Last week, we reviewed the questions and doubts surrounding claims that the chemical weapon sarin has been used in Syria. The Obama administration has since claimed that its ‘red line’ has indeed been crossed – it now has firm evidence…
Tuesday, 18 June 2013 11:10
Tuesday, 18 June 2013 11:07
More than likely, you’ve never heard of TTIP and don’t care what it is. Well, it’s the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, a proposed new trade pact between the United States and Europe. Would it be a good thing if we cobbled together an agreement? Yeah, probably. But Jared Bernstein wisely counsels us not to believe [...]
Tuesday, 18 June 2013 11:00
Good thing there aren’t traces of Prozac in the water we drin– oh, wait. ABC News reports: Fish swimming in water with a trace of the anti-depressant Prozac became edgy, aggressive and some even killed their mates. (Read more…) The fish were subjected to traces of the drug by a research group at the University [...]
Tuesday, 18 June 2013 10:59
To think it only took the world’s most (in)famous whistleblower to get the NSA to disclose that it had heroically managed to prevent terrorist attacks involving the New York Stock Exchange (we supposed they refer to the Manhattan-based TV studio and not the actual exchange where the servers are now housed in Mahwah, NJ) and [...]
Tuesday, 18 June 2013 10:53
On Tuesday, the Pentagon is expected to announce that women will be allowed train for and potentially serve in elite combat positions in the US military, including the Army Rangers, Navy SEALs, and other special ops forces. (In January, then Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta lifted a ban on women serving in combat roles, which [...]
Tuesday, 18 June 2013 10:53
Have the House Republicans been watching too much Revolution on TV, or is there really a threat of an EMP that we should be worried about? From the Washington Examiner: Amid growing fears of a massive electromagnetic pulse hit from either a solar flare or a terrorist nuclear bomb, House Republicans on Tuesday will unveil [...]
Tuesday, 18 June 2013 10:39
Las sociedades mineras del mundo encuentran en Canadá una legislación fiscal y judicial favorable para sus operaciones de explotación en todo el mundo. Ciudadanos, ecologistas y organizaciones sociales están preocupados por los impactos sociales y medioambientales de la explotación minera…
Tuesday, 18 June 2013 10:38
A study has identified the brain regions and interactions involved in impersonations and accents.
Tuesday, 18 June 2013 10:16
While many impartial observers have been lamenting the death of Abenomics now that the Nikkei – essentially the only favorable indicator resulting from the coordinated and unprecedented action by the Japanese government and its less than independent central bank – has peaked and dropped 20% from the highs, Wall Street was largely mum on its [...]
Tuesday, 18 June 2013 09:58
It is all too easy to dismiss endless charts showing long-run correlations that have become useless in the current liquidity-fueled boom in stocks and real estate in the US with the “well, correlation is not causation” meme, but in Spain, we suspect, few will argue that the relationship between the surging unemployment rate of the [...]
Tuesday, 18 June 2013 09:58
The BLS reported today that inflation is now running wildly out of control! It jumped from 1.1 percent in April to….1.4 percent in May. (Read more…) Obviously this means we need more austerity. Or so the wise men and the conservative shills, allied as usual when it comes to monetary and fiscal policy, will tell [...]
Tuesday, 18 June 2013 09:45
The Gulf of Guinea. He said it without a hint of irony or embarrassment. This was one of U.S. Africa Command’s big success stories. (Read more…) The Gulf… of Guinea. Never mind that most Americans couldn’t find it on a map and…
Tuesday, 18 June 2013 09:37
Submitted by Daniel J. Graeber of OilPrice.com, A mixed picture is starting to emerge from the Middle East in terms of oil production. Several members of the 12-member OPEC oil cartel are embroiled in turmoil or struggling to ensure post-war political gains. (Read more…) Oil production from the Middle East declined by 1.5 million barrels [...]
Tuesday, 18 June 2013 09:31
Some critics from the left and the right characterized my recent article “Syria and the Sham of Humanitarian Intervention” as an unnecessarily harsh indictment of a policy that provides a necessary tool for the international community to protect human rights…
Tuesday, 18 June 2013 09:16
A new sensor will help to make microphones hypersensitive: “Think of traditional videoconference equipment. Several people are sitting around the table, but the microphone has been placed where its sound reception is less than optimal. With technology of this sort, a microphone will be able to “see” where the sound comes from, pick up the [...]
Tuesday, 18 June 2013 09:15
A new breakthrough will help with the development of light-regulated therapeutic molecules.
Tuesday, 18 June 2013 09:11
Starting momentarily, the Director of the National Security Agency, General Keith Alexander, will again testify on the Hill, this time before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence about the value of the NSA surveillance program and the extent of the damage caused by leaks of top secret data. More importantly, as CNN reports, he [...]
Tuesday, 18 June 2013 09:10
by Dam-Press. (Translated from the Arabic) During his recent visit to London and meeting with British Prime Minister Cameron, President Putin passed on a message to the US and France in response to their recent announcement that they will arm…
Tuesday, 18 June 2013 08:52
Late last week, Detroit’s emergency manager Kevyn Orr, outlined his plan to stop a disaster becoming a catastrophe in the slumping city. The initial suspension of payment on pension obligation bonds is just the start as Orr warns unsecured creditors may only receive up to 10 cents on the dollar as about $2.5 billion in [...]
Tuesday, 18 June 2013 08:37
Anyone holding substantial deposits (read over $/€100,000) in G-8 banks: consider this your formal warning. All data about such deposits will soon be shared among all “developed” countries, and any (every) country which needs to “resolve” its failing banking sector will use the Cyprus bail-in model and use “tax evaded” deposits to provide a liquidity [...]
Tuesday, 18 June 2013 08:07
Whistleblower Edward Snowden spoke publicly yesterday for the first time in a week and issued a defiant response to denunciations of his actions by both corporate-controlled parties in the US. He declared, “All I can say right now is the…
Tuesday, 18 June 2013 08:00
Initially a response to a hike in public transportation prices, the unrest is centered around the country’s wealth inequality and spending of public money on lavish stadiums in preparation for the 2014 World Cup. Russia Today reports: Mass protests continued throughout Brazil on Monday, with hundreds of thousands of demonstrators converging in Sao Paulo, Rio [...]
Tuesday, 18 June 2013 07:57
It started off a simple protest in Sao Paulo as a demonstration by students against an increase in bus fares from R$3 to R$3.20, and then quickly morphed into general demonstration of discontent with the nation’s political classes on both sides of the spectrum involving over 200,000 across the country, with those marching on Monday [...]
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