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 […]
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’ […]
Our continuing hunger for illusory cheap energy is the enabling force behind the corporate sociopaths who are spilling the Earth’s blood over the land. North Dakota, the nation’s No2 oil producer behind Texas, recorded nearly 300 oil pipeline spills in less than two years, state documents show. None was reported to the public, officials said. […]
If you’re a sports fan, you should probably be getting involved in this: ESPN announcers Brad Nessler and Jimmy Dykes mainstreamed the right-wing myth that cold weather in January disproves man-made climate change. During the first half of a January 7 game, Dykes discussed a pattern of cold weather blanketing much of the United States […]