‘Rodman-gate’: Can ‘Useful Idiots’ please Stop Shilling for North Korea?
By Robert Kelly.
Studying North Korea inevitably means people ask me pretty outlandish stuff. People have asked, if the North really believes long hair is bad for socialism, if that goiter on Kim Il Sung’s neck made him crazy, [...]
Opposition Political Parties Showing Reservation to the Ethiopian National Transitional Council (ENTC)
By Betre Yacob.
Opposition political parties in Ethiopia are said to have been showing reservation to the Ethiopian National Transitional Council (ENTC), which has been working to overthrow the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front [...]
The Phrase IS the Concept: Richard Dawkins’ Originator Delusion
By Mike Sutton.
A mutual embarrassment of seemingly endless science websites, scholarly books and
journal articles all confidently assert that Richard Dawkins coined the phrase selfish gene and is therefore the originator of the basic concept [...]
HAARP and the Weather Change Agenda
A brief story on HAARP
The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) is an ionospheric research program jointly funded by the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Navy, the University of Alaska, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects [...]
3-D Image Of Buried Mars Flood Channels
By Alton Parrish.
NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has provided images allowing scientists for the first time to create a 3-D reconstruction of ancient water channels below the Martian surface.
The spacecraft took numerous images [...]
Civil war in Syria: The Spillover Threat
By James M. Dorsey.
Water tankers line the unpaved road outside a pre-fab United Nations meeting room in Za’atari, the Syrian refugee camp in a desert just south of the Jordanian-Syrian border that is home to 110,000 escapees from the [...]
Kgalema Motlanthe’s Madiba Magic
By Anneke Scheepers.
Towards the end of 2012, we saw a boiling over of the pot that is the South African political arena. We need little reminder of the lives lost due to strike action, and the spread of these strikes throughout South [...]
Adios Hugo Chavez
By Jaime Ortega.
Medical realities challenged support for the electoral campaign that managed to forget, in some instances, the tragic concerns that lead ultimately to his death. Hugo Chavez even said, “I am completely healthy.” But he [...]
Letter: Hitler a sick homosexual? Evans vs. Machtan and Trevor-Roper
By Ronald Bleier.
Note: I wrote the following brief letter to the London Review of Books in reply to Cambridge Professor Richard J. Evans’s review of a new book on Hitler’s illnesses. I had occasion to think Evans an [...]
Do the Right Thing
By Jeremy Sare, England.
Imagine a Democrat Congressman was caught making a false legal declaration to the police and was forced out of his very marginal seat, facing incarceration. The ensuing election would probably be an easy win for the [...]
Helicoprion: 270 Million Year Old Mystery Of Teeth Like Circular Saw Blade
By Alton Parrish.
Researchers have solved part of the mystery surrounding large spiral fossils of a fish’s teeth, it is revealed in Biology Letters in the last week of February. .
The Idaho State University (ISU) Museum of Natural History [...]
Merchants of Death and Nuclear Weapons
By ProjectCensored.
The Physicians for Social Responsibility released a study estimating one billion people — one-sixth of the human race — could starve over the decade following a single nuclear detonation. [...]
Ongoing media manipulation in Croatia – the case of Karolina Vidović-Krišto
By ProjectCensored.
(This story has been updated on 1/9/2013)
In the old Yugoslavia, the Croatians knew only what the communist government wanted them to know. Today, in 2013, we Croats do not believe that we have a free and impartial [...]
Obscene Government Waste
By Alan Caruba.
The one thing the “sequester” did was to get people asking why government spending could not be reduced. Adding to the drama of the automatic cuts was the sky-is-falling, government-services-will-stop, and comparable lies [...]
Over the cliff – The on-going decline of a superpower
By Oliver Krumme.
The die is cast! The worst case scenario could not be prevented. After the deadline has expired and no consensus has been made between the Democrats and the Republicans, the US is facing a painful austerity programme.
No one [...]
The Franco Paradox
Francisco Franco was born December 1892 and died the 20 November 1975. He was a Spanish military leader and statesman who ruled as the dictator of Spain from 1936 until his death. He came to power during the Spanish Civil War while [...]
278 Employers File Amicus Brief In Scotus Doma Case In Support Of Marriage Equality
By Melanie Nathan.
SEE LIST OF EMPLOYERS BELOW
A team of Bingham McCutchen lawyers today filed on behalf of 278 businesses, cities, and other employers and employer organizations an amicus brief in United States v. Windsor, the United [...]
South Korea does not need nuclear weapons yet
By Robert E. Kelly.
In teaching international security in Korea, I am regularly asked if Korea should have or will have nuclear weapons. North Korea has them obviously, so, not surprisingly, South Koreans are increasingly thinking [...]
The Security of Nuclear Weapons in Pakistan
By Shaun Gregory.
Introduction
Pakistan is once again in crisis following the declaration of a state of emergency on
the night of 3rd November 2007, as political unrest spreads, tensions within the armed
forces and security services grow, [...]
The Essence Of Alexandria
By Khaled Fahmy.
In 1977 Lawrence Durrell revisited Alexandria to participate in a BBC film about the city. Titled Spirit of Place, the film, we are told, shows “palatial villas overgrown with bougainvillaea… abandoned, confiscated [...]