not an organisation: Bin Laden may not be capable of organising terror attacks directly, but then he does not need to. Global | Guardian Unlimited [0] Monday August 8, 2005 Comments Global warming increases spread of disease Global | Los Angeles Times [0] Thursday August 4, 2005 Comments Astronauts seeing widespread environmental destruction on Earth, "The atmosphere almost looks like an eggshell on an egg, it's so very thin." Global | CNN [0] Wednesday August 3, 2005 Comments MIT Hurricane Study: Global Warming 'Pumping Up' Destructive Power Global | Insurance Journal [0]