Oil-rich Abu Dhabi is planning a massive solar project. By Samantha Page Transitioning to clean energy is the single most important thing we can do to avoid the catastrophic effects of climate change. Luckily for us, clean energy keeps getting… Read More ›
Politics
How False Equivalence Is Distorting the 2016 Election Coverage
The media’s need to cover “both sides” of every story makes no sense when one side has little regard for the truth. By Eric Alterman Why do so many reporters and pundits blame “both sides” when only one is responsible?… Read More ›
The Future of Wind Turbines? No Blades
By Liz Stinson A Spanish company called Vortex Bladeless is proposing a radical new way to generate wind energy that will once again upend what you see outside your car window. Their idea is the Vortex, a bladeless wind turbine… Read More ›
Why Is Louisiana Flooding So Badly, And How Can We Prepare For It Next Time?
Setting an unprecedented precedent By Mary Beth Griggs What Happened In Louisiana? Barry Keim, Louisiana State Climatologist and a professor of climatology, can trace the storm back to August 3, when it formed just off the coast of Florida, a… Read More ›
Syria: Aleppo has become a ‘new Srebrenica’
Inhabitants right to see indifference to their destruction as a betrayal By Una Mullally ‘In the 1990s, we said never again,” a UN official recalls. “Aleppo is the new Srebrenica.” After four years of bombardment by government forces, the siege… Read More ›
Hacked emails released by WikiLeaks hint DNC sought to pave Clinton path to victory vs. Sanders
A top Democratic Party official tried to use Bernie Sanders’s religious beliefs to hurt his presidential campaign, according to a startling internal email. The suggestion of undercutting Sanders based on religion is included in one of 19,252 hacked emails dumped… Read More ›
Brexit is last stand of economic neo-liberalism
A working-class revolt has taken place, and frustration is spilling out in all sorts of directions. If Britain is to have a future, the escalating culture wars have to stop From “Grieve now if you must – but prepare for… Read More ›
The Best (or worst) that the US Senate has to Offer
Can anyone find the inconsistencies and inaccuracies in this Speech given by Senator Orrin Hatch at the US Senate Podium two days ago? hmmm June 8, 2016 Senate Session, Part 2 02:33:26 Orrin Hatch MR. HATCH: MR. PRESIDENT, I… Read More ›
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