Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The only place I’ve ever heard of along the Egyptian mainland’s Red Sea coast is the resort city of Hurghada […]
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A World built on Slavery
(By Greg Grandin) Many in the United States were outraged by the remarks of conservative evangelical preacher Pat Robertson, who blamed Haiti’s catastrophic 2010 earthquake […]
The Promise and Existential Risks of Nanotechnology
Video by Dr. Kim Solez on Existential Risks [of Nanotechnology] prepared for the Lifeboat Foundation The Bill Joy video excerpt from the year 2000 in […]
Not to Reason Why: A New Crimean “War”?
(Juan Cole) The Russian-speaking population of the Crimean Peninsula in the Ukraine is upset by the popular movement in the west of the country that […]
Not only Big Brother but Big Corporation is Tracking you Online Too
(Via Techdirt) What Happens When You Marry The NSA’s Surveillance Database With Amazon’s Personalized Marketing? (via Techdirt) By now, most people who shop online are […]
Israel’s Curb on Freedom of Speech in Anti-Boycott Law Challenged in Court
(By Bill Van Esveld) On [last] Sunday, nine Israeli Supreme Court justices heard a petition to revoke the country’s “anti-boycott law” – a law that […]
A-Pop & Hip-Hop: “Wild Ones” – Myriam Fares and Flo Rida
“Wild Ones” by Myriam Fares & Flo Rida Last summer American rapper Tramar Lacel Dillard a.k.a. Flo Rida reprised his 2011 hit with Sia, “Wild […]
As Ukraine’s President Flees in Overthrow, Lessons for Kyiv from the Arab Upheavals
(By Juan Cole) The dramatic overthrow of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych on Saturday, as he fled the presidential palace and it was occupied by extreme […]
The Deep State is Vulnerable to People Power
(By Juan Cole) My remarks below were published at Bill Moyers’ site this weekend. They came in response to Mike Lofgren’s important essay, “Anatomy of […]
Wind Turbines don’t decline in Efficiency for 25 Years, contrary to Myth
(By James Ayre) Wind Farms Blow Away Old Criticism — Research Shows That Wind Turbines Remain Productive For Up To 25 Years (via Clean Technica) […]
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