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Shrinking the Technosphere, Part I
Shrinking the Technosphere, Part I On September 28, while addressing the UN General Assembly, Putin proposed “implementing naturelike technologies, which will make it possible to restore the balance between the biosphere and the technosphere.” It is necessary to do so to combat catastrophic global climate change, because, according to Putin, CO2 emissions cuts, even if implemented […]
Imperial Failure: Lessons From Afghanistan and Iraq
Imperial Failure: Lessons From Afghanistan and Iraq The photographs in the New York Times told contrasting stories last week. One showed two Taliban soldiers in civilian clothes and sandals, with their rifles, standing in front of a captured U.N. vehicle. The Taliban forces had taken the northern provincial capital of Kunduz. The other photograph showed Afghan army […]
Why Are The IMF, The UN, The BIS And Citibank All Warning That An Economic Crisis Could Be Imminent?
Why Are The IMF, The UN, The BIS And Citibank All Warning That An Economic Crisis Could Be Imminent? The warnings are getting louder. Is anybody listening? For months, I have been documenting on my website how the global financial system is absolutely primed for a crisis, and now some of the most important financial institutions in […]
The World’s Silliest Empire
The World’s Silliest Empire I couldn’t help but notice that over the past few weeks the Empire has become extremely silly—so silly that I believe it deserves the title of the World’s Silliest Empire. One could claim that it has been silly before, but recent developments seem to signal a quantum leap in its silliness […]
Syria Ground War Imminent? U.S. Accuses Russia Of Launching Syrian Land Campaign
Syria Ground War Imminent? U.S. Accuses Russia Of Launching Syrian Land Campaign While the US was been surprised and angered by the stunningly fast turn of events in Syria where in the span of less than a month Russia unleashed a massive, Syria-based airborne campaign against what it says are ISIS terrorists, even as the […]
US Bombs Afghanistan Hospital, Kills 9 Civilians, Injures 37; Tosses It Off As “Collateral Damage”
US Bombs Afghanistan Hospital, Kills 9 Civilians, Injures 37; Tosses It Off As “Collateral Damage” Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse for US foreign policy, or for the credibility of the US state department to slide further, it got much worse. Less than a day after US ambassador to the UN, uber-warhawk Samantha Power […]
Giving Saudis a Pass on Yemen War
Giving Saudis a Pass on Yemen War By supporting Saudi Arabia’s war on Yemen, the U.S. is again finding itself on the same side with Al Qaeda in a Mideast conflict, a troubling pattern driven by a compulsion to excuse actions by U.S. “allies” no matter how outrageous, as ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar explains. […]
Leaving Our Children Nothing
Leaving Our Children Nothing Our generation has a unique opportunity. If we set our minds to it, we could be the first in human history to leave our children nothing: no greenhouse-gas emissions, no poverty, and no biodiversity loss. That is the course that world leaders set when they met at the United Nations in […]
Saudi Arabia sinks UN war crimes probe in Yemen, Washington stays silent
Saudi Arabia sinks UN war crimes probe in Yemen, Washington stays silent The Netherlands dropped their bid to establish an independent UN-led probe into alleged war crimes in Yemen, yielding to an alternative resolution proposed by Saudi Arabia, which stands accused of causing most of the civilian deaths in the conflict. The Saudis are leading […]
Value in Reading Others’ Propaganda
Value in Reading Others’ Propaganda U.S. policymakers view their country as the “exceptional” and “indispensable” global policeman but shut their eyes to how other nations see the world, thus blinding America to emerging problems and possible solutions, as ex-CIA official Graham E. Fuller explains. All countries do it — promoting their own societies in ideal terms in […]
Tech Company Censorship – Apple Bans App Cataloguing Every U.S. Drone Strike; Facebook Blocks Ad for “Negativity”
Tech Company Censorship – Apple Bans App Cataloguing Every U.S. Drone Strike; Facebook Blocks Ad for “Negativity” One thing I’ve learned from my three and a half years of writing publicly on the internet, is you never know which posts are going to go viral. Nothing proves this point more than last week’s post, The UN […]
WikiLeaks cables implicate UK & Saudi Arabia in secret deal to secure UNHRC seats
WikiLeaks cables implicate UK & Saudi Arabia in secret deal to secure UNHRC seats Saudi Foreign Minister, Prince Saud al-Faisal (R) and British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond © Faisal Al Nasser / Reuters Two years after the controversial appointment of Saudi Arabia, one of the world’s leading human rights offenders, to the UN human rights […]
The UN: Pretending to Oppose War for 70 Years
The UN: Pretending to Oppose War for 70 Years The United Nation’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals don’t just ignore the fact that development isn’t sustainable; they revel in it. One of the goals is spreading energy use. Another is economic growth. Another is preparation for climate chaos (not preventing it, but dealing with it). And […]
Obama Deifies American Hegemony
Obama Deifies American Hegemony Today is the 70th anniversary of the UN. It is not clear how much good the UN has done. Some UN Blue Hemet peacekeeping operations had limited success. But mainly Washington has used the UN for war, such as the Korean War and Washington’s Cold War against the Soviet Union. In […]
The world could completely abandon fossil fuels by 2050
The world could completely abandon fossil fuels by 2050 Climate summit commitments judged insufficient to avoid warming, divestment from fossil fuel investment soars into the trillions, and the world could be running on 100 per cent renewable energy by 2050. Warming unavoidable? Just over two months from now, representatives from nations around the world will […]
