Keep fighting the good fight

…at every turn, fight the corporation. Fight the corporations that control health care, your health care. Fight the corporations that control the wars. Fight the corporations that control your food and what is in it. Fight the corporations that own your politicians and Congress. Fight. Fight the corporations that advertise to your kids and you [...]

More Proof that the FDA Is a Tool of Big Corporations

By JULIE SCELFO of the New York Times
Published: December 23, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/24/dining/24chem.html
 
WEEKS after its own advisory board accused the Food and Drug Administration of failing to adequately consider research about the dangers of bisphenol-A, found in many plastic baby bottles, plastic food containers and metal can linings, the agency has agreed to reconsider the issue.
The F.D.A.’s draft risk assessment [...]

Have Realistic Expectations: Obama Is Only One Man

With the wave of idealism and optimism that seems to be sweeping the country in the wake of the election of Barack Obama to the presidency, it will be helpful to all of us hopeful souls to keep these sobering ideas in mind, for Barack Obama has a tremendous mountain in front of him, one that promises [...]