Are companies that are part of the U.S. boom in “fracking” and natural gas extraction using some of the nation’s largest and most respected colleges and universities as front groups to release research favorable to the industry and its push for expansion? That is the conclusion some have reached after high-profile cases of biased reports [...]
WHEN PLANETS COLLIDE: COULD THAT BE MARS AND PLUTONIUM? NASA’s Rover mission to explore the planet Mars is to be fuelled by on-board production by energy-generating cells with a plutonium base. This may be but the beginning of a surge of such explorations in which China and Russia are expected to join in this [...]
RAISING THE JIHADIST FLAG OVER THE SYRIAN OPPOSITION. While the world’s mainstream press continues to demonize the Syrian government and idolize the opposition to same, two New York Times reporters tell a story that seldom enters that “stream.” An increasing factor in the rebel opposition is the rise of involvement of jihadist Muslim groups [...]
Over half of the United States is in the grips of a historic drought that has hit the Midwestern agricultural belt of the nation especially hard, generating fears of food shortages, price spikes, and a dangerous “new normal” in what could be called America’s “climate change summer.” The recent increase in extreme and unusual weather [...]
ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA: WE NEED “MORE THAN A MELEE” TO CURB POLICE VIOLENCE AGAINST FOLKS WHO ARE JUST “HANGING OUT” IN THEIR OWN NEIGHBORHOODS. Gary Leupp describes news accounts and videotape evidence of an incident in Anaheim of an unarmed man who was shot in the back as he fled from police after he was [...]
TRAGEDY TIME IN AMERICA: WHEN THE COUNTRY’S ASSASSIN-IN-CHIEF BECOMES THE COUNTRY’S COMFORTER-IN-CHIEF. President Obama does the “moral multi-tasking” which seems to go with his office of leader of his nation which has become the bully of the world. The Aurora CO shootings follow the endlessly repeated pattern in which horrific situations, both “man made” [...]
NOW YOU SEE IT… : SCIENTISTS DISCOVER “UNPRECEDENTED” MELTING OF THE GREENLAND ICE SHEET. (The Guardian) Holding more than 10 percent of the world’s fresh water and potentially accounting for a 23-foot world sea level rise if melted completely, the fate of the massive ice sheet that normally covers almost all of Greenland is [...]
The nation was stunned late last week when a young man in full body armor and carrying semi-automatic guns opened fire in a crowded Colorado move theater, killing 12 people and wounding 70 in the largest mass shooting in American history. The outpouring of grief was overwhelming, and even President Obama visited the victims’ families [...]
“NOW THAT NO ONE IS USING BPA IN BABY BOTTLES, THE FDA FINALLY GETS AROUND TO BANNING IT.” (EurekAlert) Public health expert David Daussey denounces as a “hollow victory” for public health that the FDA has banned the use of Bisphenol-A in baby bottles and sippy cups, leaving unregulated the use of BPA in [...]
LEADING “PROGRESSIVE” JOURNALISTS HELPING TO “SELL” OVERSEAS U.S. MILITARY AGGRESSION? SOMETHING NEW (NOT) UNDER THE SUN. (Global Research) James Tracy, media professor at Florida Atlantic University, takes note of the way in which “progressive” news agencies like Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now! use the credibility of themselves in progressive circles to neutralize opposition to U.S [...]
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