Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates has been supporting a wide array of research on geoengineering since 2007, ScienceInsider has learned. The world’s richest man has provided at least $4.5 million of his own money over 3 years for the study of methods that could alter the stratosphere to reflect solar energy, techniques to filter carbon dioxide […]

At Facebook, there is a grand panic going on over teaparty people. They are seen as the embodiment of black-shirted reaction in the United States. And at some point, they certainly could be; but for right now they are are an expression of the frothing impotence of white nationalists in the face of […]

April is National Gardening Month! You know the basics of how to start your own vegetable garden, but where do you go from here? Here are some crops that even the least green thumbed among you can tackle, and tips on how to make them flourish.
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“Ethiopia is one of the hungriest countries in […]

Pasting in an email spam from the so-called RPUSA, that made me think Mussolini the minute I started reading it. Lots of anticapitalist rhetoric, including citation of Latin American socialist leaders. Violent antisemitism. Links to violent gun-nut websites.
When I was doing covert-ish stuff in the military, one of the tradecraft stand-by’s was […]

Affluent college students set up tents, cardboard boxes and crates on private property housed in their makeshift “shanty town,” as a protest against the plight of homeless people. Living outdoors for a night – food, toilets and police protection readily available – this camping offers protection for a night spent in full view of the […]

Noam Chomsky has beenso influential among the libertairn left for so long that I can’t pass up the opportunity to invite a discussion of this speech… pro, con, etc.
One month ago, Joseph Andrew Stack crashed his small plane into an office building in Austin Texas, hitting an IRS office, committing suicide. He left a […]

“We’ve been sold a major myth on the grounds that the application of chemicals will improve yield. It’s not true,” she said. “It will kill soil.”
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…and from Paraguay…
Uncontrolled expansion of cattle farming in Paraguay has led to “cutting down trees and planting exotic grasses,” says environmentalist Guillermo Gayo. To put a halt to […]

Long long ago on the internet far far away, we discussed how immigrants, particularly Latin@ immigrants, would increasingly be targeted as the Official Other when things started getting tougher for Suburbia (the hothouse for future political reaction). Well, here we go:
The Arizona Legislature has just stepped off the deep end of the immigration debate, […]

The farm and chemical industry may now be as vulnerable as the tobacco industry was in the 1990s. People in the U.S. have finally become suspicious of the safety of the (non-organic) food supply. Millions are wary of home pesticides, weed killers, and synthetic garden and lawn fertilizers. Big agricultural chemical companies are under increasing […]

Build into this training the military’s age-old bias and resentment of women. Even with a force that now includes women, gays, and lesbians, and rules that now prohibit drill instructors from using racial epithets and curses, drill instructors still routinely denigrate recruits with words like pussy, girl, bitch, lady, dyke, faggot, and fairy, and still […]