Twitter This Commentary In The News: Thanks this morning to ChrisM, my MP3Angel, for supplying audio files of the news and commentary. Due to time constraints there will be no text news synopsis this morning... However, there are a couple of news items to note: Here's something I took note of a few years ago (2005) that surfacing again in more mainstream sources. Mining and industrial pollution is upsetting the genetics of Canada's indigenous community: Dramatic decline of male births in indigenous communities tied to industrial pollution

Most startling is the sharp drop of boys among the Aamjiwnaang Anishinaabek: “A greater rate of change than has been reported previously anywhere,” said a 2005 study published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives. It’s the kind of attention this tiny community of 850 never wanted. In the beginning, they could not conceive what was happening in their community. Their pain and questions began in 2002, when biologist Michael Gilbertson found elevated levels of PCBs, pesticides and heavy metals on the reserve. Gilbertson asked if they had more girls than boy children. Tribal members were first baffled, and then aghast as they realized that they had enough girls for three baseball teams, but not enough boys for even one team. [In Full @ Indian Country Today]

Foreign Policy Magazine reports on the deteriorating US-Israel relationship after Israel OKs more housing for IT'S citizens on Palestinian territory, an action which envoy George Mitchell had claimed: "What you're doing here undermines the security of our troops who are fighting in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. That endangers us and it endangers regional peace.":

U.S. envoy George Mitchell has indefinitely postponed a planned trip to the Middle East in the midst of what Israel's ambassador to the United States has called "most severe crisis in U.S.-Israeli relations" in decades. [In Full @ Foreign Policy Morning Brief]

Also, see this history lesson from Juan Cole @ Informed Comment (Professor Cole teaches Middle East & Persian history at the University of Michigan) The Map: The Story of Palestinian Nationhood Thwarted After the League of Nations Recognized It (click the map for the posting) Isn't it adorable? AFRICOM's First War: U.S. Directs Large-Scale Offensive In Somalia

"...the New York Times leaked U.S. military plans for the current offensive in Somalia on March 5 in a report titled “U.S. Aiding Somalia in Its Plan to Retake Its Capital.” (Note that the Transitional Federal Government is presented as Somalia itself and Mogadishu as its capital.)" [In Full]

...and then there's this: Corporate Personhood Goes To DC - Meet Murray Hill Inc, the first corporation to run for Congress in the United States -30-
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