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 […]
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 […]
Free Market Capitalism: A Bipolar Vicious Cycle of Boom and Bust
What most economists are still calling “The Great Recession” officially started in December 2007. However, the global financial meltdown started a bit later, in the fall of 2008, in the United States. Calling this massive global crash “recession” was always an understatement made to avoid a complete global panic. A more accurate term would have […]
The Trial of the Catholic Church: A Tale of Moral and Financial Bankruptcy
Tens of thousands of cases have emerged in dozens of countries from Asia to Europe and from Australia to the Americas. No country seems immune, and the vulnerability of the victims seems only contingent on the number of clergy. The people of the world, their political representatives, their law enforcement and their courts, must execute their responsibilities and demand full accountability and compensation from not only the individual perpetrators of these heinous crimes but the entire organization, including the Vatican, that both protected and aided these pedophiles. Letters of apology, hush money, and empty promises will no longer suffice. The Catholic Church, and Pope Benedict IVI, must stand trial.
