Worth a Few Minutes of Your Time: “Why water is really, really weird | BBC Ideas”
“Why water is really, really weird | BBC Ideas”
“Permanent War Economy” (Why the U.S. Never Wants Peace)
The following interview (with respected American journalists Robert Scheer and Chris Hedges) gives a better historical background of Mikhail Gorbachev’s role in the end of the (first!) Cold War than anything I’ve found lately. In the first 15 minutes of this video you can get a better understanding of the new Cold War and…
War on the Earth: The nightmare of military spending on an overheating planet
By Stan Cox Reprinted with permission from TomDispatch September 22, 2022 The Nightmare of Military Spending on an Overheating Planet – A Big Carbon Bootprint and a Giant Sucking Sound in the National Budget On October 1st, the U.S. military will start spending the more than $800 billion Congress is going to provide it with…
“If you’re a Democratic voter, there’s a chance you’ll show up to vote this November and discover you can’t”
Look Out: How the GOP’s Newest Anti-Voting Scam Works Purging Democratic voters from the rolls has now gone nationwide, at least in states where voting is controlled by Republicans Thom Hartmann Reprinted from The Hartmann Report Get ready. If you’re a Democratic voter, there’s a chance you’ll show up to vote this November…
The Grim Poetry of Science
I’m only passing this on to you because the hands on the Doomsday Clock are just 100 seconds to midnight and our current president seems more recklessly confrontational with our nuclear foes than any other president in my lifetime. In the following short TED Talk (titled “I’ve studied nuclear war for 35 years —…