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Humanizing the World vs Going Back to Normal
After months of waiting, the highspeed vaccination train is finally leaving the station, and hopefully, soon, they’ll be room for everyone on board. It is perhaps the first time in history that every human being on our planet has faced the same phenomenon simultaneously. The worldwide scale of this pandemic… »
Web Inventor Tim Berners-Lee Argues Internet Access Must Be a ‘Basic Right’
“We must work to make sure all young people can connect to a web that gives them the power to shape their world.” By Jessica Corbett World Wide Web creator Tim Berners-Lee on Friday marked the 32nd birthday his digital innovation by arguing that “we must recognize internet access as a… »
How a Guaranteed Income Can Actually Solve Inequality
Poverty in America disproportionately affects women and people of color, and that is precisely what hinders political action to address it—even when solutions abound. By Sonali Kolhatkar An ongoing study conducted in Stockton, California, examines how the lives of low-income Americans can improve if they are simply given money—a modest,… »
Silently Disciplining Research
By Reseach Professor Emeritus at Prio, Ola Tunander, Modern Times, Ny Tid, Whistleblower supplement, March 6, 2021 Researchers who question the legitimacy of US wars, seem to experience being ousted from their positions in research and media institutions. The example presented here is from the Institute… »
Nuclear weapon facilities to expand in New Mexico
LANL leases second office complex in Santa Fe as nuclear weapons growth pushes admin staff off “The Hill” 2,000 more staff needed for “24/7” plutonium “pit” production mission for only 20 pits/year Today Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) has announced that… »
The Choice for Democrats in Congress: Go Big or Go Home.
The precedent created by letting one or two moderates derail popular legislation supported by the rest of the caucus is truly dangerous. By Joe Dinkin The President’s party almost always loses ground in Congress in the midterms. But Democrats have the chance to defy the normal political gravity and gain… »
Trump & Biden’s Secret Bombing Wars
By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies On February 25th, President Biden ordered U.S. air forces to drop seven 500-pound bombs on Iraqi forces in Syria, reportedly killing 22 people. The U.S. airstrike has predictably failed to halt rocket attacks on deeply unpopular U.S. »
Why Big Pharma Shouldn’t Have Any Control Over COVID-19 Vaccines
While a public desperate for protection against COVID-19 is quick to shame “vaccine hunters,” the real culprits are the companies refusing to share their publicly funded intellectual property and the governments allowing them to get away with it. By Sonali Kolhatkar At a recent virtual gathering of parents and faculty… »
The Attack That Never Happened: Cuba and the U.S. Fantasy of Sonic Attacks
They called it “sonic attacks,” “health incidents,” and “Havana syndrome.” In September 2017, the United States government decided to withdraw all nonessential personnel and their families from their country’s embassy in Cuba. This decision was based on alleged inexplicable noises whose causes were unclear. Word spread that… »
There Is Only Us
“There is no us vs. them…there is only us.” -Hal Strickland “It is so tempting to personify good and evil, to locate each in the person of whomever appears most conspicuously in the dramas offered for our consumption. One side holds Donald Trump in exactly the same way that… »
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