Sandy’s Blackouts Leave 3.5 Million Customers Lacking Power | Mark Chediak, Benjamin Haas and Jim Polson

A fourth day of blackouts for about 3.5 million homes and businesses in the U.S. Northeast taxed the patience of city and state officials concerned that utilities are moving too slowly to repair the ...

Occupy Wall Street Leading Massive, Volunteer-Powered Recovery Efforts in New York | The Troubadour

Photo credit: Mickey Z. Nov. 2, 2012 (Daily Kos) -- They are thousands-strong and growing: entering devastated neighborhoods yet to see outside help from established aid organizations. They are staff ...

The Tribes of New York: Back to the future? | Mickey Z.

Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Oct. 31, 2012 “I don’t know how to save the world. I don’t have the answers or The Answer. I hold no secret knowledge as to how to fix the mistak ...

New York City floods as Sandy slams into eastern U.S. | Anna Louie Sussman and Michael Erman

The skyline of lower Manhattan sits in darkness after a preventive power outage in New York October 29, 2012. Hurricane Sandy could be the biggest storm to hit the United States mainland when it come ...

Sandy Strengthens as Hurricane Barrels Toward New Jersey | Esme E. Deprez and Brian K. Sullivan

Oct. 29, 2012 -- NEW YORK (Bloomberg) -- Hurricane Sandy strengthened on its path toward New Jersey, where it is predicted to make landfall today while bringing a life-threatening storm surge as it w ...

The Children Are Still Dying: Violence is Not News | Ramzy Baroud

Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust August 22, 2012 Somewhere in my home I have a set of photo albums I rarely go near. I fear the flood of cruel memories that might be evoked from looking at the countl ...

We Are Writing the Epilogue to the World We Knew |John Atcheson

Aug. 31, 2012 (Common Dreams) -- The data continue to roll in, and they are telling us we are in the process of bringing an end to the world we evolved in, and creating a new, harsher world. We will ...

Greenhouse gas levels pass symbolic 400ppm CO2 milestone | AP

The Arctic Ocean with leads and cracks in the ice cover of north of Alaska. Photograph: Courtesy Eric Kort/Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA Monitoring stations in the Arctic detect record levels of car ...

Fukushima Radiation Found in Tuna Off California | Common Dreams

May 29, 2012 (Common Dreams) -- Detectable amounts of cesium-137 and cesium-134 were found in bluefin tuna caught off the coast of California about four months after the Fukushima nuclear disaster in ...

The Top Short-Term Threat to Humanity: The Fuel Pools of Fukushima | WashingtonsBlog

Nuclear love. Ben Heine The Greatest Single Threat to Humanity: Fuel Pool Number 4 Apr. 7, 2012 (Washington's Blog) -- We noted days after the Japanese earthquake that the biggest threat was from the ...

And the Country Went to Hell (David Glenn Cox )

David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust Nov. 5, 2011 -- George Orwell wrote in his ground breaking novel 1984, “He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past ...