By Dr. Elias Akleh Since their occupation of Palestine in 1948 to establish illegal Israel in the heart of the Arab World until the present, Zionist Israelis had initiated seven wars against their Arab neighbors. Six of those were waged after 1967 to maintain their occupation of the rest of Palestin...

There is, of course news of the other sort. But the bad news is easy to find and usually much more widely discussed. Here instead is a round up of the positive news stories from 20 February to 6 March 2009 from Afghanistan. I focus on this, not only to attempt to balance the scales in the tone depar...

The Progressive Automotive X Prize has drawn a lot of impressive cars, but one of the coolest has to be a carbon fiber-bodied, Corvette-inspired biodiesel hybrid that opens like a clam. Lightning Hybrids says the LH4 will achieve 100 mpg and do zero to 60 in 5.9 seconds. Power comes from a 90-horsep...

      With Pakistan’s political instability spreading, nervous concern has mounted over the fate of Islamabad’s nuclear arsenal should Taliban sympathizers gain power within the Pakistan military, but under the terms of secret agreements, U.S. personnel have been st...

Paul Brodsky & Lee Quaintance run QB Partners, a private macro-oriented investment fund based in New York. This month we identify the nexus of the current economic problems and propose a solution to fix them. We discuss why we think our proposal would work, why some policy makers probably alread...

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PREPARE YOURSELF FOR THE SECOND OF OUR SHOWS THIS MONTH-- A SPRING SPANGLE WE CALL... Ask Dr. Hal's 18th Amendment! ------ARE YOU MISSING THESE PERFORMANCES? ----- WEDNESDAY, March 11th! ==PRESENTED ON OUR ALL-NEW STAGE== AT The Famous Chez Poulet Gallery-Cabaret where SHOWTIME-- more or less-- BEGI...

 http://wtcdemolition.blogspot.com/ In attempting to ascertain what caused the destruction of the WTC on 9/11/01, and the great heat and molten metal observed for up to six months afterward, one must account for ALL the phenomena involved in WTC destruction, and the aftermath-- and not just one...

Accelerated sea-level rise? I mentioned a few days ago a report that sea levels are rising faster than predicted by the IPCC. There is another such report just out here. Below is an email on the subject from Professor Dr. Nils-Axel Morner [morner@pog.nu], a leading world authority on sea levels and ...

Empire of the Sun, French edition, Denoël (1985), with cover art ‘Singapour 1945′ by Ronald Seatle. Thanks to Herve for all cover scans. Interview by Tony Cartano & Maxim Jakubowski. Translation by Dan O’Hara. The following interview, originally titled ‘Le passé compos...