Auburn, Al. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – It’s not surprising that Pope Leo XIV took the name Leo in honor of Pope Leo XIII […]
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Nevada’s “Crescent Dune” Solar Facility will Produce Energy at Night
Jared Anderson at Breaking Energy writes of technologies for solar power storage that allow the energy generated by the sun to be released at night: […]
Blacked Out: Could Governments just Erase Dissidents from the Internet with a Click?
By Peter Van Buren What if Edward Snowden was made to disappear? No, I’m not suggesting some future CIA rendition effort or a who-killed-Snowden conspiracy […]
Sunni-Shiite Tensions soar in Lebanon; Hizbullah accuses Saudis in Iran Embassy Bombing
Several dramatic accusations and events have heightened Sunni-Shiite tensions in Lebanon, as the Syrian Civil War continues to spill over onto Beirut’s politics. In the […]
On the 80th Anniversary of Repeal of Prohibition, Why isn’t Marijuana Legal?
It is the eightieth anniversary of the repeal of Prohibition. Among the many reasons for the popularity of banning alcohol in the US then were […]
The Public Professor: Dissent in Commodified Higher Education
by Christian Christensen The Public Professor: Dissent in Commodified Higher Education Or…What Kind of University Will My Daughter Attend in 2027? The following is the […]
Top 10 Ways the US is the Most Corrupt Country in the World
Those ratings that castigate Afghanistan and some other poor countries as hopelessly “corrupt” always imply that the United States is not corrupt. VOA reports : […]
Israeli Blockade of 40,000 Gaza Fishermen Briefly Broken by Youth Protesters
About 200 Palestinian youth ctivists briefly broke the Israeli blockade on fishing off Gaza past an arbitrary 6-mile limit on Monday. World Bulletin writes: “”We […]
Can even Colbert make us laugh at America’s tragic growing Wealth Divide?
Stephen Colbert on America’s astonishing wealth divide, which has even the Wall Street Journal worried: Boing Boing gives us the statistics : “#1 The […]
Americans are 5% of World Population, consume 1/4 of its Energy (infographic)
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