David Swanson: Two Kind’s of Countries – Israel’s Dangerous Path

Two Kinds of Countries: Israel’s Dangerous Path There are two kinds of countries or societies or places to live. In the first kind, decent, fair, kind, and respectful treatment of every person takes precedent over anyone’s preferences for how a culture changes or how much effort is expended trying to slow the change of a …

Jean Lievens: NSA + TSA = Questionable Due Process – a German Victim of Rule by Secrecy, or a Bulgarian Clandestine Asset Properly Barred?

Ilija Trojanow, German Writer, Banned From US For Criticizing NSA According to Der Spiegel, German-Bulgarian writer and activist Ilija Trojanow was barred from entering the United States on Monday. Trojanow was to speak at a literary conference. HuffPost Live’s Ahmed Shihab-Eldin took a closer look at the story, which has yet to be covered by …

Paul Craig Roberts: Police Are More Dangerous To The Public Than Are Criminals?

Police Are More Dangerous To The Public Than Are Criminals The goon thug psychopaths no longer only brutalize minorities–it is open season on all of us –the latest victim is a petite young white mother of two small children Paul Craig Roberts The worse threat every American faces comes from his/her own government. Full article …

Ioannis Koskinas: Taliban talks: A dangerous distraction for Afghanistan

使用谷歌翻译在下一列的顶部。 गूगल अगले स्तंभ के शीर्ष पर अनुवाद का प्रयोग करें. Google sonraki sütunun üstünde Çevir kullanın. Используйте Google Translate на вершине соседней колонке. گوگل اگلے کالم میں سب سے اوپر ترجمہ کا استعمال کریں. Taliban talks: A dangerous distraction for Afghanistan Foreign Policy, 10 July 2013 Good intentions and clear political willingness to commit …

David Swanson: Deep Dissection of Trans-Pacific Partnership — The Most Evil Reprehensible Impeachable Act To Come Out of Washington in Recent Memory

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 …

Chuck Spinney: Boeing Implosion a Case Study in Integrity Lost — Specific Decisions Leading to Plastic Flammable Planes with Explosive Batteries

Two and one-half years ago, on 11 February 2011, Pierre Sprey and I posted a blog entry on the Blaster, Why is Boing Imploding?.  This post is still the fourth most popular since I began the website in 2008.  It describes how the corrosive practices of the Military – Industrial – Congressional Complex (MICC) spill …

Information overload? • Wearable sports technology raises safety concerns

Information overload? • Wearable sports technology raises safety concerns Howard Rheingold‘s insight: If you think the desktop Web and the smartphone were occasions for info-overload, get ready for wearable computing, which isn’t waiting for the 2014 release of Google Glass. On ski slopes and on the roads, we’re about to embark on a societal experiment …