by Charles Goyette | Apr 6, 2021 | News
Thanks to maritime engineers and salvage crews – with a lift from the full moon and the tides – that Japanese-owned container ship that was wedged across the Suez Canal for about a week has finally been freed. A backlog of 400 stranded ships has cleared...
by David Swanson | Jan 26, 2021 | News
From January 18 to February 14, four large billboards are going up around Seattle that proclaim “Nuclear Weapons Are Now Illegal. Get them out of Puget Sound!” What can this possibly mean? Nuclear weapons may be unpleasant, but what is illegal about them,...
by William Astore | Jan 15, 2021 | News
I don’t have any personal war stories to tell. In my twenty years in the U.S. Air Force, I never saw combat. I started as a developmental engineer, working mainly on computer software, and morphed into a historian of science and technology who taught for...
by Craig Murray | Sep 10, 2020 | News
The great question after yesterday’s hearing was whether prosecution counsel James Lewis QC would continue to charge at defense witnesses like a deranged berserker (spoiler – he would), and more importantly, why? QC’s representing governments usually...
by Maj. Danny Sjursen (ret.) | Jul 4, 2020 | News
From Scheerpost:Once again, this Fourth of July, Americans will celebrate – to the unwitting militarist racist tune that is the “Star Spangled Banner” – more than just the nation’s Independence Day. Though most folks will, if at a reasonable social distance, focus...
