Monthly Archives: February 2010

Spike in Airline Prices

Spike in Airline Prices

February 28, 2010

The last night of February 2010 has me looking forward and asking the difficult questions about just what I'm going to focus on, push myself to do that is new and innovative, and where I will take this here journalistic project as the year matures. What topic in what...

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ctrp328 Voices of a People’s History

ctrp328 Voices of a People’s History

February 24, 2010

In keeping with the tradition started by Howard Zinn. The following podcast is from an event held here in Amsterdam on February 16th, 2010. Voices of a People's History of the US features those voices that we normally don't get to hear from in the history books. Speeches by...

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Starving Mongolia

Starving Mongolia

February 21, 2010

In two months time I expect to be traveling through Siberia and Mongolia.  As I read up on the places I might pass through and what citizen journalism is going on there, I've run into the ongoing humanitarian disaster in Mongolia.  Following a summer drought and currently one of...

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ctrp327 Obama’s Nuclear Push

ctrp327 Obama’s Nuclear Push

February 17, 2010

During his presidency GW Bush spoke openly about a return to building nuclear powerplants in the US. Now, president Obama says he's going forward with those plans, calling Nuclear Power a clean solution for America. However despite the pro-nuclear policies of both presidents, projects are costing double and triple...

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Voices of A People’s History Night

Voices of A People’s History Night

February 14, 2010

Friends and readers in the Amsterdam area and beyond, I've been hard at work planning, reading, and organizing the details of a reading-performance even in honor of Howard Zinn and his greatest work - A People's History of the United States.  I will be MC'ing the event, doing my...

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