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• One Star Over, a Planet That Might Be Another Earth

  By konigludwig on August 25, 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  Another Earth could be circling the star right next door to us. Astronomers announced on Wednesday that they had detected a planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, the closest neighbor to our solar system. Intriguingly, the planet is in the star’s “Goldilocks… Read More ›

• Paying a living wage: who wins?

  By Sara on August 24, 2016 • ( 2 )

  

• The Future of Wind Turbines? No Blades

  By genvana on August 20, 2016 • ( 6 )

  

  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?

  By konigludwig on August 20, 2016 • ( 2 )

  

  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 ›

• ‘It’s NOT safe in Germany anymore’ German family flee to Russia to claim asylum

  By fada1 on August 11, 2016 • ( 7 )

  

    Fleeing over the border in their VW camper van the Griesbach family told Vladimir Putin’s Government they had escaped the ‘German dictatorship’ where they could no longer raise their children. Carola Griesbach, 51, and her husband Andre, 45, raced… Read More ›

• Syria: Aleppo has become a ‘new Srebrenica’

  By konigludwig on August 4, 2016 • ( 6 )

  

  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 ›

• UN peacekeepers sat around and watched women get raped

  By fada1 on August 2, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  JUBA, South Sudan — South Sudanese government soldiers raped dozens of ethnic Nuer women and girls last week just outside a United Nations camp where they had sought protection from renewed fighting, and at least two died from their injuries,… Read More ›

• Hacked emails released by WikiLeaks hint DNC sought to pave Clinton path to victory vs. Sanders

  By konigludwig on July 23, 2016 • ( 3 )

  

  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 ›

• Vast Purge in Turkey as Thousands Are Detained in Post-Coup Backlash

  By konigludwig on July 19, 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  ISTANBUL — The Turkish government’s crackdown after a military coup attempt widened into a sweeping purge on Monday, cutting a swath through the security services and reaching deeply into the government bureaucracy and political and business classes. The sheer numbers… Read More ›

• Brexit is last stand of economic neo-liberalism

  By lakeviewpilgrim on July 8, 2016 • ( 2 )

  

  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 ›

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