The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Nuclear power, bastard child of the Cold War is just fine until it’s not, and when its not the problem can quickly escalate beyond the human ability to deal with it — Fukushima tells that tale very convincingly. And then there is the issue of the nuclear waste which no one knows what to do …
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I find the lie that America tells itself and the world, that we care about our children, particularly heinous and pernicious. By any measure the U.S., as a society — of course you love your children — doesn’t give a damn about the next generation. We should be ashamed of ourselves. That we do not …
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Here is the latest update on the Majority-Minority Trend. Whites are becoming minorities in important counties, and this will have economic and political ramifications that are only beginning to be openly discussed. 78 US Counties Flipped From Majority White Between 2000 And 2013 Map Below the Fold
It is the intention of the Republican Party to see that America’s heritage of national forests be sold for a pittance, or just given away to a small group of corporations. This is so shameful I am amazed that that is not the lead story of the news cycle. But the corporate media doesn’t really …
Like marijuana prohibition the objections to raising the minimum wage are shibboleths and myths. As this report details raising the minimum wage in Seattle to $15 has had no bad effect on the restaurant business as the Rightists maintained must inevitably come to pass. Rather the contrary. Republican economic policies the data shows live in …
This report should outrage you. As you read it remember that in the United Kingdom in 2014 British police officers pulled their weapons and fired three — that’s right, 3 — shots. That’s fewer shots than there were wounds on Michael Brown’s or Walter Scott’s bodies. It should be pointed out that this carnage is …
One of the selling points for industrial chemical agriculture is that nothing can equal its productivity. As this report explains, this is not true, and when the pollution and toxicity costs and effects are factored in there really is no contest. We need to completely reassess our agricultural practices, from the subsidies to the actual …
