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Someone Tell a Reporter: the Rich are Destroying the Earth
Someone Tell a Reporter: the Rich are Destroying the Earth “I Said Why? They Said They Didn’t Know” Let history record that on Wednesday, September 6th, 2017, 14 days after climate change-fueled Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas and 4 days before Hurricane Irma hit southern Florida, the climate-denying President of the United States Donald […]
Experts for the People—Shut Out by the Mass Media
Experts for the People—Shut Out by the Mass Media Ever wonder how the television, radio and newspaper people select whom they are going to interview or get quotes from when they are reporting the news or producing a feature? I do. What I’ve learned is that they go to guests that are connected with the […]
America’s Democracy Hypocrisy
America’s Democracy Hypocrisy In late February, Venezuela’s government began accepting presidential candidate registrations and announced a snap legislative election for April. The country’s opposition denounces the process as a sham and Maduro as a dictator, both of which may be true. Oddly, a third voice — the US government — also weighed in. Per US […]
The Authoritarians Who Silence Syria Questions
The Authoritarians Who Silence Syria Questions Photo by watchsmart | CC BY 2.0 I am loath to draw more attention to the kind of idiocy that passes for informed comment nowadays from academics and mainstream journalists. Recently I lambasted Prof Richard Carver for his arguments against BDS that should have gained him an F for logic in […]
Washington has Engaged in Information Warfare, Including Fake News and Trolling, for Years
Washington has Engaged in Information Warfare, Including Fake News and Trolling, for Years The howling in government and the corporate media and among many liberals about an alleged Russian information war, with bots, trolls and fake news being placed in social media to mislead and incite Americans against each other, might lead one think, like […]
When Empire’s Die
When Empire’s Die When empires begin to die, their public acts–in sharp contrast to the ponderous, stately sobriety of their behavior while ascendant–tend to be marked by queer and pathetic eruptions of idiocy, bathos, and mania. Though it can’t be known when our last Imperial Clown will douse the last lights of The Exceptional Empire […]
Junk Planet: Is Earth the Largest Garbage Dump in the Universe?
Junk Planet: Is Earth the Largest Garbage Dump in the Universe? Is Earth the largest garbage dump in the Universe? I don’t know. But it’s a safe bet that Earth would be a contender were such a competition to be held. Let me explain why. To start, just listing the types of rubbish generated by […]
Waiting for the Debris Flows
Waiting for the Debris Flows In J.M. Coetzee’s 1980 novel, Waiting for the Barbarians, his characters sit around in an isolated colonial fort in a nameless desert country, awaiting their destiny – an invasion of the barbarians. The novel concerns its characters’ slow realization of their complicity, as agents of the Empire, in their fate. Something […]
Their Meddlers and Ours
Their Meddlers and Ours Photo by Satish Krishnamurthy | CC BY 2.0 By the end of World War II, the United States had become a serial meddler in the affairs of the nations of the world, friend and foe alike. American intelligence services took particular aim at Third World and Western countries with large Communist […]
The Coming Wars to End All Wars
The Coming Wars to End All Wars “The compulsive hatred of Putin by many who have almost zero idea about Putin or Russian history is disproportionate to any rational analysis, but not surprising. Trump and Putin are like weird doppelgangers in the liberal imagination.” – John Steppling, “Trump, Putin, and Nikolas Cruz Walk into a […]
The Great Danger of Anthropocentricity
The Great Danger of Anthropocentricity Photo by Becker1999 | CC BY 2.0 Evincing an almost unbelievable ignorance of environmental science, last week Scott Pruitt, President Donald Trump’s head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, told reporters “we know humans have most flourished during times of warming trends. So I think there are assumptions made that […]
Nuclear Nonproliferation, American Style
Nuclear Nonproliferation, American Style Photo by Gwydion M. Williams | CC BY 2.0 “U.S. Chases a Saudi Deal” ran the front page headline in the February 21 Wall Street Journal. The story continued: The Trump administration is pursuing a deal to sell nuclear reactors to Saudi Arabia despite the kingdom’s refusal to accept the most […]
The Anthropocene’s Birthday, or the Birth-Year of Human-Accelerated Climate Change
The Anthropocene’s Birthday, or the Birth-Year of Human-Accelerated Climate Change Scientists have found a major spike in the amount of Carbon-14 within the tree rings of “The Loneliest Tree In The World,” which ring corresponds to October-December 1965. This tree is a Sitka Spruce, a species from the American Northwest (and into Canada) that was […]
Meddling for Empire: the CIA Comes Clean
Meddling for Empire: the CIA Comes Clean Photo by Christopher Michel | CC BY 2.0 “We’ve been doing this kind of thing [electoral meddling] since the CIA was created in 1947.” Loch K. Johnson, New York Times, Feb 17, 2018 Electoral meddling has become the gruel of US politics for months, and more servings are […]
