Here is my essay for this week’s Tomdispatch.com . Check out the great Tom Engelhardt’s introduction at that site, where he reminds us of the […]
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Iraqi Women’s Rights Under Threat
(By Erin Evers) Few disagree that the Iraqi government’s increasingly Shia character has alienated its Sunni population—but what has mounting sectarian division meant for the […]
Egypt: Al-Sisi’s run for President: Bonapartism and Gulf Oil Money
(By Juan Cole) Egypt’s Brig. Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, 59, on Wednesday resigned his military commission and announced that he will run for president. He […]
Donald Rumsfeld: A “Trained Ape” would be better at U.S. diplomacy than Obama
Former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld on Monday blasted President Barack Obama’s diplomacy, saying a “trained ape” could do a better job. In an interview with Fox News host Greta Van Susteren, Rumsfeld complained that relations with…
Invasion of the Corporate Data Snatchers: The Internet of Things
(By Catherine Crump and Matthew Harwood) Estimates vary, but by 2020 there could be over 30 billion devices connected to the Internet. Once dumb, they […]
The Rise of the Drones (Infographic)
Source: SecurityDegreeHub.com RT America: “New drone steals smartphone contents”
Israeli Kibbutz uses Robots To Combat Desert Dust that obscures Solar Panels
The humble chore of cleaning solar panels plays a key role in solar cell efficiency, especially in desert regions where frequent dust storms and lack of rain combine to reduce panel output by up to 35 percent. That same lack of rain also presents a…
Is Russia a “Regional Power” or “Geopolitical Threat”? Obama argues with Romney from the Hague
(By Juan Cole) The peculiar American two-party system followed President Obama to the Hague on Tuesday, where he gave a joint press conference with the […]
Climate Change is hitting us Now & will only Worsen: When will We Start Acting Like Adults?
(By Tom Giesen) Americans tell us through a recent Gallop poll that upward of 65% of them know global warming is happening. However, only 36% […]
Creationists to Neil deGrasse Tyson: Evolution isn’t scientific, but the Book of Genesis is
Creationist Ray Comfort complained that Neil deGrasse Tyson had misrepresented the Bible. The astrophysicist and host of Fox’s “Cosmos” said recently that using the Bible as a scientific source was problematic, because no one had ever scientifically…
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