A great deal of ambiguity, conflict and promise surrounds humanity’s use of energy. Wars are fought over access to sources of energy, freedoms are repressed in order to maintain control over access to energy, and the planet is poisoned while we refuse to renegotiate our addiction to particular forms of […]
Geopolitics
Report from Bil’in : ’soldiers showed no discrimination with their firing, shooting directly at the faces of the protestors’ by Adam Horowitz on April 23, 2010 Today’s demonstration marked the culminating event in the Fifth Bil’in International Conference for Palestinian Popular Resistance, which began on Wednesday, April 21 with a […]
[ ‘The Lion Hunt’ – 1616 ] On this day in history, 394 years ago – on April 23rd, 1616 to be exact – the two greatest European writers of all time shuffled off this mortal coil. Both were famous for sidestepping or deflating the sacred narratives and windy generalities […]
[ you may just want to pop the jug on and then settle in for this one … ] Poverty Initiative at Union Theological Seminary brought Chris Hedges to their Poverty Scholars Strategic Dialogues on Media and Religion and he delivered a monumental address urging the poor deal effectively with […]
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You probably heard about the crash of the airplane that had the entire hierarchy of the Polish government onboard plus the country’s top military command. Very strange for so many important people to be on one plane. Here’s video from the crash site. The story just gets stranger and stranger. […]
[ … & just what’s wrong with allowing -ANYONE- to be able to hold you at gunpoint from orbit – anytime they bloody well feel like it ]
The United States of America, in global strategic terms, is tumbling down a series of misadventures, declining in a “step of sighs” through frustrating economic and military endeavours as it discovers that its superpower structures and massive capital wealth are insufficient to cope with a transformed world. This transformed world […]