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At the Veterans For Peace Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota, on August 26, 2018, the U.S. Peace Memorial Foundation awarded its 2018 Peace Prize to David Swanson, director of World...

Remarks at Veterans For Peace Convention, St. Paul, Minnesota, August 26, 2018. There are a lot of things named Kellogg around here, and few who know why. The two biggest names in the...

Neil Simon, who wrote some of the most popular plays in the 20th century American theater, died at age 91 on August 26, 2018, at New York-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. His comedies...

Karma, the doctrine of inevitable consequence. The universal principle of retributive justice determining one person’s state of affairs. King Charles II of Navarre, infamously...

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Russian Ministry of Defence says "foreign specialists" are preparing to stage a chemical weapons attack in Syria in the next 48 hours to be blamed on Assad...

Reports of Russian warships sailing through the Bosphorus to thwart a possible U.S. strike on Syria

Nixon Had Just Two Months Left in Office When Public Learned in June 1974 He Had Been Implicated by Watergate Grand Jury, Which Wanted to Indict Him; Trump Under Attack on Eight Federal...

United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Thursday, August 23, 2018 Sessions Rebuffs Don’s Attack, and Gets Some Cover from Hill Cronies...

Three U.S. NGOs jointly announced Thursday that they have resolved a consumer-protection action filed by the groups against General Mills in 2016, concerning General Mills’...

Vietnam’s Foreign Ministry has stated that they will re-visit legal channels in an attempt to receive damages for over one million people, from a group of chemical companies including...

Hunger stones and Megadroughts   “The drought in Central Europe has shrunk the rivers & exposed “hunger stones”, where people of the past recorded droughts & the...

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One thing I especially like about Jesse Norman’s Adam Smith is his description of the social and intellectual climate in which Smith grew up. In doing so, he tells us that Smith’s...

When I tweeted the other day that the crisis of capitalism consists of a decade-long stagnation in productivity (which has given us falling wages), a wise man replied that this is true...

From large-scale dam-building to unbridled resource-exploitation, human activity is causing serious damage to Himalayan ecosystems. While all the countries in the region are...

Brahma Chellaney says recent multilateral discussions in Singapore did little to advance preventive diplomacy or conflict resolution. Brahma Chellaney, South China Morning...

INTERVIEW WITH DR DAVE JANDA AT OPERATION FREEDOM by http://goldenjackass.com/main5.html August 25th:  topics covered include the USDollar threatened in global currency...

PressTV Published on Aug 25, 2018 Mount Etna in Sicily sprung into action on Saturday, spitting out lava and sending columns of ash into the sky, after the volcano initially reawoke...

By Tom O’Leary  Portugal is finally on the brink of ending the slump that began with the Great Recession at the start of 2008. But the economy remains far from a full recovery and important...

By Tom O’LearyThe multi-faceted attack on Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the Labour Party continues to include unjustified attacks on his economic policy. The liberal press...

One such intimate relationship is Mother. This relationship is universal and supersedes all relationships. Therefore Hinduism relies heavily on this concept...

Though many books and articles have used and are using Ramani's blog as one of the sources to validate ancient thoughts, I am particularly happy when Scientists take reference to my...

Mike Klonsky reflects on our current gun-happy Secretary of Education, who wants to let schools buy guns with money intended for education, and her predecessor Arne Duncan, who bought...

A team of Washington Post reporters wrote this story. The veil of secrecy is falling away. Yesterday a writer compared him to MacBeth. Maybe he should be compared to Lady MacBeth. “Out...

The following is an excerpt from an interview with me and my collaborator Nader Hashemi that will be published soon by the excellent online magazine Qantara.de. The interviewer...

Twenty years ago today, on August 9, 1998, I delivered this eulogy at the dedication ceremony, or unveiling, of Eugene Zucker, my next-door neighbor growing up and a formative influence...

Once again, it’s the repeats that bring the content this past week.  Tuesday (August 14) you could have seen Bill Nye on a repeat of Last Call, or revisit Conan’s trip to Israel...

If it wasn’t for Harry Connick Junior’s daytime show Harry, I’d have nothing to write about for this past week.  This time it’s the August 7th repeat of a show from January. ...

By Paul Homewood   http://www.dmi.dk/en/groenland/maalinger/greenland-ice-sheet-surface-mass-budget/#   As I pointed out the other day, the surface mass balance (SMB)...

By Paul Homewood   We are familiar with flood markers, which record high points of floods. Apparently droughts also have their own version, hunger stones as NPR reveal:   A lengthy...

Parts of Europe woke up to near record low temperatures, snow and surface frost this morning as cold air swept across the continent from the north. Just a couple of weeks ago the climate...

The contradictions we see in global warming science are often staggering. And climate scientists wonder why so many are skeptical. Some years ago I published 30 contradictory pairs...

UCLA Center X: Mitchell Chang: Affirming Diversity In this week’s Just Talk, John Rogers sits down with Mitchell Chang, professor of higher education at UCLA.  Professor Chang...

Answer Sheet: Will LeBron James’s New School Work Well? Here’s What the Research Says. Basketball great LeBron James is putting millions of dollars from his family foundation...

Victor Davis Hanson // Hoover Institution I live on farm beside a rural avenue in central California, the fifth generation to reside in the same house. And after years of thefts, home...

Victor Davis Hanson // National Review On Aug. 6, 1945, the United States dropped a uranium-fueled atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. Three days later, another U.S. Army Air Forces...

When House Majority Leader Harry Reid wrote to FBI Director James Comey two years ago today to complain that the FBI was foot dragging on mounting evidence “of a direct connection...

He told me that to get into public service, one must have a desire to do what is right. That, while political issues may be popular, they mustn't be the motivation to devote oneself to...

“Realizing this, we decided to turn the standard solution to self-control on its head: What if instead of seeking advice, we asked struggling people to give it,” write Eskreis-Winkler...

This is only part one for the class, do not panic over whatever you think might be completely left out. That said, suggested additions are welcome I am putting the (long) list under the...

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: When I read something this powerful, I am moved to share it. I find the last line strange. Donald Trump will never become “the leader we...

Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: Rudy Guiliani and Trump have recently contended that “collusion is not a crime” but real lawyers know that “collusion” is a straw...

No matter how hard they try, pinning something substantial on the President is a losing effort by the major media.

“We learn from history that we do not learn from history,” the saying goes. That the same can be said of current events brings to mind the much ballyhooed midterm “blue wave,”...

All political parties in independent Yemen, including Houthis, have condemned the latest attack, saying that the blood of children had again been spilled before the blood of those...

While the proposed law specifically bans the use of such flags during protests and demonstrations, it defines a protest as any gathering where three or more people are present, essentially...

Contemporary art had taught them [young Iranian artists] that there is always a different way of seeing. That is from The Dawn of Eurasia, by Bruno Maçães, and it is worth more than...

1. A Bitcoin joke. 2. Are there hot streaks in individual careers? 3. Claims about populism (pdf, slides). 4. NPR: “The Story Behind the Numbers”: Full Episode: https://n.pr/2L2c13m...

Drive-in 'sex boxes' for prostitution are a wild success in Switzerland (tags: Switzerland prostitution ) The risks of alcohol (again) (with actual details of how dangerous, and...

Orangemen, priests and the limits of freedom of expression (tags: freespeech religion scotland ) Eerie Skyglow Called 'Steve' Isn't an Aurora, Is 'Completely Unknown' to Science...

According to new research, after a certain point, ‘good’ cholesterol becomes bad for you, raising the risk of heart attack and cardiovascular death...

Dogs really are a person's best friend — not least because they impact both our physical and our mental health. In this Spotlight, we explain why and how...

Mel B Discusses PTSD Diagnosis, Reveals Intention To Enter 'Therapy Programme' I have never heard of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder causing memory loss people.  Still less that...

In 200023 medical professors proved high intensity ultrasound will clear cancers at one appointment. 1 minute of 8 W 1 MHz ultrasound will do the job.1Mhz ULTRASOUND ULTRASONIC MASSAGER...

This was cropped out of my previous video. Posted it due to popular request! I just went in all directions, just sharing what I was feeling about all this we ... Read more...

The Great American Daily reports, Liberals pounced on the news that Michael Cohen claimed Trump ordered him to violate campaign finance laws. Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse...

Try to remember back to a time long ago, in the last millennium even, when George Bush was president – the first one, who was as much of an evil war monger as anybody but not quite as obvious...

The Democratic Party has decided to limit the role of superdelegates, a little bit, and I’m not sure if it’s a win for progressives or not. On the one hand, Bernie Sanders seems to...

Labor Day for many marks (or used to mark) the end of summer and the return of the kids to school. By that time, Floyd County students will have been in sweltering classrooms for almost...

I recently had the opportunity to ask one of the most knowledgeable botanists I know as many pertinent questions out of my confused and confusing plants folder as I could tastefully...