WATCH YOUR MOUTH, JOHN KERRY. The new U.S. Secretary of State commits the unpardonable sin of comparing the suffering visited on innocent people at the Boston Marathon with the 2010 Israeli raid and killing of numerous passengers on a “flotilla” of vessels bound with humanitarian aid to breach the Israeli blockage of Gaza. Israeli [...]
JIM CROW GOES TO PALESTINE. Israel is practicing against its Palestinian minority the same repressive apartheid-maintaining measures that kept blacks in “their places” (literally) in the U.S. in the years leading up to the civil rights movement. The walls that attempt to separate Jews and Muslims are the equivalent to the “red lining” in [...]
Already a defining challenge for millions of Americans after several years of unusual and deadly weather events, climate change has taken on new prominence as a political issue thanks to President Obama’s promise in his second inaugural address that he will seek to “respond” to the “threat” posed by a warming planet. But environmentalists argue [...]
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 [...]
New records associated with global climate change are falling at a dizzying rate, and some of the statistics are “astonishing” in their magnitude. It all adds up to more signs than ever before that irreversible and potentially catastrophic changes associated with global warming will push the world’s population to the brink . The year 2012 [...]
Inaction and failure to understand basic scientific realities by the two candidates for president and other political leaders is putting Americans at risk from more numerous and intense severe weather events caused by climate change. Scientists and activists are making a public issue out of the “climate silence” of President Obama and Mitt Romney on [...]
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 [...]
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