Our January issue featured the story “Niger Delta: Behind the Mask” by Ike Okonta, which explored the concept of petro-violence, pioneered by Michael J. Watts of UC Berkely, in the context of contemporary Nigeria— where oil exploitation has only brought… Read moreUS oil profligance and third world petro-violence: our readers write
It now stands at five minutes to midnight. Before this change, it stood at seven to midnight, having moved forward two minutes in February 2002. That was the same position it stood at when the clock was unveiled in 1947…. Read more“Doomsday Clock” two minutes closer to midnight
John Mohawk, a leading scholar and spokesman for the Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy (Haudenosaunee), died at his home in Buffalo, NY, on Dec. 12. Mohawk was an international voice for the soveriegn and territorial rights of the Iroquois Confederacy, a… Read moreJohn Mohawk, Iroquois leader and scholar, dead at 61
From BBC, Oct. 17 (our commentary to follow): Humanity may split into two sub-species in 100,000 years’ time as predicted by HG Wells, an expert has said. Evolutionary theorist Oliver Curry of the London School of Economics expects a genetic… Read moreEvolutionary theorist: humanity may “split in two”
From the AP, Nov. 15: Environmentalists sued the Bush administration Tuesday for failing to produce a report on global warming’s impact on the country’s environment, economy and public health. The lawsuit seeks to compel the U.S. Climate Change Science Program… Read moreEnviros sue Bush for supressing climate data
From the UK Independent, Oct. 22, via Common Dreams: Nothing else quite like it has happened at any time in the past 10,000 years. In just over a month an entire Antarctic ice shelf, bigger than a small country, disintegrated… Read moreGlobal warming link to Antarctic ice melt: study
This is one solution that the perennially annoying Thomas Friedman didn’t advocate in his recent rant against the “petro-authoritiarians” who have got the USA by the balls. But we certainly do. From the web page of California’s Buddhist Deer Park… Read moreOctober 7: Global No Car Day
The New York Times Sept. 30 takes note of widespread conspiracy theories that the White House is manipualting oil prices: A gallon of regular gas now averages $2.33, after rising above $3 in August. But given that even the current… Read moreConspiracy theories in dropping oil prices
Perhaps some of you noticed Bill Clinton’s $15,000-a-head confab at a Midtown Manhattan Sheraton hotel last week to raise funds and awareness to tackle global poverty and climate change. Hillary, Colin Powell and even Laura Bush were all on hand…. Read moreGore stumps with “World War 4” architect Woolsey
Yeah, but they’ll probably have their own website. From BBC, Sept. 24, emphasis added: Internet’s future in 2020 debated The internet will be a thriving, low-cost network of billions of devices by 2020, says a major survey of leading technology… Read moreArmed Luddite resistance to Internet foreseen
Under the happy headline “Space Probe Slams Into Moon,” the shameless techno-boosters at Space.com note Sept. 4: A European lunar orbiter was purposely slammed into the Moon today. The high-tech spacecraft—Small Missions for Advanced Research and Technology—belongs to the European… Read moreEuro-imperialist aggression against the Moon
From Scripps Howard, Aug. 12: The vast ice cap that covers Greenland nearly three miles thick is melting faster than ever before on record, and the pace is speeding year by year, according to global climate watchers gathering data from… Read moreSatellite data: Greenland ice cap melting fast
