Richard C. Cook: Is Earth an 'Ill-Fated Planet'?
To esoteric knowledge the Universe is a vast living being, conceived in glory, resplendent in its multidimensional complexity. This idea of a Universe evolving in the direction of greater refinement is much different from the usual academic concepts which view it as an accidental sputtering mechanism doomed to expire like a cinder or collapse like a leaky balloon.
Murray Dobbin: Left Needs Soul Searching
If progressives, whether in unions, activist groups or political parties, don't soon begin doing politics differently -- radically differently -- they will fail to show that "a better world is possible."
And the price of failure will be catastrophic.
Chossudovsky: Martial Law and the Militarization of Public Health
There is ample evidence, documented in numerous reports, that the WHO's level 6 pandemic alert is based on fabricated evidence and a manipulation of the figures on mortality and morbidity resulting from the N1H1 swine flu.
Michel Boddington - Laos: Land of Plenty in Apocalyptic Times
I have been amazed to read that the great new financial elite of USA – for example, Tim Geithner and Ben Bernanke (not quite so new – more recycled) – are predicting a resumption of economic growth by the end of this year, or perhaps early in 2010, or certainly in 2011. No. There will be no resumption of traditional economic growth this side of 2015 at the very earliest. Perhaps never.
M K Bhadrakumar: China dips its toe in the Black Sea
Imagine a new Cold War but one in which the two superpowers are economically the same size, which was never true in the old Cold War because the USSR was always a lot poorer than the USA.