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In Memoriam Marvin Hamlisch: “Nobody Does it Better” (Carly Simon Performance)
In Memoriam Marvin Hamlisch (1944-2012): Below, his “Nobody Does it Better,” theme of the 1977 Bond film, “The Spy Who Loved Me” and among the […]
Syria: The Battle for Aleppo Begins as Rebels Retreat
The Baath government’s attack on East Aleppo, a rebel stronghold in the past couple of weeks, began Tuesday night, with an assault by advanced Russian-made […]
The Real Hunger Games: Climate Change & Drought (Klare)
Michael Klare writes at Tomdispatch: The Hunger Wars in Our Future Heat, Drought, Rising Food Costs, and Global Unrest The Great Drought of 2012 has […]
Mount Sharp, Mars (Photo of the Day from Curiosity)
NASA has released the first high-res picture of Mars received from Curiosity, showing Mount Sharp
Top Ten Signs you Might be a Nazi Loser
1. If you regularly pose proudly in front of a swastika flag, you might be a Nazi loser. 2. If you refer to “non-whites” as […]
Chinese telecoms giants are taking over the world. Should we be scared? (McClenaghan)
Maeve McClenaghan writes at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism😐 Huawei is not yet a household name in the UK – for one thing, there is […]
On Human unity and the “Curiosity” NASA Control Room
In this video of the NASA control room during the landing of the Curiosity rover on Mars, I don’t see only one race or gender. […]
White Terrorism at Oak Creek: The Paranoid Style in American Violence
We still have only rumors about Wade Michael Page, the gunman who walked into a Sikh Temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin near Milwaukee and opened […]
58 Murders by firearms a year in Britain, 8,775 in US (Oak Creek Reprint Edn.)
Updated Number of Murders, United States, 2010: 12,996 Number of Murders by Firearms, US, 2010: 8,775 Number of Murders, Britain, 2011*: 638 (Since Britain’s population […]
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