Mainstream Media

The Economist’s Racist Headline Must be Retracted Immediately

By William K. Black | New Economic Perspectives | May 10, 2015 It took exactly one day for the Tory election victory in the UK to produce the confidence among the Conservatives only remaining media organ with even a semblance of journalistic professionalism to reveal its true racism against the Scots. The Economist felt empowered to […]

Weaponizing Information

By Joyce Nelson | CounterPunch | April 23, 2015 In mid-April, hundreds of U.S. paratroopers from the 173rd Airborne Brigade arrived in western Ukraine to provide training for government troops. The UK had already started its troop-training mission there, sending 75 troops to Kiev in March. [1] On April 14, the Canadian government announced that […]

Climate change availability cascade

By Judith Curry | Climate Etc. | April 9, 2015 Politicians, activists and journalists have stimulated an ‘availability cascade’ to support alarm about human-caused climate change. Climate change may exacerbate environmental problems that are caused by overpopulation, poorly planned land-use and over-exploitation of natural resources. However, for the most part it is very difficult to […]

MH17 probe looking for witnesses to back ‘Buk missile’ scenario

RT | March 31, 2015 The international team of experts investigating the MH17 tragedy in eastern Ukraine have called for possible witnesses to turn in any evidence that might back a scenario that the airliner was shot down by a Buk missile system. In a video address, released by the Joint Investigation Team (JIT), possible […]

For Hamza: Arms Sanctions against Israel’s Everyday Terrorism

  To boost Israeli arms sales, Palestinian families have  suffered three onslaughts of  ‘systematic genocide’ wars in 6 years and are condemned  to a life that is unnatural, stressful, traumatic waiting for the next Israeli weapons testing that will again turn Gaza into ground zero*……