After having their organic almond businesses devastated by the USDA's bizarre decision requiring mandatory chemical fumigation of almonds, the almond industry is fighting back. Fifteen American almond growers have filed a lawsuit against the USDA...

Is the oil crisis being manufactured? Lindsey Williams thinks it is.Williams became an oil industry insider by virtue of his success at mediating labor disputes in the Alaska oil fields--thank you Elle J!

Who'd spy on a couple of nonprofit human rights groups? Who'd hire professional infiltrator to sit in on their planning sessions? Who'd attack them on Web for their efforts to improve lives of workers who pick produce for world's largest fast food chains?

On March 11 a new documentary was aired on French television (ARTE - French-German cultural tv channel) by French journalist and film maker Marie-Monique Robin, The World According to Monsanto - A documentary that Americans won't ever see.

Please have a look.....

A new company in San Diego called You Walk Away that does just what its name says. For $995, it helps people walk away from their homes, ceding them to the banks in foreclosure.

The information commissioner has ordered Downing Street to publish confidential records of two important cabinet meetings in the run-up to the Iraq war.

Both Microsoft and Google have unveiled individual patient online health record storage plans...now Google, partnered with the Cleveland Clinic, is moving ahead, hoping to create a nationwide database of patient-controlled health information.

Se y'all in the poorhouse! We're on the skids to Third World country status.

Frightening - foreign interests are buying up our country and its businesses at a record pace. Can we ever get it back?