Archived material from historical editions of The Generator
The people of Nunavik are not just concerned about climate change but climate disruption. “It isn’t just that it is warmer,” Mr Aubin said. “It’s the unpredictable nature of the weather now. We can go out hunting or fishing inland in March and find it’s too warm to build an igloo, so we put up Continue Reading →
Republicans prevented more than 350,000 voters in Ohio from casting ballots or having their votes counted — enough to have put John Kerry in the White House, writes ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR in this month’s Rolling Stone. The emergence of articles like this in mainstream US Media, mean that the grip of the whitehouse over Continue Reading →
OPEC, which controls about half of world oil exports, was due to meet in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, on 31 May, against the backdrop of world prices reaching new record levels above $US70 per barrel, reported The Australian Financial Review, (31/5/2006, p.15). OPEC to keep 28m barrel/day llimit: Asked on Monday local time if OPEC Continue Reading →
A video of a US Apache helicopter taking out a group of Iraqis they believed to be dissidents has led to widespread debate on whether in fact it is a record of the killing of innocent farmers. UK-based IndyMedia has posted both long and short versions of the video together with widely dissenting analysis of Continue Reading →
The widespread availability of digital cameras that can send images around the globe in an instant makes it possible to see what is going on in almost any corner of the globe. Despite this, the news that most of us receive in our nightly television bulletins are more sanitised and less dramatic than they were Continue Reading →
An analysis of recent stories in the Israeli press reveals just how naive the neo-conservatives are, according to anti-war journalist Justin Raimondo. Raimondo analyses the sources of a story that Iran is threatening terrorism at the World Cup to reveal that the story has been placed by Mossad to fan anti-Iranian flames in Europe at a time when the Europeans are resisting US attempts to get support for a strike on Iran.
He provides evidence that this incident is consistent with a long-term plan to fan the flames of US engagement in an unwinnable war for the sake of strengthening Israeli dominance in the middle-east, especially southern Lebanon.