The Lessons of Fukushima: Surviving Nuclear Disasters

Instead this tragedy will go down as one of the most criminal examples of near-universal mismanagement and misdirection, a glaring recurring fact that has prevailed in nuclear disasters decades past. In hindsight it is easy to see that we have always looked to nuclear energy as a form of salvation, “an energy too cheap to meter”, but some of our creations have led us to seek a salvation from our technology.

The Greatest Depression Has Only Begun

The greatest depression in human history is still in its starting stages. What the media and many officials often refer to as the “hangover” from the global financial crisis is in fact the end of…

Why Regime Change in Libya?

By Ismael Hossein-zadeh: In light of the brutal death and destruction wrought on Libya by the relentless  US/NATO bombardment, the professed claims of “humanitarian concerns” as grounds for intervention can readily be dismissed as a…

A Century of US Military Interventions

The chart at[right] (amended for 2010) shows the increase in US Military Spending from 1998 to 2010. Current Annual US Military Expenditures constitute 55% to 60% of the world total – meaning the US spends…

Gates Should Learn Lessons from Cold War

U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates recently threw out the notion of “learning from the arms race between the Soviet Union and the U.S.” It seems like idle talk, but in reality it is a…

Real picture of Sino-Latin America ties

The Western media continually criticizes China’s role in Latin America as being “neocolonial” and claims it has an “insatiable demand for commodities”, so I was keen to observe the people’s attitude toward China during my…