This is my summation of President Joe Biden’s Middle East policies for Tomdispatch.com. Check out Tom Engelhardt’s searing introduction. And note his recommendation for my […]
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The Incredible Shrinking Cost of Solar Energy Drives Mega-Projects around the World
Rob Wile uses a graph to point out the obvious, the dramatic fall in the cost of solar power generation. In many countries– Italy, Spain, […]
Fracking ourselves to Death: Hydrocarbons are bad for Children and other Living Things (Cantarow)
Ellen Cantarow writes at Tomdispatch.com: More than 70 years ago, a chemical attack was launched against Washington State and Nevada. It poisoned people, animals, everything […]
Why Obama doesn’t want to intervene in Syria
After President Obama’s remarks about chemical weapons use in Syria, many newspaper articles appeared suggesting that he was rethinking his opposition to US involvement there. […]
Israeli Pundits Slam Kerry as Naive, Messianic for Arab League Concession
Secretary of State John Kerry has wrung a concession from the Arab League, which now says that some minor changes in the 1967 border between […]
After unsafe Factory kills 400 in Bangladesh, on May Day workers Demand Rights (Democracy Now!)
As deaths in the Bangladesh textile factory fire mount to over 400, on May Day workers demand they be afforded as many legal protections as […]
UNICEF: Facebook likes don’t save lives, Contributions do
UNICEF reminds us that Facebook ‘likes’ don’t save children’s lives– cash contributions do. Plus, it helps if the US Congress steps up. The Israel lobbies […]
Saudi Arabian hunter stalks desert Gazelle with pet Cheetah
Saudi Arabian man keeps cheetah as pet to help with hunting gazelle in the desert.
Top Ten Problems in South Carolina Lindsey Graham should worry more about than Benghazi
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) slammed President Obama for a deterioration in US security because, he said, of four Americans having been killed in Benghazi last […]
Cargo Plane Crash at Bagram (Video)
Warning: some may find this footage disturbing. A cargo plane crashed Monday at Bagram air base in Afghanistan, killing all 7 passengers aboard (Americans). . […]