Our Score Submitted by: ButtCracker — A tract of Amazon rainforest, cleared by loggers and farmers for agriculture, is seen near the city of Santarem, Para State in 2013. (Reuters/Nacho Doce) Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research, or INPE, released new…
Our Score Submitted by: ButtCracker Edward Snowden has spent the last three years living under temporary asylum at an undisclosed location in Moscow, where he fled following his decision to leak documents relating to the United States’s surveillance programs. The…
Our Score The blob is back. Since 2014, a mass of unusually warm water has hovered and swelled in the Pacific Ocean off the West Coast of North America, playing havoc with marine wildlife, water quality and the regional weather. Earlier…
Our Score A film by John Pilger — The greatest build-up of American-led military forces since the Second World War is well under way. When I first went to Hiroshima in 1967, the shadow on the steps was still there.…
Our Score ‘The War on Democracy’ is John Pilger’s first major film for the cinema – in a career that has produced more than 55 television documentaries. Set in Latin America and the US, it explores the historic and current…
Our Score Submitted by ButtCracker — The rise of Donald Trump and Britain’s Brexit vote come at “the most dangerous time in the history of the human race,” renowned theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking has warned. Writing in an op-ed for the…
Our Score We await the crisis. It could be economic. It could be a terrorist attack within the United States. It could be widespread devastation caused by global warming. It could be nationwide unrest as the death spiral of the…
Our Score War, pestilence, even climate change, are trifles by comparison. Destroy the soil and we all starve Imagine a wonderful world, a planet on which there was no threat of climate breakdown, no loss of freshwater, no antibiotic resistance,…
Our Score Submitted by: ButtCracker — The ripple effects of the Donald Trump election victory in America continue to wash over the shoreline of public opinion, like mini-tsunamis hitting Pacific Rim countries. The seismic changes have indeed been global, and…
Our Score “America deserves Trump,” says one protester fighting the Dakota Access Pipeline. “America is Trump.” Back in September, many of the protesters at the Standing Rock camp cared little who won the presidential election. “Whoever wins, we’re still going…
