Darcia North Wind felt the stares whenever she'd show up at a construction site or the scene of a fire. She passed all the tests to be a firefighter and was able to handle an electric jackhammer as well as her male

Walmart says it wants you to live better. But they apparently don't feel the same way about the workers who pick the grapes and other produce they sell in their stores.

"Organic foods and products should be able to, at a minimum, compete equally with foods and products made with pesticides, chemical fertilizers, and genetic manipulation," said Kucinich.

An Aborigine chief and Secretary-Treasurer of the Union of BC Indian Chiefs has stated his horror at the Department of Fisheries and Oceans ignorance to the full range of problems affecting salmon runs in British Columbia.

Chase has recently increased the monthly minimum payment on select accounts that have carried balances. Effective August 2009, impacted cardmembers will have their minimum payment increased from 2% to 5% of the statement balance, said a Chase spokeswoman.

The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is it's everywhere. The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.

There's a lot of pressure right now to pass a new bill that would "help" the world's 1 billion hungry people by promoting chemical agriculture. We are devastating our own environment with these techniques, and doing so with little benefit to our farmers.

Oil companies are doing very little to develop the green energy technologies and resources Obama favors.

PLEASE READ and pass on. This story is the clearest, best description of the AIG debacle I've seen. It explains Credit Default Swaps, Derivatives and the like very well, and is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand the economic mess we're in.

Several days after news broke of a possible link between Mexico-based hog CAFOs and the rapid spread of a novel swine-flu strain, what have we learned? o Clarifying details about respiratory ailments in the Perote area of Vera Cruz State--