The Forever War by Joe Haldeman, 1974 St. Martin's Press hardcover first edition. Wikicommons. Fair use.In his inaugural address, President Trump described a dark and dismal United States, a country overrun by criminal gangs and drugs, a nation stained with the blood seeping from bullet-ridden corpses left at scenes of “American carnage.” It was more…
Month: March 2019
Fear Of Black People And Economic Anxiety Are Causing White Men To Stockpile Guns
Click:visa free travel to china THE GOOD NEWS: Identifying the people who stockpile guns and their reasons for doing so can help reduce gun violence. There’s a bizarre trend in American gun ownership: Over the past 40 years, the percentage of households with guns has declined from 51% to 36%. But since the…
The Egyptian Army’s violent trail of breadcrumbs
Egyptian security officials inspect the site of a bomb blast, in Giza, Egypt, 09 December 2016. NurPhoto/SIPA USA/PA Images. All rights reserved.“The army is a killing machine.” – These were words chosen by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi to address his soldiers as minister of defense. In a video leaked nearly three years ago, he…
What’s Under These Solar Panels Could Solve World Hunger
Solar panels may be old news when it comes to scientific innovations, but Japanese farmers are repurposing them in a novel way. In an attempt to revive aging farming communities and contribute clean energy to the local grid, two farms in northeastern Japan are growing cloud-ear mushrooms underneath the solar panels. Together, the farms will…
Ayotzinapa three years later: new light, few answers
Credit: Forensic Architecture. The third anniversary of the the disappearance of the 43 Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College students (known as normalistas) in Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico has come and has brought new developments with it. Forensic Architecture, a London-based agency that conducts research on behalf of international prosecutors, human rights organizations, and political and environmental justice…
Iceland Asked Its Teens Why They Binge Drink. Their Responses Changed Everything.
Ever party too hard? Well, what if your whole country did? That was the buzzkill facing Iceland in the 1980s and 1990s. And it wasn’t primarily an adult issue. Teens were notoriously out of control — getting inebriated routinely, and not in the stay-at-home-and-chill kind of way. As the Atlantic’s Emma Young reports, “Today, Iceland…
Venezuela: a blueprint for strife
Protesters to the opposition are covered with shields in front of the attacks of tear gas bombs that the Venezuelan National Guard fired to disperse the march destined the Ministry of Interior and Justice in the center of Caracas.May 18, 2017 – Caracas, Venezuela. Adrian Manzol/Zuma Press/PA Images. All rights reserved. Amid the tumult on…
Trump May Be The Reason More Students Are Choosing Historically Black Colleges And Universities
Thurgood Marshall. Oprah Winfrey. Toni Morrison. Spike Lee. Martin Luther King Jr. These are just some of the notable graduates of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU), which are home to many of the nation’s most brilliant scholars. HBCU graduates have not only shaped the course of history, but today, these institutions produce 90% of the nation’s black science and technology…
Join voices against the fascist cult of violence – “Long Live Life! Down with Death!”
February 10, 2018: Thousands of people protest against racism and fascism during a national demonstration in Macerata, Italy. Danilo Balducci/Press Assocation. All rights reservedLast Saturday in the centre of the Italian city of Macerata, a young man affiliated with the extreme-right opened fire on Gideon Azeke, Jennifer Otiotio, Mahmadou Touré, Wilson Kofi, Festus Omagbon and…
An NBA Coach For President? This Fake Campaign Ad Makes A Surprisingly Strong Case.
The NBA is known by casual sports fans to be a far more progressive league than any other in the United States. Coaches and players aren’t afraid to get political, and in doing so, they endear themselves to like-minded fans as leaders off the court as well as on it. Gregg Popovich stands alone as the most…