George Monbiot guardian.co.uk, Monday 1 March 2010 20.00 GMT https://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/mar/01/solar-panel-feed-in-tariff Plans for the grid feed-in tariff suggest we live in southern California. And at £8.6bn, this is a pricey conceit with little benefit Those who hate environmentalism have spent years looking for the definitive example of a great green rip-off. […]
Geopolitics
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Paul Craig Roberts describes how disunity and bickering among Muslims have made it possible for Israel to dispossess the Palestinians, for the US to invade Iraq and for the US to rule much of the region and beyond through puppets. Muslims are numerous but powerless. Divisions among Muslims, especially between […]
Iran’s foreign minister says former US President George W. Bush’s so-called war on terror has actually served as a guise for training terrorists. “Does fighting terrorism mean supporting professional killers?” Manouchehr Mottaki asked at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, according to Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast who accompanied […]
Christopher King argues that “a situation exists in which it may be in the interests of the United States to seek a ‘cold war’ situation with Russia and China as a pretext for defaulting on its external debt, attacking Iran, taking direct control of all Middle Eastern oilfields and effective […]
“The morons in Washington are pushing the envelope of nuclear war. The insane drive for American hegemony threatens life on earth. The American people, by accepting the lies and deceptions of “their” government, are facilitating this outcome.” Read the rest here
During the Bubble when it seemed like everyone was going to get rich, people tend to let a lot of things slide. During a serious economic downturn, like the one we’re at the beginning of, people tend to wake up in large numbers. For example, it’s unlikely this video would […]
It’s a strange world we live in where Russia produces more sensible and realistic economic analysis than the US or the UK. China? Filled with brilliant, hard working people, to be sure, but the government there has a long record of masterful baloney manufacturing. Is China the non-stop financial juggernaut […]
American security guards charged with killing two civilians in Afghanistan had criminal records, a Senate committee has heard. They were guilty of assault, battery and drug-taking in the past. The men were in Afghanistan with a subsidiary of the private security firm Blackwater, previously accused of murdering civilians in Iraq.