Meet Henry Porter, mensch, who: …writes commentary for the Observer. He was born in 1953 and has published four novels with Orion, Remembrance Day, A Spy’s Life, Empire State and Brandenburg. The last won the Ian Fleming Crime Writers’ Association Steel Dagger as the best thriller of 2005. It is set in the eight weeks […]
Warren Senders – voice, tamboura Medford, MA, USA
The Republican Representative of the State of Denial, a regular contender for the title of “Most Corrupt Person in Congress”, was once an “image consultant.” Whatever that is. Actually, I think I understand. An Image Consultant is someone who will help you manipulate the perceptions of other people so you can get what you want […]
When Jaisal Noor of The Real News Network recently interviewed climatologist Michael Mann, she asked him about the recent trend of multinational corporations gradually beginning to recognize the magnitude of the crisis, as reported in a New York Times article, “Industry Awakens to the Threat of Climate Change.” In particular, she wonders if the Times’ […]
Rachel Maddow is one of the few voices of sanity to exist anywhere in our mainstream media system. Watch and see how she pivots from trick basketball shots to the reality of climate change, while critiquing the systemic ADD of our politics. It’s not that hard; it just takes a readiness to see things in […]
Rep. Raúl Grijalva’s statement on the State Department’s assessment of the Keystone XL project is worth your attention. Grijalva is one of the most reliable allies of the environmental movement in today’s Congress, and he nails it in this blistering review of the reports questionable ethical underpinnings: “This process has featured multiple documented conflicts of […]
This was Monday night in Harvard Square in the Peoples’s Republic of Cambridge. I’m in there, wearing a crimson hat, a few people above the “3” in the right-hand “350” sign. We’re protesting the vile collaborationist document masquerading as the State Department’s “impartial” environmental impact assessment of the Keystone XL pipeline project. The report contains […]
It’s a dangerous world indeed; James Clapper, the US’ Director of National Intelligence, made an annual “Worldwide Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community” a few days ago. And unlike the denialists in our politics and media, Clapper’s report directly addressed issues of climate change. For example, we’re going to run out of water: Risks […]
Well, this is utterly infuriating. Our tax-dollar-supported NSA was spying on the communications of other governments during the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Debacle Conference, according to information hero Edward Snowden: The National Security Agency was all prepared to “provide policymakers with unique, timely, and valuable insights into key countries’ preparations and goals for the conference, as […]
…as in the possible outcome of Michael Mann’s ongoing lawsuit against The National Review, which famously compared him to pedophile Jerry Sandusky along with accusing him of falsifying his data. Enjoy: The National Review magazine, longstanding house news organ of the establishment right, is facing a lawsuit that could shutter the publication permanently. According to […]