THAT’S ONE GIANT STEP FOR WORLD LEUKEMIA SUFFERERS. An Indian court rules that a “copycat” (generic) version of a brand name drug cannot be prohibited by the patent claimed by the brand name company. This decision could have “ripple” effects on the availability of generics for people throughout the world. Prohibition of copycat [...]
MILITARY UBER ALLES: LIBERTARIAN WRITER DECRIES THE MILITARIZATION OF AMERICAN LIFE. Jason Raimondo examines two chunks in the edifice of the structure of military dominance of the culture. (1) the recent decision to allow women into combat roles, which he sees as a triumph of equality over liberty, an “opportunity” for women to share in the [...]
IT’S NOT EASY BEING A PELICAN IN COSTA RICA—NOR A PORPOISE NOR AN ALLIGATOR EITHER. These animals, among others, are given protection in a Marine Park in Puntarenas from the hazards of their life styles (like water dives of pelicans) and of the human animals who sometimes harass them. A gated park provides a [...]
DISASTER IN A TIME OF AUSTERITY: SANDY VICTIMS THROWN TO THE (LOAN) SHARKS. Victims of the superstorm devastation that struck New York and New Jersey are caught in bureaucratic red tape and the disposition of FEMA to administer any “relief” for victims through banks and other lending agencies with loan-shark level interest rates. With [...]
(Principled Progressive returns on Wednesday. Have a safe and happy 2013!) SIBEL EDMONDS’ PREDICTIONS FOR THE NEW YEAR: SAME OLD, SAME OLD, MORE “WAR ON …WHATEVER.” A noted whistleblower posts her year-end assessment as the old year splutters out and and the new year rings in. Piece of cake, she says. When one puts [...]
“SOUND OF FREEDOM” IS THE “SOUND OF JACKASSES” TO SOME RESIDENTS OF WHIDBEY ISLAND, WASHINGTON. Navy Growler jets from nearby airbase may be the sound of freedom for some, but it’s an excessively noisy and even damaging sound according to others. Farmers complain that some of the “kids” who fly the jets think they [...]
ANTI-POVERTY ADVOCATES CAN’T TALK ABOUT WEALTH RE-DISTRIBUTION, LEST WE BE ACCUSED OF INCITING “CLASS WARFARE.” One such advocate, Peter Edelman, who resigned from a job at the Department of Health and Human Services in protest of Bill Clinton’s “welfare reform” law, used to believe this admonition. Now, in a new book, “So Rich, So [...]
WHEN PLANETS COLLIDE: COULD THAT BE MARS AND PLUTONIUM? NASA’s Rover mission to explore the planet Mars is to be fuelled by on-board production by energy-generating cells with a plutonium base. This may be but the beginning of a surge of such explorations in which China and Russia are expected to join in this [...]
TSUNAMI PREPAREDNESS IN THE COUNTRIES AROUND THE INDIAN OCEAN?—NOT SO MUCH. (IPS News) Countries including some island nations along the continents of Australia, Asia and Africa are mostly ill-prepared to protect their people from recurring tsumanis in the Ocean. In some places, governments do not bother to warn people in certain areas of impending disaster, [...]
EUROPE IS DYING, BRICS IS ASCENDING AND WHAT DOES DR. ZBIG ADVOCATE FOR MAINTAINING U.S. FULL SPECTRUM DOMINANCE IN THE WORLD? AN EXPANDED (AND RE-ENERGIZED) EUROPE AS THE KEY U.S. ALLY. (Tom Dispatch) Pepe Escobar assays the international geo-political situation, noting the economic crisis of “old” Europe and the rising economic strength of BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, [...]
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