Posted on May 21, 2008
Veolia Water turns sludge into Orgro High Organic Compost at its Baltimore plant.
The sewage sludge industry meets the light of day
By Joel Bleifuss
Nancy Holt, a retired nurse from Mebane, N.C., is beset by mysterious neurological problems. She blames the cause of her illness on the multiple unknown toxicities of the sewage sludge that has been spread since 1991 on the fields across from her house as “fertilizer.”
And Holt says she isn’t alone. People in her neighborhood have a high incidence of cancer and thyroid problems. Local creeks are no longer safe for kids to… more
Last spring, Chris Hedges, the Pulitzer Prize-winning former foreign correspondent for the New York Times, flew to California to see some atheists about God. Over the course of two debates -- one in Los… more
Filmmaker Errol Morris has grown famous and revered as the pioneer of what could be called interrogatory cinema -- documentaries that do not merely document but probe into mysterious matters with the intention of… more
Kalle Lasn is a fighter for the right to communicate. A privilege, says the founder of Adbusters magazine, that goes one step farther than the freedom of speech.
"You can stand on the corner… more
Another day, another report offering an awful glimpse into Washington's tortuous torture policies. After so many previous torture revelations, what's most surprising to me about the... more
The below is an excerpt from J.M. Coetzee's latest book, Diary of a Bad Year, published by Harvill Secker, September, 2007. Written with three concurrent perspectives... more
And the award for the most egregiously racist Obama campaign contribution goes to... Mike Norman, owner of Mulligan's Bar and Grill in Marietta, Ga., who's been... more
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Viewpoint
 By James Thindwa
The sensationalist media inquest into Sen. Barack Obama’s associations has cheapened the national debate. It has also exposed the hypocrisy and double standard of the… more
By Laura S. Washington · May 15
Recent Articles
By Stephen J. Fortunato Jr.
Either racial profiling is odious and unconstitutional, with personal and social consequences for communities of color — or it’s not.
On April 23,… more
By Akito Yoshikane
Margaret Cho knows how brutal Hollywood can be. In 2000, in her critically acclaimed one-woman comedy show, “I’m the One That I Want,”… more
By Ralph Seliger
On April 15, after 18 months of planning, a new progressive Jewish lobby called J Street was launched as a counterweight to the… more
By David Moberg
Tom Lewandowski, a former General Electric factory worker, heads the central labor union council in this northeastern Indiana city of a quarter million… more
Drastic wage cuts drive UAW members to picket American Axle & Manufacturing By John Patrick Leary
For more than two months, 3,600 United Auto Workers (UAW) members have walked picket lines in Detroit, Three Rivers, Mich., and upstate New… more
By Jessica Pupovac
Halliburton is licking its chops at the prospect of Mexico’s state-owned Petróleos Mexicanos going private.
Petróleos Mexicanos, or PEMEX, withstood a tsunami of… more
By Jon Whiten
In March, on the five-year anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, the nation’s major news outlets reflected on the war and what… more
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