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Fukushima Today
Fukushima Today Throughout the world, the name Fukushima has become synonymous with nuclear disaster and running for the hills. Yet, Fukushima may be one of the least understood disasters in modern times, as nobody knows how to fix neither the problem nor the true dimension of the damage. Thus, Fukushima is in uncharted territory, a […]
Spain Says “No”
Spain Says “No” For the third time in a year, the tight-fisted, austerity policies of the European Union (EU) took a beating, as Spanish voters crushed their rightwing government and overturned four decades of two-party reign. Following in the footsteps of Greek and Portuguese voters earlier this year, Spaniards soundly rejected the economic formula of […]
Imperial Arrogance: Tony Blair, Qaddafi and Torture
Imperial Arrogance: Tony Blair, Qaddafi and Torture Tony Blair and Jack Straw. That former British prime minister Tony Blair is a poster boy for corruption, mendacity, opportunism, and ruthless ambition is by now a received truth. The man who took Britain into the war in Iraq on the coattails of the Bush administration in 2003, […]
The American Media: Pandering to Bias and Ignorance
The American Media: Pandering to Bias and Ignorance The Texas board of education didn’t find anything wrong with a world geography textbook that said slaves from Africa were workers, but that immigrants from northern Europe were indentured servants. This is the same school board that five years ago demanded that textbooks emphasize that slavery was […]
Who Owns the Federal Reserve Bank and Why is It Shrouded in Myths and Mysteries?
Who Owns the Federal Reserve Bank and Why is It Shrouded in Myths and Mysteries? “It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.” — Henry Ford “Give me control of a Nation’s […]
Brave New Food: GEs and Clones are Heading to the Dinner Table
Brave New Food: GEs and Clones are Heading to the Dinner Table Consumers, safety activists, Big Food, biotech companies and many of the US’s importing and exporting partners have been closely watching to see if the FDA would approve the genetically engineered AquAdvantage Salmon, which it did last month. Of course unlabeled GE crops are […]
Paris Climate Deal: How Could They Do This to Us?
Paris Climate Deal: How Could They Do This to Us? On Sunday morning, 13 December 2015, the 2015 Paris Climate Summit (COP21) finally wound to close as the last decisions were agreed. At almost 1 a.m. observers representing youth, women, labour unions, research centers, indigenous peoples, and business were asked their opinion. Most media had […]
The False Promise of Nuclear Fusion
The False Promise of Nuclear Fusion There have been some pretty radioactive climate change ideas making the rounds at the COP21 talks in Paris. Team Hansen’s wildly unrealistic notion of switching on 61 new nuclear reactors a year was taking the cake until an even fruitier one reared its familiar head: the nuclear chimera known […]
The Paris Climate Accords Will Cause the Planet to Burn
The Paris Climate Accords Will Cause the Planet to Burn Paris. The Paris agreement, according to Pablo Solón, a veteran of climate negotiations, “will be an agreement that will burn up the planet.” The result of the COP21 (Twenty-first United Nations Climate Change Conference), which began on Monday, Nov. 30 and will end on Dec. […]
Distortion, Revisionism & the Liberal Media
Distortion, Revisionism & the Liberal Media American readers will be familiar with the enduring notion that the media has a liberal bias. Sensible ones will know that this notion is absurd, or at least requires a rather loose working definition of the word “liberal”. There isn’t quite the same feeling about the media in Britain, […]
Playing Politics While the Planet Sizzles
Playing Politics While the Planet Sizzles The Republican Senate just voted to reject plans by President Obama and the EPA to dramatically reduce emissions from coal power plants. This is reactionary politics. It is also political theater that plays right into the hands of the President. This allows President Obama to create the illusion that […]
The Left and Right Must Stop the Establishment’s Perpetual War Machine
The Left and Right Must Stop the Establishment’s Perpetual War Machine In the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, some of us tried to raise questions of U.S. foreign policy. I got my mic cut on O’Reilly’s show. Others got far worse — a friend basically felt he had to move out of his neighborhood he was […]
Verging on Plutocracy? Getting Real About the Unelected Dictatorship
Verging on Plutocracy? Getting Real About the Unelected Dictatorship In politics as in medicine, excessively mild remedies are typically based on overly placid diagnoses. Look, for example, at the highly esteemed Columbia University historian Eric Foner’s recent letter of congratulations and advice to Democratic Party presidential candidate Bernie Sanders in The Nation. As I have argued […]
Paris Attack Will Foster an Orwellian Police State
Paris Attack Will Foster an Orwellian Police State Since November 13, 2015, France entered a state of shock. Friday the 13th will no longer be only associated with exploitation Hollywood horror flicks, but will become forever linked in the collective psyche to the mayhem in Paris that occurred on that fateful night. It took only […]
India Drives Forward First GMO Crops Under Veil of Secrecy
India Drives Forward First GMO Crops Under Veil of Secrecy A secret application has been made to India’s GEAC (Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee) for a new variety of GMO mustard to be released for cultivation. If accepted, this would be the first GMO variety to be approved in India – and could open the way […]
