To subscribe or unsubscribe email John What the US government is doing in Syria is tantamount to a war of aggression, which, according to the Nuremberg Tribunal, is the worst possible crime a State can commit against another State Father Miguel D’Escoto People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and Continue Reading →
Speculation is perfectly all right, but if you stay there you’ve only founded a superstition. If you test it, you’ve started a science Hal Clement Twenty Photos: My Seven Months Living at Standing Rock These images show some of the defining moments of the past seven months — some that made it to mainstream Continue Reading →
The final week of 2016 is an apt time to reflect on the role of religion. Fundamentalists fan the flames of religious hate from Aleppo to Ipswich. Borders snap shut, refugees languish in ghettos and First Nations people from West Papua and Western Australia to just West of the Mississippi at Standing Rock are tortured Continue Reading →
You are in the Cage unscripted. Australia is on holiday. The Summer that Will Not End in our lifetimes has begun. It is hot. It is very hot. And the Endless Summer has just begun. As we huddle in the air conditioning, or wallow in the kid’s wading pool draping wet towels over ourselves to Continue Reading →
News that the City government of LA is totally powered by renewables follows rapidly declining costs of solar electricity and advances in community owned generation models. A conference held earlier this month identified major opportunities for community based power generators using renewable energy. Reporting on the conference in South Wind, energy writer Peter Boyer wrote Continue Reading →
Recent ABC reports that India is stepping away from coal fail to understand the nuanced report by the Central Electricity Agency (CEA) that predicts falling demand for new coal power. Their report indicates that the government has overestimated general economic growth and individual demand for electricity. Despite this, the government intends to proceed with its Continue Reading →