Photo by Jon Tyson After the long-time skittish New York Times published a lengthy essay by the renowned genocide scholar, Prof. Omer Bartov of Brown University titled “I’m a Genocide Scholar, I Know It When I see It,” the Palestinian-hater, Timescolumnist Bret...
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Eighty Years of Nuclear Terror
Image by Dan Meyers. Ever since the atomic bombings of Japanese cities in August 1945, the world has been living on borrowed time. The indications, then and since, that the development of nuclear weapons did not bode well for human survival, were clear enough. The two...
How Grassroots Labor Activist Fight Callous Policies
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Harmon Dent’s congregation “adopted” an apartment building in Beaumont, Texas, and started handing out gift baskets, food, and other treats to the disadvantaged children living there. Dent, the pastor, also leads church members in...
Misusing the Children: The UK Online Safety Act, Privacy and Censorship
Photo by freestocks The United Kingdom can always be relied upon to supply us with the eccentric, the admirably dotty, and the odd extreme bit of adventure in policy. Lately, those mad protectors and censors with their shields of false virtue and hollow intellect...
The Strategic Nightmare That is National Missile Defense
Image Source: Missile Defense Agency – Public Domain Last month, I wrote about the waste and futility of deploying a national missile defense (NMD), focussing on the technical issues that make the system unnecessary, unworkable and unaffordable. This week, I want to...
Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Genocide
Free Gaza banner in Hiroshima. As the Zionist project devolves from apartheid and ethnic cleansing to the final solution of its decades-long genocide, we also commemorate 80 years since the August 6 and August 9 nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Let us...
The Strategic Nightmare That is National Missile Defense
Image Source: Missile Defense Agency – Public Domain Last month, I wrote about the waste and futility of deploying a national missile defense (NMD), focussing on the technical issues that make the system unnecessary, unworkable and unaffordable. This week, I want to...
Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Genocide
Free Gaza banner in Hiroshima. As the Zionist project devolves from apartheid and ethnic cleansing to the final solution of its decades-long genocide, we also commemorate 80 years since the August 6 and August 9 nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Let us...
The Strategic Nightmare That is National Missile Defense
Image Source: Missile Defense Agency – Public Domain Last month, I wrote about the waste and futility of deploying a national missile defense (NMD), focussing on the technical issues that make the system unnecessary, unworkable and unaffordable. This week, I want to...
Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Genocide
Free Gaza banner in Hiroshima. As the Zionist project devolves from apartheid and ethnic cleansing to the final solution of its decades-long genocide, we also commemorate 80 years since the August 6 and August 9 nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Let us...
Eighty Years of Nuclear Terror
Image by Dan Meyers. Ever since the atomic bombings of Japanese cities in August 1945, the world has been living on borrowed time. The indications, then and since, that the development of nuclear weapons did not bode well for human survival, were clear enough. The two...
How Grassroots Labor Activist Fight Callous Policies
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Harmon Dent’s congregation “adopted” an apartment building in Beaumont, Texas, and started handing out gift baskets, food, and other treats to the disadvantaged children living there. Dent, the pastor, also leads church members in...