Opinions
Egypt’s unchecked repression
Editor's note: A year ago today, The Post published the following op-ed by the Egyptian scholar Saad Eddin Ibrahim. This month, an Egyptian judge sentenced the 69-year-old Ibrahim to two years in...
Water everywhere, and not a drop to grow
Limited availability of fresh water is often overlooked as a cause of food scarcity and environmental decline, according to Colin Chartres. Governments should be ramping up efforts to make sure we have enough to grow crops as well as enough to drink, he argues....
Egyptian judge sentences exiled dissident to prison for writings in ‘foreign press’
CAIRO, Aug. 2 -- A prominent dissident who has urged the United States to tie financial aid to Egypt to democratic reform was sentenced to two years in prison Saturday....
Limited availability of fresh water is often overlooked as a cause of food scarcity and environmental decline, according to Colin Chartres. Government...
A story from the upside-down world of immigration and labor: A slaughterhouse in Postville, Iowa, develops an ugly reputation for abusing animals and workers. Reports of dirty, dangerous conditions at the Agriprocessors kosher meatpacking plant accumulate for years,...
Food stamp inflation adjustment lags, resulting in inadequate benefits
Rosenbaum is a Senior Policy Analyst with the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities specializing in food stamp issues. This article first appeared on the CBPP website and may be viewed at http://www.cbpp.org/7-22-0...
The G8 in Hokkaido: an exercise in escapism by John Samuel, ActionAid
John Samuel is a social activist and the International Director of ActionAid. This article first appeared in Pambazuka News and may be viewed at http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/49362...
After 75 years, the working poor still struggle for a fair wage
At the height of the Great Depression, industry convinced President Franklin Roosevelt and Congress to enact a law allowing companies to collude to drive up prices....
“Local” purchasing of food aid? It may be good to think twice about this idea.
May 30, 2008 There is a great deal of concern at this time about rising food prices, shortages of food and the inability of poor people around the world to obtain the food they need for themselves and their families. These are serious problems that deserve both immediate and longer-term attention...
Both Rumsfeld and the current Defense Secretary Gates share the long war fallacy. Iraq has shown the limits of U.S. power. We must change America, not...
Donald Rumsfeld is today a discredited and widely reviled figure. Robert Gates, Rumsfeld's successor as Defense secretary, is generally admired for manifesting qualities that Rumsfeld lacked -- a willingness to listen not least among them....
Sweetheart deal: the latest farm bill outrage is a plan to prop up sugar producers
THE DEADLINE for completion of a new farm bill has been pushed back to May 16. But the endless wrangling over a piece of legislation that Congress once hoped to finish in 2007 has not induced a significant change in the thinking of those who regard it as an opportunity to lock in lush new benefits f...
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