Many Americans are celebrating the holiday season and enjoying the fruitsof another fall harvest. Yet many of the foods, in fact one third of them,are now threatened by an emerging pollination crisis. It is a virtualsecret that one of America’s most important pollinators, the honey bee isbeing decimated.
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By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan
On March 21, 1915, a motion picture was screened for the first time inside the White House. President Woodrow Wilson sat down to watch D.W. Griffith’s “The Birth of a Nation," considered one of the most nakedly racist of all time. One hundred years later, another film was screened at the White House, this time at the invitation of the first African-American president. The film was “Selma.”
By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan
This week marks the 13th anniversary of the arrival of the first post-9/11 prisoners to Guantánamo Bay, the most notorious prison on the planet. This grim anniversary, and the beginning of normalization of diplomatic relations between the United States and Cuba, serves as a reminder that we need to permanently close the prison and return the land to its rightful owners, the Cuban people. It is time to put an end to this dark chapter of United States history.
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