U.S NAVY PREPARES TO DEPLOY LASER “DEATH RAY” IN PERSIAN GULF After years of speculation that the Pentagon was working on a secret laser weapon project, euphemistically described as a “death ray” by observers, the Navy revealed the finished product this week. It’s a curious device that can shoot lethal laser rays at objects, [...]
Environmental activists and ordinary citizens joined in what was heralded as the largest rally against climate change in American history on Sunday, marching past the White House to send an unmistakable message to President Obama against construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. Stakes are high in the fight to kill the proposed Keystone pipeline that [...]
“A LACK OF EMPATHY, CONSCIENCE, THE INCAPACITY TO FEEL GUILT, AS WELL AS A CALLOUS DISREGARD FOR SAFETY OF OTHERS.” This is part of the DSM-IV manual of illnesses in describing a psychopathic personality. It is, as well, a good working definition of the “personality” of international corporations which, once they were (in 1896) [...]
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 [...]
IMMANUEL WALLERSTEIN LOOKS AT THE GLOBE AND FINDS TURMOIL AND THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT IN THE “MIDDLE RUN” FUTURE. While predictions for a given year are a “fool’s mission” and those for centuries in the future only too easy to make, those for the “middle run” of a decade or so hence are subject to [...]
IS PRESIDENT OBAMA PLAYING ELECTION YEAR POLITICS WITH YOUNG AND AMBITIOUS “ILLEGAL” IMMIGRANTS? In the razor-thin margins that will likely decide this year’s presidential election, both sides are going after every last possible vote in a bid to seize the White House. Due to their booming population and heavy concentrations in so-called “swing states” [...]
SOUTH SUDAN: A NEW NATION CONCEIVED BY A BUNCH OF POLICY WONKS HANGING OUT AT A STARBUCKS COFFEE HOUSE. Abetted by allies in neighboring African countries like Rwanda, a group of “policy wonks” have engaged in a long term effort to create a new country based on a civil war in Sudan that they [...]
“NON-ALIGNED MOVEMENT” IS NOT STOPPED BY A HURRICANE IN TEHRAN, BUT ITS MEETING THIS WEEK MAY RAISE A MIGHTY WIND IN INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMACY. The “Atlanticist” alliance of U.S., Israel and NATO members that fancies itself as the “international community” is shaking with anger against the meeting of 120 world “non-aligned” nations in Tehran. The [...]
Washington gridlock and presidential politics are combining to cripple the nascent sector of wind energy in the United States, leaving the country lagging behind nearly every other industrialized nation and a key source of renewable energy on the brink of deep cuts even as fossil fuels receive billions in taxpayer subsidies. The fight over wind [...]
TERRORISTS PLAYING AROUND THE POWDER KEG IN THE CONFLICT BETWEEN ISRAEL AND SYRIA. (Asia Times) This is the view of Victor Kotsev in noting that the “fog of war” has descended on the Middle East with the pair of bombings of Israeli tourists in Bulgaria and members of the Assad government in Damascus. While [...]
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