Dear Readers of Sierra Voices: I feel that I owe you all an apology for turning this journal from a nice little regional publication, concerned mostly with local issues (things we can actually do something about, like the effort by a Canadian penny-stock mining company to re-open the Idaho-Maryland Mine in Grass Valley, California)…
JEFFREY D. SACHS During the disastrous Vietnam War, it was said that the US government treated the public like a mushroom farm: keeping it in the dark and feeding it with manure. The heroic Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers documenting the unrelenting U.S. government lying about the war in order to protect politicians who…
And Looking for Someone to Lean On BY REBECCA GORDON Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com For twelve years starting in 1982, my partner and I in San Francisco joined with two friends in Seattle to produce Lesbian Contradiction: A Journal of Irreverent Feminism, or LesCon for short. We started out typing four-inch columns of text and laying out…
By David Hilzenrath and Jodie Fleischer, Cox Media Group Reprinted Under a Creative Commons License Justina Worrell, 47, works part time as a kitchen helper in an Ohio nursing home. She has cerebral palsy, an intellectual disability, and a cardiac condition that required she get an artificial heart valve at age 20. A year ago, she was…
You can learn more about U.S. foreign policy from Professor Jeffrey Sachs in the following short (19-minute) video than you can from watching MSNBC for a year, or reading the New York Times forever. Here’s a brief excerpt (full video below): “ … the U.S is the country that leads the world in regime…