WANT TO GET MORE BIKES ON THE ROAD IN BRITAIN? How about making it safer and more convenient for people to ride them? Only 2% of people in UK ride bicycles to work, compared with about a quarter of them in continental countries. A group of MPs are urging their colleagues, in the name of [...]
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 [...]
THE AFRICAN UNION HAS BECOME AN “ANNEX” OF THE PENTAGON. As Glen Ford noted last June, the expansion of U.S. forces in Africa (AFRICOM) is operating as an “infiltration” exercise of American forces being placed as “guests” of various African nations comprising the African Union. These “guests” are in a peculiar positions for guests: [...]
AS U.S. DE-ESCALATES SOME MILITARY OPERATIONS, DEMAND FOR PREDATOR DRONES SLACKENS; BUT DRONE INDUSTRY NEED NOT DESPAIR: THESE STATE OF THE ART MILITARY GOODIES ARE INCREASINGLY BEING PEDDLED AROUND THE WORLD. (The International News) Up to now, the U.S. has confined its sharing of drones and drone technology and products largely to a few favored allies. “This [...]
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