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Looking for a Glass of Water and a Place to Shit
Looking for a Glass of Water and a Place to Shit Photo by woodleywonderworks | CC by 2.0 A recent Brown University Study showed that, between 2001 and 2016, the cost of wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Pakistan has cost the US $3.6 trillion. ~ Ramzy Baroud Imagine if you will that the U.S. […]
Hidden Danger of Ecological Collapse
Hidden Danger of Ecological Collapse Photo by Phil Fiddyment | CC by 2.0 A recent landmark study that investigated alarming loss of insects is leaving scientists dumbfounded, deeply troubled, potentially the biggest-ever existential threat, risking ecosystem collapse too soon for comfort. In contrast to global warming, this may be much more imminently dangerous across-the-board to […]
Censorship in the Digital Age
Censorship in the Digital Age The grand experiment with western democracy, badly listing thanks to broadsides from profiteering oligarchs, may finally run ashore on the rocks of thought crime. In the uneven Steven Spielberg project Minority Report, starring excitable scientologist Tom Cruise, Cruise plays a futuristic policeman who investigates pre-crimes and stops them before they […]
Censorship in the Digital Age
Censorship in the Digital Age The grand experiment with western democracy, badly listing thanks to broadsides from profiteering oligarchs, may finally run ashore on the rocks of thought crime. In the uneven Steven Spielberg project Minority Report, starring excitable scientologist Tom Cruise, Cruise plays a futuristic policeman who investigates pre-crimes and stops them before they […]
Trump is Moving Toward War With Iran
Trump is Moving Toward War With Iran With his Iran speech U.S. President Trump has taken a huge step into uncharted territories. One that implies a 60-75% risk of leading to a US attack on Iran. Behind him stands the hardline militarists whom he has himself appointed. Secondly, neo-conservative individuals and think tanks who have […]
Harvard, the CIA, and All That
Harvard, the CIA, and All That Members of the Center for International Affairs, 1958–1959 by Center for International Affairs with Henry Kissinger and Robert R. Bowie front and center After Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government rescinded its invitation to Army whistle-blower Chelsea Manning (whom Obama sprung from the brig by pardoning her), a […]
Russian Bots, Corporate Sovereigns, Facebook and the Fall of the Republic
Russian Bots, Corporate Sovereigns, Facebook and the Fall of the Republic So we’re told Russia spent a hundred grand on Facebook ads. Some money into Instagram’s pocket from the Muscovite Bear, too. Leaving aside for the moment the relative paucity of alleged Kremlin social-media-based influence peddling (considered against the billions in Super PAC and dark […]
The Six ‘Secret’ Tactics of Empire
The Six ‘Secret’ Tactics of Empire The 6 ‘secret’ tactics of empire are strategies of change used by governments, usually covertly, to attain political or military ends through means not normally acceptable to the populace as a whole. The strategies are as follows: 1/ False Flag Attacks 2/ Coercive Engineered Migration 3/ Colour Revolutions 4/ […]
The Face of Surveillance: Malcolm Turnbull’s Recognition Database
The Face of Surveillance: Malcolm Turnbull’s Recognition Database Never miss an opportunity in the security business. A massacre in Las Vegas has sent its tremors through the establishments, and made its way across the Pacific into the corridors of Canberra and the Prime Minister’s office. Australia’s Malcolm Turnbull is very keen to make hay out […]
The Seeds of Agroecology and Common Ownership
The Seeds of Agroecology and Common Ownership The increasingly globalised industrial food system that transnational agribusiness promotes is not feeding the world and is responsible for some of the planet’s most pressing political, social and environmental crises. Localised, traditional methods of food production have given way to globalised supply chains dominated by transnational companies policies and actions which […]
Nuclear Fallacies: the Problems With James Hansen’s Promotion of Generation IV Reactors
Nuclear Fallacies: the Problems With James Hansen’s Promotion of Generation IV Reactors Photo by Lennart Tange | CC BY 2.0 Dr James Hansen is rightly admired for his scientific and political work drawing attention to climate change. His advocacy of nuclear power ‒ and in particular novel Generation IV nuclear concepts ‒ deserves serious scrutiny. In a nutshell, Dr […]
North Korea and Yemen: the Costs of Empire
North Korea and Yemen: the Costs of Empire Photo by Tom Thai | CC BY 2.0 As the war of words between the governments of Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un has spiraled into child-like name calling and escalating military threats, the world shudders at the possible consequences. The Pentagon has reportedly estimated that a […]
The Great Acceleration Death Trap
The Great Acceleration Death Trap The Great Acceleration, post WWII humanity forcing the earth system, is charging ahead at exponential speed, including record temps year-after-year-after year-after year and on and on it goes, relentlessly. Fatally, many parts of the world become uninhabitable with a 2°-4°C increase in temps, too hot for human physiology. Under the […]
“The Rule of Law Such As Ours” (And as Imposed in Catalonia)
“The Rule of Law Such As Ours” (And as Imposed in Catalonia) Photo by thierry ehrmann The Spanish prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, referring to the “illegal” Catalan referendum on independence slated to take place on October 1, opined, “This illegal plan of rupture has no place in a democratic state under the rule of law […]
