“DOES THAT MEAN THAT IN BIOLOGY YOU CAN TEACH BIOLOGY THAT TOTALLY DISREGARDS DARWIN’S THEORY OF EVOLUTION?” The global cabal of climate change deniers can only be described as resourceful in seeking to publicize their message discrediting the science of climate change and global warming. Backed by organizations funded with money from oil and energy [...]
For all of the super-PAC money, the strategists, the pollsters, the “bundlers” and the armies of staffers and supporters that are being organized to influence this November’s presidential election, President Barack Obama’s reelection campaign and a Republican Party desperate to defeat him are both blindly committing serious missteps that could end up costing them the [...]
THOSE AFGHAN PROTESTS: PRESS COVERAGE TO THE CONTRARY, IT ISN’T JUST ABOUT THE “INADVERTENT” BURNING OF SOME KORANS. (Salon) News coverage tends to marginalize as religious fanaticism the grievances of Afghans against the United States, covering the fact that the U.S. is perceived as an invader of their country and that it is their duty [...]
AMIDST THE OSCAR NARCISSISM OF CELEBRITIES, A GLIMMER OF BRILLIANCE IN THE BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM WINNER. (Asia Times) Middle Eastern writer Pepe Escobar so views the choice of Ashgar Farhady’s “A Separation” for this award. In Escobar’s view, this was actually the best film in ANY language, the exactly needed antidote to the Islamophobia [...]
Lawmakers in Virginia have backed off two highly controversial bills that would have been an unprecedented duel assault on the rights and privacy of women in the commonwealth. The rapid disintegration of support for the measures could the clearest evidence yet that a sustainable backlash is developing in what can only be described as a nationwide war [...]
IS THERE A CRISIS IN GLOBAL CAPITALISM? DEPENDS ON WHERE YOU LOOK AND AT WHOM YOU ARE LOOKING. (Global Research) Sociologist James Petras does a deconstruction job on the thesis that “the world” is in economic crisis. Actually, the current recession is confined mostly to the European and North American continents, as economies in Asia [...]
SHELL OIL COMPANY: YOU’RE POLLUTING THE ALASKAN ENVIRONMENT—AND BESIDES THAT, YOU ARE ON INDIAN WATER! (Indian Country Today) A native land claims group, REDOIL (Resisting Environmental Destruction on Indigenous Lands) joins 6 environmental groups in protesting EPA’s granting permits to Shell to drill “exploratory” oil wells in the Chukchi Sea off Alaska’s northwest coast. ` [...]
OBAMA’S NEW TAX PLAN WOULD SLASH CORPORATE RATES BY UP TO 10 PERCENT. (New York Times) Seeking to beat potential Republican vials to the fore of the “tax debate,” President Obama on Wednesday announced sweeping proposals for overhauling the nation’s corporate tax code. Currently sitting at a listed rate of 35 percent, the White House [...]
At a pace much faster than anyone could have projected, the landscape of campaign finance in American politics has undergone a dramatic transformation to a point where deregulated outside groups hold a distinct advantage over individual campaign war chests. The monumental presidential contest of 2012 appears to be the dawn of the super-PAC age in [...]
PAYNES PRAIRIE IS NOT VERY COMPANIONABLE TO BUFFALO ROAMING THEREON. (Gainesville Sun) Local “cowboys” begin a long talked-about process of thinning the herd of about 70 bison who roam the state preserve of Paynes Prairie just south of Gainesville, Florida (coincidentally the locale of a fog-induced disastrous traffic pile-up 3 weeks ago—an event which no [...]
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