Energy: With “Peak-Oil” Passed, It Is Time for a Post-Carbon Age
The World Energy Outlook report 2010 was released by the International Energy Agency (IEA) on November 9th. The implications for the future of our planet are grim and stark unless some urgent and concerted actions are taken. The IEA projects, for its 25-year energy policies scenario, that conventional crude oil production will never regain its […]
Haiti: Cholera Has Reached Port-au-Prince, Thousands Could Die
Between the devastating January earthquake, Hurricane Thomas, the cholera epidemic spreading quickly, and the very slow coming international help, Haitians are not getting any kind of break. Even if Hurricane Thomas wasn’t strong enough to wreck the island, heavy rains and floods brought by the storm, a week ago, are now spreading the cholera epidemic […]
Israel’s Right And The GOP Are Cheerfully Chanting: “Bomb, Bomb Iran”
The victory of the GOP at the US midterm election was celebrated in Jerusalem by Prime Minister Netanyahu’s Likud party and his allies from the far-right. Israel’s right and far-right understand that, with Republicans controlling the US House of Representative,the modest attempts by the Obama administration to put pressure on Israel to stop the expansion […]
US Justice: Sticks For Blacks And Latinos, Carrots For Cops
On Friday, former police officer, Johannes Mehserle, who killed unarmed passenger Oscar Grant on New Years day 2009 was sentenced by Judge Perry in Los Angeles. The police brutality occurred in Oakland, but the trial was moved to Los Angeles to avoid a repeat of the protests following the killing of Oscar Grant. Judge Perry […]
Massachusetts Voters Ready To Legalize Marijuana In 2012
Voters in Massachusetts appear to be ready to legalize marijuana in 2012, according to an analysis of the votes on local cannabis legalization advisory ballot questions last Tuesday.
