Cheerios and cholesterol -- don't believe the hype, FDA warns
If you are eating Cheerios because you believe that it will dramatically lower your cholesterol, then forget about it.
Good election news for labor in Texas
Reports from the three large Texas cities which held local elections May 9 are good news for labor. The Dallas AFL-CIO endorsed 6 candidates for City Council. Five of them won outright and the sixth goes into a runoff with the highest vote count. Far more interesting was labor’s call for a “no” vote on two propositions.
US may have decade-long recesssion
Washington, May 12 (Prensa Latina) The US Nobel laureate in Economy Paul Krugman said his country could confront a decade of zero growth if more aggressive incentive measures are not employed informed Economy Nobel laureate, Paul Krugman. Another Nobel personality, Joseph Stiglitz, also predicted recently that the US economic crisis will be long lasting.
The role of psychologists in torture
As a psychologist, I have been appalled by the complicity of some psychologists in torturing detainees in former President Bush’s “War on Terror.” How could it be that professionals trained to treat mental illness could be partners in a program to create mental illness? How could there be any debate on the issue, given the clearly stated ethical standards of Psychologists issued by the American Psychological Association (APA) which prohibit any abuse of people?
Thousands join in candlelight vigils across California
More than a thousand California workers, interfaith leaders, community allies and elected officials kicked the California campaign to pass the Employee Free Choice Act into overdrive in recent days by participating in statewide overnight vigils.
A thousand scholars urge Congress to pass Employee Free Choice Act
More than a thousand U.S. scholars nationwide are urging Congress to pass the Employee Free Choice Act labor law reform
What now on health care reform?
With the new balance of forces in Washington, a path has opened for us to achieve a first, true step towards turning around our nation’s health care crisis and achieving quality, affordable health care for everyone.
Retired shingle mill worker contributes to PWW fund goal
FORKS, WA---It took Roberta Wood a 2,000 mile plane ride, two ferries, two transit bus rides and a long drive around Lake Crescent to visit Carl Lausche in the West End of Clallam County, WA. Lausche, 86, lives in a comfortable new mobile home in a clearing behind his daughter Linda’s house surrounded by miles of deep evergreen forest, mountains, and glacial rivers that teem with salmon and steelhead. The region is famed for receiving 114 inches, 12 feet of rain annually.
VIDEO Comedian Wanda Sykes skewers Rush Limbaugh
Comedian Wanda Sykes pulled no punches as she skewered extremist right-wing talk show host Rush Limbaugh at the White House Correspondents' Dinner -- accusing him of treason for saying he wants President Barack Obama to fail.
A nightmare interrupted: Home foreclosure is postponed
OAKLAND, Calif. -- When does keeping a promise turn into a nightmare? When it involves a home whose price has ballooned beyond reason, a realtor who fails to make loan terms clear, and a lender who refuses to modify soaring mortgage costs.
