Newark, Del. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Fariba Amini writes: Omer Bartov recently wrote an Op-ed piece in the New York Times in which […]
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Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Last Speech Pleading to Preserve our First Amendment Rights
In his last speech before being assassinated, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. complained about unjustified curbs on freedom of speech and freedom of assembly: It […]
Obama Sworn in for Second Term Sunday (Mitch McConnell Photograph)
Obama Sworn in to Second Term: “Our top political priority over the next two years should be to deny Barack Obama a second term.” – […]
Anti-Mercury UN Minimata Convention Approved in Geneva: Impact on Coal?
140 nations meeting in Geneva have concluded an accord to limit mercury emissions, which must now be ratified by individual nations. It has implications for […]
Algerian Military Retakes Gas Plant: 16 Hostages, 32 terrorists Dead
The Algerian military took back the Ayn Imnas gas plant on Saturday, invading it and killing 32 radical fundamentalists, including their leader, Abdul Rahmani al-Nijeri, […]
13 gigawatts of New Wind power in US in 2012, Renewables Half of all New Energy
The US put in 13 gigawatts of new wind energy capacity in 2012, 5 of it in December alone, according to a Bloomberg study. The […]
Syrian Kurds Battle Extremist Fundamentalists
In a potentially very bad sign for the Syrian Revolution, Agence France Presse Arabic reports that in the town of Ra’s al-Ain in the province […]
Was Aaron Swartz a Cyber-Criminal or a Martin Luther King, Jr. of the Internet? (Thompson)
Christie Thompson writes at ProPublica: When Reddit co-founder and internet freedom activist Aaron Swartz committed suicide last Friday, he was facing up to 13 felony counts, 50 […]
Omar Khayyam (162) “Be happy, since once you’re upset it goes on forever”
Be happy, since once you’re upset it goes on forever– as stars move into conjunction in the sky, it will go on. The brick they will […]
How Lance Armstrong’s Lies & Doping are Just like Climate Change Denial & CO2
Understanding how performance-enhancing drugs raise the odds of success in sports helps us understand how dumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere raises the chances of […]
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