THERE’S A SMALL CHANCE THAT FURTHER AUDIT OF THE VENEZUELAN ELECTION WILL OVERTURN THE RESULS OF THAT ELECTION. How small? One in 25,000 trillion, according to a statistical analysis of election boxes already audited, the likelihood that audits of the remainder could reverse the “populist” outcome that continues the policies of Hugo Chavez. So [...]
CLIMATE CRUSADERS “UNDER ATTACK.“ Bill Mckibben writes in Grist of the recent travails facing two of the globe’s most ardent and respected leaders of the movement to take aggressive action against climate change. NASA scientist James Hansen, arrested last month for his dogged opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline, a project he says will [...]
THE “BIGGEST CLIMATE FIGHT” OF THE YEAR MAY ALREADY BE HERE, AND IT COULD HAVE BIG CONSEQUENCES FOR THE HEALTH OF OUR PLANET. A tiny Oregon town is at the center of a brewing struggle over big profits for the coal industry and whether simply “offshoring” the dirtiest of fossil fuels will negate any [...]
RUBE GOLDBERG, WHERE ARE YOU WHEN WE NEED YOU? COLLECTING A JUICY PRIZE FROM THE WHITE HOUSE OFFICE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY FOR MY LATEST INVENTION. (USA Today) The OSTP releases a new report touting the “successes” it has achieved for giving prizes to inventors under the provisions of an “America COMPETES” law passed last year by [...]
WOULD YOU RATHER—SLASH PUBLIC SPENDING OR RAISE TAXES? (Another World is Possible) As the Canadian government imposes severe new austerity measures to cut social services, Canadians are questioned by local newspaper whether they would prefer to balance the budget by raising taxes. Writer Ellen Brown rejects this formula, saying there is a “third way” seldom [...]
TOTAL RECALL: OVER ONE MILLION WISCONSIN VOTERS SIGN A PETITION TO REMOVE GOV. SCOTT WALKER FROM OFFICE VIA RECALL ELECTION. (Wisconsin State Journal) The long struggle against Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker reached a stunning crescendo on Tuesday as organizers of the effort to recall Walker turned in more than one million signatures for the [...]
THE FUTURE OF WARFARE IS “LETHAL AUTONOMY”: ROBOTIC WEAPONS THAT NOT ONLY KILL, BUT MAKE THE DECISION TO KILL. (Washington Post) The U.S. military has been in the business of unmanned weaponry for years, with deadly pilot-less aerial drones flying over Afghanistan and Pakistan and controlled by soldiers thousands of miles away. But the next [...]
U.S. CONGRESS: YOU JUST PASSED A DEFICIT REDUCTION BUDGET THAT WILL FURTHER WRECK THE U.S. ECONOMY. WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO NOW? WE’RE GOING TO TEL AVIV! (Foreign Policy) Stephen Walt, who helped “write the book” on the Israel lobby influence on U.S., finds the thesis of that book writ large in the behavior [...]
Florida voters have it rough. After overwhelmingly approving a constitutional amendment last November that would transform the process of state and congressional redistricting to make it more fair, Floridians are facing a stiff fight from state lawmakers not yet ready to give up their authority to gerrymander districts to suit their political needs. As Scott [...]
FIVE YEARS OF HELL IN GAZA. (Irish Times) The statistics are simply catastrophic. 45 percent unemployment. 300,000 Gazans living on less than $1 a day. Fishing bans leading to hunger and diminished exports. These numbers are the toll of Israel’s unilateral blockage of Gaza, enforced for five years since Palestinians there elected a Hamas-led government. [...]
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