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By David Swanson, Executive Director, World BEYOND War, July 3, 2019 Ending bigotry has gone mainstream among the enlightened people of the developed world. Did you spot the acceptable...

Betsy Ross is the focus on this Fourth of July, but perhaps not the way most people would have predicted. Nike created a shoe with a version of the “Betsy Ross Flag”–a U.S. flag...

After a drought caused water levels to recede dramatically in an Iraq reservoir, a 3,400-year-old palace was temporarily revealed that was hailed as an “archaeological sensation.”...

United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Wednesday, July 3, 2019 Heavy Thunderstorms in DC Holiday Forecast May Rain on Don’s Parade; To...

United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Tuesday, July 2, 2019 Pence Cancels New Hampshire Trip and Rushes Back to White House; Putin Cleared...

Lawmakers in Austria’s lower house of parliament voted to ban all uses of controversial herbicide glyphosate on Tuesday, as the substance faces a slew of lawsuits in the US...

Use of Bayer’s contested weedkiller glyphosate, the subject of more than 10,000 lawsuits in the US over claims it causes cancer, will eventually die out, German Chancellor Angela...

South / North

The Arctic trend from 2010 is flat on day 183. South / North

Monetary incentives to waste pickers and an environmental tax on plastics can help stem the problem. Brahma Chellaney, The Times of India A G-20 environmental meeting on June 16 failed...

Brahma Chellaney, The Hindustan Times Narendra Modi’s rise as the dominant force in Indian politics cannot obscure the daunting foreign-policy challenges he faces, including...

Sahasranama addressed to Jina and Buddha. In this connection,it may be of interest to know that there is a Sahasranama addressed to Vishnu in Sikhism. Sikh scripture “Sundar Gutka”...

This Kingdom coexisted with the most ancient Kingdoms of India,that is the Mahajanapadas,the Sixteen Kingdoms of India,which is mentioned in the Vedas. The astonishing fact is...

  Charles Foster Johnson, leader of Pastors for Texas Children, reflects on the meaning of citizenship:   America is not a geography. Or nationality. Or ethnicity.    America...

  The Boston Globe has a daily feature called Fast Forward written by Teresa Hanafin. I enjoy reading whatever she writes. Here she is in Trump’s parade: All I wish on this Fourth...

June goes out with a whisper, not even a whimper, where science and technology content on late night is considered.  The best I can offer this week is from the repeats.  The June 27...

The summer doldrums continue for science and technology late night content.  No repeats to note for last week, and one new guest of note.  Simon Pegg, occasionally found in these...

By Paul Homewood     Meanwhile back in the UK, daytime temperatures have been average at best:   As for rainfall, despite hysterical claims a week or two ago, there have been several...

By Paul Homewood   An excellent rebuttal by meteorologist Robert Endlich of extreme weather claims in the US:   In describing the errors in the Fourth National Climate Assessment...

In 1517, a 33-year-old theology professor at Wittenberg University walked over to the Castle Church in Wittenberg and nailed a paper of 95 theses to the door, hoping to spark an academic...

A new paper appearing in the journal Earth Sciences here authored by Hermann Harde of the Helmut-Schmidt-University, Hamburg Germany, is stirring up more controversy among the...

Answer Sheet: What Research Really Says about Closing Schools — and Why It’s a Bad Idea for Kids Paul Robeson Public High School in the Englewood neighborhood of South Side Chicago...

Jersey Jazzman: The Facts About Newark's Schools: An Update Thanks to, among other things, Cory Booker's presidential campaign, Newark's schools remain in the spotlight. Back...

Victor Davis Hanson // National Review In the current American–Iran stand-off are a number of global players. That is hardly new, but what is novel is that, for the first time in decades...

Victor Davis Hanson // American Greatness We are now in the fourth year of an anti-Trump mania, and about reaching the point of caricature. The Left should have learned something after...

For what should've been an obvious disaster, Child's Play expertly crafted its own story and kept the entertainment consistent from beginning to end without ever dragging on...

TMV wishes all of you and yours a wonderful 4th of July as all of us enjoy this holiday and reflect on its traditional meaning. Image by Jill Wellington from Pixabay The post HAPPY INDEPENDENCE...

The sponsors of SB 50 seem to recognize that the state’s housing problems are at least partially man-made. Indeed, California is a leader in regulating just about everything —...

1. Elad Gil on industry towns. 2. Art Carden reviews *Big Business: A Love Letter to an American Anti-Hero*. 3. Modern-day dandy dresses as an 1820s (?) gent. 4. YouTube is underrated...

U.S. Representative Justin Amash, the libertarian-minded Republican who thinks President Trump should be impeached, has quit the GOP.   NOT EDITED.

Biden took it on the chin in the first Democratic Party debate. Whether he does better in the next debate could determine whether he gets the chance to be the nominee to challenge President...

A critical reading between the lines of a Reuters article confirms that Washington has failed to cobble together a united opposition in Venezuela that is popular enough to win in the...

Eva Bartlett visited refugees in Syria escaping the horrid conditions in the Rukban Refugee Camp, a desolate outpost in the US administered deconfliction zone. What she found was...

The sponsors of SB 50 seem to recognize that the state’s housing problems are at least partially man-made. Indeed, California is a leader in regulating just about everything —...

1. Elad Gil on industry towns. 2. Art Carden reviews *Big Business: A Love Letter to an American Anti-Hero*. 3. Modern-day dandy dresses as an 1820s (?) gent. 4. YouTube is underrated...

An astrobiologist tries cooking in Antarctica at -70ºC.(tags:viaFanf antarctic cooking temperature )I Don't Think a Woman is Electable In 2020 Because Last Time Around the...

Boris Johnson avoids Scotland as he brands Westminster an 'England parliament'(tags:England politics UK scotland )Survival of the Richest - How the elites are planning to cope...

The glycemic index (GI) scores foods according to how quickly they raise blood sugar. This scoring system can help people with conditions such as diabetes make positive dietary choices...

Scientists have shown that programming bacteria to help the immune system fight cancer can shrink tumors and increase survival in mice.

by Brandon Smith Technology can be dazzling but also debilitating to real human progress, and when I say “progress” I do not mean advancements in the world of machines but advancements...

by: Lance D Johnson   (Natural News) It has been five and half years since Colorado first legalized recreational marijuana and began taxing its consumption. Even though the state...

And on it goes.  Trump continues to shock everybody, with his infantile parade but more so with the revelations that conditions in the conversation camps along the U.S. Mexico border...

Happy Fourth of July, I suppose.  It’s the national holiday of the United States, and every country has the right to celebrate its national holiday, right?  Of course. The problem...

It seemed simple enough. On the Blue Ridge Parkway on the way back from an oil change yesterday, and in no particular hurry. I pulled off to the shoulder of the road and grabbed my camera...

One of my favorite features on the trip to town along 221 this time of year is the wildflower assortment, the “unplanted garden” in which yellow is disproportionately well represented...