Ground Your Warplanes, Save the Horn of Africa (Ramzy Baroud)

Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust July 21, 2011 -- “When you are hungry, cold is a killer, and the people here are starving and helpless.” Not many of us can relate to such a statement, but millions o ...

Human Rights Watch Calls For Investigation Of Bush, Other Top Officials for Torture

Inquiry Into 2 Deaths in CIA Custody Insufficient July 11, 2011 -- WASHINGTON, DC (Human Rights Watch) -- Overwhelming evidence of torture by the Bush administration obliges President Barack Obama to ...

System Justification Theory (PsychWiki)

(PsychWiki) -- System Justification Theory (SJT) is a theory of social psychology that postulates that people are motivated to bolster, defend, and justify the status quo – that is, the prevailing so ...

The Curse of the Crocodile: Russia's Deadly Designer Drug (Simon Shuster)

June 20, 2011 -- CHICHEVO, Russia (Time.com) -- The new arrivals at the drug rehab center in Chichevo, a tiny village that is a two hours' drive east of Moscow, are usually given two weeks without ch ...

US Lawmakers to introduce bill to legalize marijuana (Luis Robayo)

June 22, 2011 (AFP) -- A group of U.S. representatives plan to introduce legislation that will legalize marijuana and allow states to legislate its use, pro-marijuana groups said Wednesday. The legis ...

Climate of Denial: Can Science and the Truth Withstand the Merchants of Poison? (Al Gore)

WCW's Bill Goldberg, a former NFL linebacker, puts the hurt on an opponent. June 22, 2011 (Rolling Stone) -- The first time I remember hearing the question "is it real?" was when I went as a young bo ...

Deus ex Machina: Will economic collapse save us from climate catastrophe? (Dan Allen)

June 17, 2011 (Energy Bulletin) -- “I don’t think the American public has gripped in its gut what could happen.... We’re looking at a scenario where there’s no more agriculture in California.” --Stev ...

US Nuke Regulators Weaken Safety Rules (Jeff Donn)

June 20, 2011 -- LACEY TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) -- Federal regulators have been working closely with the nuclear power industry to keep the nation's aging reactors operating within safety standards by rep ...

Oceans in Distress Foreshadow Mass Extinction (Marlowe Hood)

Pollution and global warming are pushing the world's oceans to the brink of a mass extinction of marine life unseen for tens of millions of years, a consortium of scientists warn. June 20, 2011 -- PA ...

Confessions of a Nuclear Power Safety Expert (John Perlin)

June 14, 2011 (Miller-McCune) -- When Italy decided in the mid-’70s to add nuclear power to its power portfolio, young mechanical and nuclear engineer Cesare Silvi was among those attracted to the op ...

Warning: extreme weather ahead (John Vidal)

Tornados, wildfires, droughts and floods were once seen as freak conditions. But the environmental disasters now striking the world are shocking signs of 'global weirding' A tornado makes its way acr ...