Source: Herald Scotland by Anne Johnstone December 3, 2009 The Earth is flat. At least that used to be the universal view until about the fourth century BC. By medieval times, most Europeans accepted that it was spherical but old ideas die hard. So it was that just 40 years ago members of the International Flat Earth Society dismissed [...]

Source: Reuters by Sayed Salahuddin December 2, 2009 KABUL – Thirty thousand more U.S. troops for Afghanistan? Esmatullah only shrugged. “Even if they bring the whole of America, they won’t be able to stabilise Afghanistan,” said the young construction worker out on a Kabul street corner on Wednesday morning. “Only Afghans understand our traditions, geography and way of life.” U.S. [...]

Source: The Fifth Estate (CBC News) November 15, 2009 How could scientific fact, which many believe could determine the very future of the planet, become a political battleground, left versus right, environmentalist versus climate change sceptic? The Denial Machine investigates the roots of the campaign to negate the science and the threat of global warming. It tracks the [...]

by Paul Street October 23, 2009 Dissident U.S. author Paul Street was interviewed by Brazilian journalist Leonardo Sequeira via e-mail between 10 AM and 12 PM on September 18, 2009. The interview took place before: the awarding of the Olympics to Rio/Brazil (not Chicago/US), the Orwellian granting of the Nobel Peace Prize to Obama, Obama’s claim [...]

October 15, 2009 Part 1 Dubbed by the National Review as “the most dangerous political philosopher in the West” and the New York Times as “the Elvis of cultural theory,” Slovenian philosopher and public intellectual Slavoj Žižek has written over fifty books on philosophy, psychoanalysis, theology, history and political theory. In his latest book, First as Tragedy, [...]

by Aleem Maqbool October 30, 2009 Recently, while Pakistan’s government may have been saying the things that the White House wants to hear, the country’s media and public have often been openly hostile towards the United States. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s charm offensive this week suggests that she recognises that. Town hall-style meetings with students in Lahore [...]

by Jonathan Hiskes October 22, 2009 There are good reasons not to get too worked up about public-opinion polling on issues like climate change and energy. Polls confirm, over and over, that the public opinion is malleable—so much rides on the wording of questions. And most people don’t analyze policy in their spare time, so why ask [...]

Keith Olbermann on what really matters when it comes to health reform by Keith Olbermann October 7, 2009 Since August 23rd of this year I have interacted daily with our American Health Care system and often done so to the exclusion of virtually all other business. It is not undercover reporting, and it is not an expert study [...]

by Matthew Jaffe October 5, 2009 WASHINGTON – The Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve lied to the American public last fall when they said that the first nine banks to receive government bailout funds were healthy, a government watchdog states in a new report released today. Neil Barofsky, the special inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief [...]

Filósofo. Publica ‘Elogio de la Política Profana’, en el que traza las líneas de futuro para el “nuevo radicalismo” por Andrés Pérez 2 de octubre, 2009 El filósofo francés Daniel Bensaïd acaba de publicar su Elogio de la Política Profana (Península), una obra densa y compleja, con la que este pensador espera contribuir a un contraataque de la [...]