Journalist, film-maker and author, John Pilger is one of two to win British journalism’s highest award twice. For his documentary films, he has won an Emmy and a British Academy Award, a BAFTA. Among numerous other awards, he has won…
Month: June 2016
We’re Swimming in Fuel, Why Burn Our Food Supply?
It’s vacation season – a time when families pack their cars, put their pets in the kennel, and take road trips to the beach and national parks. With gasoline prices at historic lows, motorists will pay less to travel this…
Clinton’s Energy Plan Pits Green Against Green
Will solar and wind farms take over parks and preserves? Posted at Jun 20, 2016 5:13 PM John Bicknell There is a civil war going on in the environmental movement. No blood will be spilled, but like the conflagration that…
Clinton and Trump Are Historically Unpopular. Here’s Why
Architects of disastrous Iraq War still at large
By Neil Clark Bombs going off in Iraq? Well, it happens all the time – what’s there to see? Let’s all move along shall we? On Thursday, at least 13 people were killed in a ISIS attack on a café…
The Pentagon’s Real Strategy
By Andrew Cockburn, June 16, 2016 These days, lamenting the apparently aimless character of Washington’s military operations in the Greater Middle East has become conventional wisdom among administration critics of every sort. Senator John McCain thunders that “this president has…
Environmental Groups Change Tune on Nuclear Power
Focus on climate change has raised profile of reactors, now viewed as reliable, carbon-free source of energy Some of the nation’s most influential environmental groups are softening their longstanding opposition to nuclear power, marking a significant shift in the antinuclear…
Exxon attacks Dem AGs in day two of retaliatory court action
Exxon Mobil asked the Massachusetts Superior Court to bar Attorney General Maura Healey from continuing a probe. (AP Photo/Steven Senne) Exxon Mobil went after Democratic attorneys general for a second day on Thursday for targeting the company over climate change.…
Gun Ownership Is An Individual Constitutional Right
–Given the recent Orlando tragedy you can agree with some of what Hillary says about guns but be worried that the different U.S. agencies missed “something” 3 times (Trumps on to something there huh, forget politically incorrect profiling?). Worry about this folks: our government uses…
Google’s Gotcha
An editor at a major news magazine (not U.S. News) told me recently that Google can monitor people only when they sign in to a Google platform – Gmail or Google+, for example. Not so, I replied. Google can and…
Where Do Matters Stand?
Paul Craig Roberts, June 9, 2016 On the eve of World War II the United States was still mired in the Great Depression and found itself facing war on two fronts with Japan and Germany. However bleak the outlook, it…
Silencing America as it prepares for war
27 May 2016 John Pilger Returning to the United States in an election year, I am struck by the silence. I have covered four presidential campaigns, starting with 1968; I was with Robert Kennedy when he was shot and I…
A Russian Warning
Tuesday, May 31, 2016 ClubOrlov We, the undersigned, are Russians living and working in the USA. We have been watching with increasing anxiety as the current US and NATO policies have set us on an extremely dangerous collision course with…
How California was Stolen from Sanders
Hillary Clinton: Electing a “Foreign Spy” for President?
By Prof. James Petras Global Research, June 06, 2016 During her 4 years as Secretary of State of the United States (2009-2014), Hillary Clinton controlled US foreign policy. She had access to the most confidential information and state documents, numbering…