The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Published on Aug 3, 2013 NASA has put out a video showing the increase in global warming if the CO2 in the atmosphere continues to increase at its current rate. And let’s just say you won’t be needing that jacket in the year 2100. If you feel this issue is important, pass this video on. …
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Here is what climate change and the melting of the Arctic looks like from Malaysia. It is a very sensible assessment, of a depth one rarely sees in the Western media. Polar Politics and the Melting Arctic JOSEPH CHINYONG LIOW, professor of comparative and international politics – The Malay Mail (Malaysia) Singapore’s recent accession to …
What Slavery Cost As I head off to a rally for Trayvon Martin, I notice a column by Bob Koehler in which he says the unpaid work of slaves in the United States is now estimated at $1.4 trillion. Oddly, that’s not terribly far from the $1.2 trillion or so, possibly more now, that …
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TPP: The Terrible Plutocratic Plan By David Swanson Remarks July 21, 2013 at an Occupy Harrisonburg (Va.) Event. Make your voice heard here. Thanks to Michael Feikema and Doug Hendren for inviting me. Like most of you I do not spend my life studying trade agreements, but the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is disturbing enough to …
Bottom line: for one third of what we spend on war, we can eradicate all ten high level threats to humanity. Introduction What We Have and What We Want Synergies of the Whole 1. Eliminate Starvation and Malnourishment 2. Provide Health Care & AIDS Control 3. Provide Shelter 4. Provide Clean Safe Water 5. Eliminate …
Experts unearth concerns over ‘peak soil’ In the past 40 years, 30 percent of the planet’s arable land has become unproductive due to erosion, scientists say. Reykjavik, Iceland – Soil is becoming endangered, and this reality needs to be part of our collective awareness in order to feed nine billion people by 2050, say experts meeting …
Terracide and the Terrarists Destroying the Planet for Record Profits By Tom Engelhardt We have a word for the conscious slaughter of a racial or ethnic group: genocide. And one for the conscious destruction of aspects of the environment: ecocide. But we don’t have a word for the conscious act of destroying the planet we live …
