Ground Your Warplanes, Save the Horn of Africa (Ramzy Baroud)

Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust July 21, 2011 -- “When you are hungry, cold is a killer, and the people here are starving and helpless.” Not many of us can relate to such a statement, but millions o ...

Fukushima Spews, Los Alamos Burns, Vermont Rages and We’ve Almost Lost Nebraska (Harvey Wasserman)

June 29, 2011 (CommonDreams.org) -- Humankind is now threatened by the simultaneous implosion, explosion, incineration, courtroom contempt and drowning of its most lethal industry. We know only two t ...

Why the revolution must start in America (Chris Hedges)

Tyler Hicks / Redux / The New York Times Audio version read by George Atherton – Right-click to download June 16, 2011 (AdBusters) -- The unrest in the Middle East, the convulsions in Ivory Coast, th ...

Climate of Denial: Can Science and the Truth Withstand the Merchants of Poison? (Al Gore)

WCW's Bill Goldberg, a former NFL linebacker, puts the hurt on an opponent. June 22, 2011 (Rolling Stone) -- The first time I remember hearing the question "is it real?" was when I went as a young bo ...

Deus ex Machina: Will economic collapse save us from climate catastrophe? (Dan Allen)

June 17, 2011 (Energy Bulletin) -- “I don’t think the American public has gripped in its gut what could happen.... We’re looking at a scenario where there’s no more agriculture in California.” --Stev ...

Oceans in Distress Foreshadow Mass Extinction (Marlowe Hood)

Pollution and global warming are pushing the world's oceans to the brink of a mass extinction of marine life unseen for tens of millions of years, a consortium of scientists warn. June 20, 2011 -- PA ...

Conspiracy Theory (Paul Craig Roberts)

June 20, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- While we were not watching, conspiracy theory has undergone Orwellian redefinition. A “conspiracy theory” no longer means an event explained by a conspir ...

Confessions of a Nuclear Power Safety Expert (John Perlin)

June 14, 2011 (Miller-McCune) -- When Italy decided in the mid-’70s to add nuclear power to its power portfolio, young mechanical and nuclear engineer Cesare Silvi was among those attracted to the op ...

The Economic Statistic US Elites Keep 'Hush-Hush' (Ron Robins)

June 6, 2011 (alrroya.com) -- It is a simple statistic that continues to warn of huge economic problems ahead for the United States. Some economists call it the "marginal productivity of debt (MPD)." ...

Warning: extreme weather ahead (John Vidal)

Tornados, wildfires, droughts and floods were once seen as freak conditions. But the environmental disasters now striking the world are shocking signs of 'global weirding' A tornado makes its way acr ...

The Next Financial Crisis Will Be Hellish And It’s On Its Way (Addison Wiggin)

June 1, 2011 (Forbes) -- “There is definitely going to be another financial crisis around the corner,” says hedge fund legend Mark Mobius, “because we haven’t solved any of the things that caused the ...