500 years is long enough! Human Depravity in the Congo
For more than 500 years, the Congo has been brutalized by the extraordinary violence inflicted by those who have treated the country as a resource – for slaves, rubber, timber, wildlife and minerals – to be exploited.
EPA, national clean energy progression over nearly 50 years
Each renewable investment and green energy company initiative represents a milestone in the journey to a cleaner environment.
The Anti-Empire Report #145
“Can it be imagined that an American president would openly implore the nation’s young people to fight a foreign war to defend ‘capitalism’?”
Patriotism has little stature when the need for international collaboration has never been so...
Rather than encouraging the collective, global scientific approach the pandemic desperately needs, Trump deliberately isolates the United States from such a required international response.
From Realpolitik to “Digitalpolitik”
In a very enlightening report by Foreign Policy magazine “the war torn the web”* describes how the war for the web will...
Militant MadAmerika
“In her great piece, Sara Gray makes the connection between kids playing at 'first person shooter games' and being in live combat. She explains how these kinds of games desensitize heavy players to images of violence- thus, isn't it easy to imagine shooting someone in real life when you spend all day simulating shooting someone?”
The War Racket Continues.. 84 years later!
On this Memorial Day weekend, all Amerikans should look back to the great essay written in 1935 by Marine General Smedley Butler....
Pimps, whores and Johns
Walt Kelley’s Pogo comic strip had the greatest line: “We have met the enemy and he be us!”
Let them suck Sikorskys, let them eat pork
The Pentagon consumes more fossil fuel than any other entity on Earth.
Deconstructing Democracy
This is not Democracy. This is the destruction of Democracy.