The Death of liberty: DON’T TAKE SIDES, TAKE ACTION

“He who controls the past, controls the future,” wrote a young Georgian radical called Joseph Jughashvilli in 1930.

He is better known to history as Stalin – the man of Steel; his point was that terrorism, propaganda, fear of retribution and untrammelled media access [he was a politically ideological newspaper editor by trade] could re-write […]

The Death of liberty: DON’T TAKE SIDES, TAKE ACTION

The false red flag: lies and repression

by Paul Cudenec An authentic mood of revolt had been swelling up in Russia for some time before 1917, with a previous attempted revolution in 1905-06 violently repressed by the tsarist regime. A great inspiration behind this mood was the back-to-the-land Christian anarchism of the revered Russian novelist and thinker Leo Tolstoy, [11] author of […]

The false red flag: lies and repression

TODAY. Sellafield scandals – a case study in why the nuclear industry must be shut down.

If you had any illusions about the nuclear industry being “clean” and “safe” and “honest”, the latest bit of news in the tawdry saga of UK’s Sellafield nuclear waste dump might cause you to stop and think. It doesn’t seem that much – “prosecution for alleged cybersecurity offences” and  “no suggestion that public safety has […]

TODAY. Sellafield scandals – a case study in why the nuclear industry must be shut down.

Ralph Nader: Bomber Biden Doesn’t Wage Peace, Save Civilians or Listen to American Antiwar Crimes Advocates

By Ralph Nader / Nader.org Joe Biden has long had a problem with PEACE – as in “ceasefires,” “serious peace negotiations,” and conditioning the transfer or sale of major weapons systems as required by five U.S. criminal statutes. From one side of his mouth, Biden urges futilely Israeli compliance with international law while on the other side […]

Ralph Nader: Bomber Biden Doesn’t Wage Peace, Save Civilians or Listen to American Antiwar Crimes Advocates

Gilded Flickers — I Beg Your Pardon!

You may enlarge any image in this blog by clicking on it. Click again for a detailed view. Today, I’m posting a sequence that would have been impossible to capture as recently as 20 years ago. It’s a tribute to modern technology and to my good luck. I was poking around our desert recently when […]

Gilded Flickers — I Beg Your Pardon!

Milei descubrió a la oposición: las calles le advirtieron que el pueblo no olvida

Buenos Aires, Argentina – Aram Aharonian Mientras en los mentideros políticos se especula cuanto tiempo le queda al ultraderechista Javier Milei al frente del gobierno y quién ocupará su lugar en caso de abandono, el domingo 24 de marzo, a poco más de cien días de gobierno, apareció la verdadera oposición al negacionismo y a las […]

Milei descubrió a la oposición: las calles le advirtieron que el pueblo no olvida

Still Happening Now! – Brazil gold miners carve illegal ‘Road to Chaos’ out of Amazon reserve | Amazon rainforest | The Guardian — Ned Hamson’s Second Line View of the News

“We believe there are at least four excavators in there – and that takes mining in Yanomami territory to the next level, to a colossal level of destruction,” the senior forest campaigner said, as his team prepared to take to the skies to confirm the road’s existence. Source: Revealed: Brazil goldminers carve illegal ‘Road to […] […]

Still Happening Now! – Brazil gold miners carve illegal ‘Road to Chaos’ out of Amazon reserve | Amazon rainforest | The Guardian — Ned Hamson’s Second Line View of the News