WANT TO GET MORE BIKES ON THE ROAD IN BRITAIN? How about making it safer and more convenient for people to ride them? Only 2% of people in UK ride bicycles to work, compared with about a quarter of them in continental countries. A group of MPs are urging their colleagues, in the name of [...]
HANDCUFFING KIDS FOR NO REASON. This is the allegation of two whistle-blowing police officers against the practices of the New York Police Department in a class action suit against the city charging racial profiling. They claim that their supervisors maintained quotas of the number of arrests and summonses they were expected to execute in [...]
WHERE ARE SEATTLE KIDS GOING TO FIND A 38-FOOT HIGH DIVING PLATFORM WHEN THE “RAMPS TO NOWHERE” ARE TORN DOWN? Ramps connected to the Route 520 highway have been abandoned for 40 or more years when plans to make various connections to the road were dropped after citizen protests. One of these will [...]
LASSO THAT ICEBERG, COWBOY! Exxon Mobil prepares massive oil drilling off the coast of Newfoundland, ironically near the point at which the Titanic was sunk by an iceberg. To ally any fears that another iceberg could produce an even larger environmental disaster, the company plans to construct concrete towers taller than the Eiffel Tower [...]
WHAT DO SAUDI ARABIA, BAHRAIN AND QATAR HAVE IN COMMON? First, they are “monarchical regimes” within which are found some of the most barbaric labor practices in the world, often featuring immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa. Second, they are the closest of allies of the United States in its determined policy in fomenting insurrection in a “humanitarian [...]
GARDENER ON THE ROOF: SINGAPORE’S “SKY GREEN” AGRI-BUSINESS SHOWS THE WAY TO FOOD SELF-SUBSISTENCE FOR A CROWDED CITY. Being that Singapore is a country of essentially one city of 5 million people, it has depended heavily on food imports from neighboring countries. Sky Green is project hoping to eliminate that situation, with a technology [...]
DOES ISRAEL HAVE A RIGHT TO EXIST? Let’s put that another way, says Patrick Higgins; does “murderous settler-colonialism” have a right to exist? The current Israeli raids on Gaza provoke this question. Higgins compares the Jewish settler movement in the middle east to the process of white settlers “winning the west” from native Americans. [...]
IRANIAN LEADERS DON’T TRUST OBAMA IN SECRET TALKS; WILL THEY TRUST VALERIE JARRETT? Leaked White House information notes that Jarrett, the Iranian-born advisor to Obama, is heading up the preliminary talks with Iran leading to the possibility of “after-the-elections” negotiations on Iran’s nuclear development program, despite her lack of any diplomatic experience. John Glaser [...]
AMERICAN PRIORITIES: MORE MONEY FOR PRISONS, LESS FOR HIGHER EDUCATION. An alarming trend that has taken hold in the United States is a startling divergence in the amount of public money earmarked for the sustenance of the nation”s system of higher education versus that spent on incarceration. America is now a place where [...]
“WE’RE LOSING THE COUNTRY. WHAT IS HAPPENING NOW IS (GREECE’S) LARGEST INVASION EVER.” This utterance by a member of a fascist party in Greece underscores the siege mentality behind the government’s recent rampage of the country seeking to expel “foreign-looking” people, using tactics of denial of due process for any who would seek refugee [...]
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