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By David Swanson, World BEYOND War Shutdown or no shutdown, not a single war, base-construction project, or war ship has been halted in its course, and the National Commission on Military...

The ancient Romans were pretty liberated in their habits — and that’s before we get into all the truly weird stuff from the greatest empire the world has ever seen. Roman Emperor...

British Tragedy Shows Road to Hell Is Paved with “Populist” Demagogy; Opposition Must Oust May and Honor Growing Demand for Second Referendum; Polling Shows Staying in European...

A Judge in the city of Quevedo, Ecuador has ruled in favor of peasant farmers in the province of Los Ríos and has ordered the Ministry of Agriculture in the South American country...

Global Warming Causes 1500 Private Jets to Gather at Davos. And then the passengers will lecture the rest of us on how to lower our carbon footprint.    ...

Brahma Chellaney, The Times of India On 70th anniversary of PRC’s founding, the limits of its Party-led model are showing Four decades ago, the Chinese Communist Party, under its...

RT America Published on Jan 22, 2019 In the long dispute of the South China Sea, Beijing claims most of the sea as its territory but countries like Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia...

And Kancheepuram,Tamil Nadu is called the City of temples. And Kumbakonam. But the city that had over one thousand temples is, Bhubaneswar/Cuttack. Most of the temples have been...

Three members of the Texas House of Representatives wrote this article, marking “School Choice Day” at the legislature. It appears in the Texas Tribune. https://www.tribtalk.org/2019/01/23/whose-choice-is-school-choice/...

The year goes out like a whimper where science and technology guests are concerned.  That’s true most years, as programs are often in repeats, and the MythBusters megamarathon...

By Paul Homewood   h/t Ian       What a tangled web they weave! From the Telegraph:     The BMW i8 plugged in to the first ever hydrogen fuel cell EV charging station British firm AFC...

Four climate scientists assert (1) the last ~130 years of temperature changes fit “perfectly” into statistical indices of natural variation, and (2) a long-term deep cooling...

Have You Heard: These Education Stories Didn’t Get Enough Attention in 2018 In the latest episode of Have You Heard, Jack and Jennifer dig into five—make that six—education...

Victor Davis Hanson // National Review The old anti-Semitism was mostly, but not exclusively, a tribal prejudice expressed in America up until the mid 20th century most intensely...

For an abundance of reasons, the world’s food systems need to become far more energy-efficient and sustainable if we want to successfully feed the world’s population by 2050...

1. List of prediction market projects. 2. Facial recognition tool tackles illegal chimp trade. 3. Center for Innovative Governance seeks research fellow. 4. Aging and men’s tennis...

For the first time in nearly a decade, the Supreme Court has agreed to hear on appeal a Second Amendment case.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry lodged a protest on Tuesday with the Swiss ambassador to Tehran, who has represented the U.S. in diplomatic relations with Iran since 1980, when diplomatic...

?Please, listen to us?: What it?s like being female at America?s biggest economic conference (tags: economics harassment women usa conference ) Ministers agree to consider Lib...

Cramping, bloating, and constipation or diarrhea characterize irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). In this article, we explore the reasons behind 10 common symptoms of IBS. We also...