Why the Real Victor in Campaign 2012 Won’t Be Obama or Romney Cross-posted with TomDispatch.com. Now that Mitt Romney is the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party, the media is already handicapping the presidential election big time, and the neck-and-neck opinion polls are pouring in. But whether President Obama gets his second term or Romney [...]
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Malcolm Wittenberg: Spotlight on (Sea)Food Safety and Transparency
As a company that promotes the consumption of clean, safe seafood as part of a healthy diet, it’s our belief that consumers have the right to know what’s in the food they’re eating — this belief represents one of the core values of Safe Harbor and one of the overarching principles that drives our business. [...]
You Tell Us: When Did The Spirit of the 60′s End?
Last week James Franco wrote an anecdotal piece on his experience watching “Gimme Shelter,” a film by the Maysles Brothers that involved coverage of the violent incidents that occured at the Altamont concert in 1969. The film, according to Franco, ended up sounding like “the death knell for the flower power of the 1960s.” An [...]
Hayden Bixby: The President and the Privileged
You might have heard already that President Obama visited my town last week. I confess that I didn’t know much in advance that he was coming… I was just lucky. Lucky that I was trolling the Seattle Theater Group’s website for 2012-2013 season tickets just in time, and privileged that the cost to attend Obama’s [...]
Marielena Hincapié: Department of Justice Lawsuit Against Arpaio Sends Strong Message
Just one day after some members of the House of Representatives voted to prevent the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) from doing its job by prohibiting funding for its lawsuits challenging state anti-immigrant laws like Arizona’s SB 1070, the DOJ sent a strong message that it is still very much in the business of administering [...]

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