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Julian Assange and the Fate of Journalism
Julian Assange and the Fate of Journalism Photograph Source Jeanne Menjoulet | CC BY 2.0 Julian Assange is the Australian founder of Wikileaks—a website dedicated to the public’s right to know what governments and other powerful organizations are doing. Wikileaks pursues this goal by posting revelatory documents, often acquired unofficially, that bring to light the […]
If Ireland Can Reject Fossil Fuels, Your Town Can Too
If Ireland Can Reject Fossil Fuels, Your Town Can Too On Thursday, July 12th, a small, rainy island in the North Atlantic proved it was on the right side of history. The Republic of Ireland passed a bill to divest its $370 million worth of investments in around 150 fossil fuel companies within five years. […]
Drilling ANWR: One of Our Last Links to the Wild World is in Danger
Drilling ANWR: One of Our Last Links to the Wild World is in Danger I can still remember the first time I saw tracks left behind by seismic testing in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. It was the mid-1990s and I had been guiding a group of people on a float trip across the coastal […]
Murphy’s Law: Big Tech Must Serve as Censorship Subcontractors
Murphy’s Law: Big Tech Must Serve as Censorship Subcontractors In a recent tweet, US Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) warned that “Infowars is the tip of a giant iceberg of hate and lies that uses sites like Facebook and YouTube to tear our nation apart.” His solution: “These companies must do more than take down one […]
Corporate Media: the Enemy of the People
Corporate Media: the Enemy of the People I detest the malignantly racist, sexist, narcissistic, and authoritarian pathological liar and bully Donald Trump on many different levels, and I share none of his sick world view, but the corporate media really is, well (to use Trump’s recurrent phrase), “the enemy of the people.” Here below is […]
Hothouse Earth
Hothouse Earth An interesting new study: “Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene,” Will Steffen, Johan Rockström et al, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Aug. 6, 2018 lays out the pathway for Earth entering a Hothouse Climate State. “Our planet is still in danger of becoming a ‘Hothouse’ Earth despite our […]
The Absolute Futility of ‘Global Dominance’ in the 21st Century
The Absolute Futility of ‘Global Dominance’ in the 21st Century It seems certain that the foolish chest-pounders now in charge of our nation have found a time machine to transport them back to 19th century where they have decided to mimic the slogan of faded English imperialism that “the sun never sets on the British […]
Is Bankruptcy in Your Future?
Is Bankruptcy in Your Future? Older Americans are going bankrupt in record numbers. Under a front page headline, “Bankruptcy Booms among Older Americans as Safety Net Frays,” the August 6 New York Timesrelates how the rate at which Americans 65 and older file for personal bankruptcy has tripled since 1991. This data comes from a new study […]
A Last Ditch Strategy to Fight for Human Survival
A Last Ditch Strategy to Fight for Human Survival There is almost unanimous agreement among climate scientists and organizations – that is, 97% of over 10,000 climate scientists and the various scientific organizations engaged in climate science research – that human beings have caused a dramatic increase in the amount of carbon dioxide, methane and […]
Climate Change Bites Big Business
Climate Change Bites Big Business “Electoral politics is not the solution to the Earth-threatening problems we face.” – Jeffrey St. Clair, 10 August 2018, Counter Punch There is now no non-violent way to reverse climate change. Even with morally unrestrained action, it is probable that there is now no physical possibility of reversing climate change. […]
The Media and Our “Ignorant, Credulous and Propagandized People”
The Media and Our “Ignorant, Credulous and Propagandized People” I find it sad and sickening that most Americans, and the corporate media that shapes them, are more concerned about the effects of Russian “meddling” on our “democracy” than they are about our own home-grown oligarchs, who are not only meddling, but have bought Congress and […]
The Lasting Condition: Drought in Australia
The Lasting Condition: Drought in Australia Humans are a funny species. They create settlements along fault lines that, on moving, can create catastrophe, killing thousands. They construct homes facing rivers that will, at some point, break their banks, carrying of their precious property. Importantly, they return in the aftermath. Existence continues. The same follows certain […]
Why the INFOWARS Purge is Nothing to Celebrate
Why the INFOWARS Purge is Nothing to Celebrate I am a free speech absolutist by nature. Short of purposefully screaming fire in a crowded theater with the intent of causing mayhem … I just like having it all out there … from the wackiest religious tripe to the most virulent racist poison. For me, it’s […]
The Death of the Investigative Journalist
The Death of the Investigative Journalist The Yes Minister series portraying the skulduggery of Whitehall during the Thatcher years throws up a salient reminder how certain things do not mix. Should the art portfolio be slotted alongside television? Probably not, but politics is politics. Civil servants will intrigue and seek to influence the minister of the day […]
