We hear lots about California and it’s three-year-running drought that has left the State in severe water stress. Wells are running dry, emergency bottled water has to be brought in…
The Swiss banking giant, UBS, says renewable energy is the hands down winner and conventional power generation is finished. In a briefing paper sent to clients and investors this week,…
Photographer Patrick Hall reveals human emotion at 300,000 volts
They can move you along at speeds upwards of 20-miles an hour for distances up to 30-miles at a stretch. They’re computer controlled and host features too numerous to list.…
The oft-maligned Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change is, admittedly, something of a strange bird. It doesn’t conduct climate change research. It merely collects the research undertaken by universities, government agencies…
NATO leaders gather in Wales next week for what could be the alliance’s most important summit in years. Instead of focusing on housekeeping issues to tidy up the not very…
Since 1918 with the defeat of the Kaiser’s Germany triggered the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, the West has established a reputation for screwing up in the Middle East. It…
A bulletin from The New York Times claims that Russian military units including infantry, tanks and artillery, have poured over the border into eastern Ukraine, “attacking Ukrainian forces and causing…
It’s called the “Last Stop” and, for 39-year old Arizonan, Charles Vacca, it lived up to its name. For Charles Vacca, the Last Stop was a shooting range where he…
When it comes to politics and lying the two seem to go hand in glove. We’ve always considered politicians a bit shady, willing to bend the truth to suit their…
Another report from the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change, the IPCC. The Associated Press has managed to thumb through the latest report, a synthesis report based on the previous three.…
This is Dahiyeh, Lebanon, before and after Israel devastated it and its civilian population. The reduction of this Beiruit suburb marked the introduction of an Israeli strategy to rain destruction…
When it comes to petro-statehood, Canada is a lot closer to Nigeria than to Norway and more’s the pity. The Tyee’s Andrew Nikiforuk has done a terrific job chronicling how…
Foggy Rasmussen Why do I get the feeling that there are some in the West who would welcome a conflict with Russia? I watched a documentary last night on the…
Here’s another way of looking at climate science. Photographer Nick Bowers has produced a black and white photo essay entitled, “Scared Scientists,” that you can preview at HuffPo. Bowers accompanies…
Central America continues to reel under severe, multi-year drought. Guatemala has declared a state of emergency in 16 of the country’s 22-provinces. Experts believe the impact on agriculture could soon…
British intelligence has identified the man believed to have beheaded James Foley. He’s 23-year old Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary, who is known to Islamic State militants as Jihadi John. It turns…
In his 2008 book “Climate Wars“, Gwynne Dyer foretold the militarization of the American-Mexican border. The American military, Dyer wrote, had plans to seal the border against a wave of…
Henry Giroux argues that we must perceive democracy as a culture and shake off the cloak of neoliberalism by which it has been subverted. Excerpts from his essay, “Beyond the…
They’re already facing some serious challenges coming their way before all that long, let’s teach them the difference between absurdity and reality, the gift of critical thinking. That’s been heavily…
