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 [...]
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 [...]
Extreme and unpredictable events are leading many scientists to warn that we may be running out of time to check the most devastating effects of climate change. 2012 may well go down as the year when climate change became a pervasive and in-your-face reality for most Americans, with wildfires, severe weather, record temperatures and an [...]
TINY “SUICIDE DRONES” COULD ALLOW THE UNITED STATES TO LAUNCH “PRECISION” ASSASSINATIONS ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD. 11 years after the attacks of September 11, the arsenal of weaponry that the “war on terror” has justified continues to grow along with the global reach of U.S military and intelligence operations. Drone strikes have become the [...]
“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 [...]
SPANISH BAILOUT HAS COUNTRY PREPARED FOR “THUMBSCREW OF AUSTERITY” (World Socialist) A few observers declared that the European fiscal crisis took a sizable step towards a positive resolution with the announcement this week that banks and officials with the European Union and International Monetary Fund would bail out Spain with a 100 billion euro loan [...]
Some of the most dire warnings yet about the future of our planet and the consequences of ignoring the forces and causes of climate change are being delivered by some of the most knowledgeable scientists in their fields. Predictions of irreversible and unprecedented ramifications driven by climate change and other man-made impacts on the natural [...]
` WHAT A SECRET MEETING OF GLOBAL CORPORATE ELITES TELLS US ABOUT THE 2012 ELECTION AND WAR IN SYRIA (The Guardian) ` Virtually unnoticed by the mainstream media and most ordinary Americans, a secret meeting held last week just outside of Washington DC could very well have decided on a great many important things. The [...]
While the undeniable ramifications of a warming planet are hard to ignore in the first months of what many say will be the hottest year in recorded history, some leading scientists and climate experts argue that important policy decisions that would perpetuate American reliance on fossil fuels could truly mean “game over” for climate change. [...]
ETCHING THE TOMBSTONE OF EUROPEAN-STYLE AUSTERITY: “THE STRATEGY OF AUSTERITY HAS…BEEN COUNTERPRODUCTIVE…” (The Globe & Mail) ` A new report from the International Labor Organization lays out in raw statistics the destruction and “devastating consequences” of the austerity programs imposed on most of Europe and, to a somewhat lesser extent, the United States. The [...]
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