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The G8′s “Diet Coke Plus” Politics 12 Jun 2013 | 11:11 pm
This piece was originally posted at The Guardian. Over centuries, modern agriculture has bred the nutrients out of our food. The G8 will next week try to go one further – within a generation, they wa...
Wendy’s Promises are as Empty as a Fast Food Calorie 7 Jun 2013 | 11:40 pm
This piece was originally posted at The Huffington Post Wendy’s, the world’s third largest burger joint, is having a makeover. From being “Wendy’s Old Fashioned Burgers” we’re now told it’s just “Wend...
Website shenanigans 7 Jun 2013 | 11:35 pm
Part of the reason I’ve been a bit quiet here is because RajPatel.org is acting up a little, with hackers figuring out increasingly smart ways to inject malicious code into the site. After the most re...
It has been 100 days. Where is Sombath? 23 Mar 2013 | 03:10 am
That’s what I’ll be asking on Monday, when I call the Lao Embassy in Washington on Monday between 9:00 to 12:00 and 13:00 to 16:30 Eastern time on (202) 332-6416/7. “It has been 100 days; Where is Som...
I say Tomahto, you say exploitation. 23 Mar 2013 | 03:00 am
From the Huffington Post. What’s the quickest way to get thrown out of a Publix supermarket? Is it a) to run naked through the aisles, b) to point and yell ‘horsemeat!’ at the deli counter or c) to q...
The Misanthropocene 4 Mar 2013 | 11:11 pm
This essay first appeared in The Earth Island Journal special issue on The Anthropocene. More here. My first earthquake happened at four in the morning, when some small god picked up my apartment bui...
Last words on l’affaire Lynas 31 Jan 2013 | 04:17 am
Three last things on the Mark Lynas story (some of which is reprised by the CBC here). First, thanks to Daniel “Foodieana Jones” Bowman Simon for observing that I have, contrary to a previous statemen...
Stop rural slavery! Respect the farmworkers! Via Campesina Africa Solidarity Statement on the farmworkers mobilization in South Africa 15 Jan 2013 | 09:55 pm
Via Campesina Africa Solidarity Statement on the farmworkers mobilization in South Africa Stop rural slavery! Respect the farmworkers! (Maputo 14th January 2013) – During the month of November last y...
Man Reads Book 14 Jan 2013 | 09:57 pm
It was such a non-issue that I really didn’t want to write about it at all. I didn’t know who Mark Lynas was and didn’t know that he had changed his mind about genetically modified crops from being an...
Detroit: A Raisin in the Sun? by Malik Yakini 15 Dec 2012 | 11:59 pm
Council member Ken Cockrel must be trippin! On Tuesday, December 11, after he, along with Saunteel Jenkins, James Tate, Gary Brown, and Charles Pugh, voted to approve the ill-conceived Hantz land sale...
