The case of the general in charge of the US nuclear arsenal who spent his time in Moscow drinking and chasing whores (who, it is thought, might well have been planted by Putin’s goons) points up a little discussed problem with the top military brass. This comes on top of a case of corruption in …
Happy Christmas to our numerous readers. Here is something to humbly ponder upon over the holiday: A new book by Michael Ryan, “Decoding Al Qaida’s Strategy: the Deep Battle against America”, among other things, discusses what it is that Al Qaida and its loose affiliates (and by extension much of the Islamic world) so heartily …
The rate of teenage pregnancy in the UK is dropping like a stone. The proportion of pregnancies in under-18s has fallen by more than a third since 1998, to 30.9 per 1,000. This remarkable reversal (the figure had been rising since the late 1960s) is “no accident”. It’s a direct result of the work of …
The Israeli Prawer Plan that aimed to forcibly relocate over 40,000 Israeli Bedouin from their ancestral lands is no longer under consideration by the Israeli Knesset. Demonstrations on both sides of the Green Line, and throughout the world, succeeded in raising enough doubt about this plan to help take it off the table, however temporarily. …
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There’s a word for this new era we live in: the Anthropocene. This term represents the idea that we have entered a new epoch in Earth’s geological history, one characterized by the arrival of the human species as a geological force. The Nobel-Prize-winning chemist Paul Crutzen coined the term in 2002, and it has steadily …
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