World Affairs

There is a lot of attention right now on the COW governments lying to We the People, probably with intention to mislead. In some circles there is also dismay (and cynicism) at the ability (and sometimes apparent eagerness) of We the People to be...

Happiness is a fundamental human quest and may be understood as a state of physical and emotional well-being and inner contentment, founded on principles of sociality and of not harming other sentient beings or the environment. Happiness is not a...

The bad news about the future, according to the book, published in 1999, is that without a healthy earth we aren’t going to have a healthy economy or a healthy society. The good news is that we can have all three by making some logical...

With the spectre of a Chernobyl-like nuclear disaster looming ever larger at one of Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant as a result of the 2011 tsunami, one has to ponder if this, finally, spells the end of the nuclear...

Gaslands is an American film about the the poisoning of water systems that occurs with the drilling process for natural...

In recent years I have become aware of the issue of depleted uranium (DU) and its use by the US Military in Iraq in 1991 and again in the current Iraq war. The photos of birth deformities and stories of suffering resulting from DU shocked me,...

Blowin’ in the Wind, by award winning filmmaker David Bradbury and co-producer Peter Scott is a wake-up film that exposes the genocidal catastrophe of the use of depleted uranium in...

Since the 1980s the US has spent some $15 billion on storage facilities deep within the supposedly geologically stable Yucca Mountains in Nevada, and still issues arise over the ability to maintain an air- and watertight environment for the minimum...