"Question: Is nuclear power good or bad? Answer: No. Some nuclear is good, some is bad. For example, the Govt. should support an IFR."
Refusing to be victims in this game of fossil fuel roulette, communities like Little Buffalo in Alberta are leading the way towards energy independence. They are turning their gaze to the sun.
For a couple of years after 9/11, there was a solid US-Russia anti-terrorism cooperation that basically gave the Kremlin a freer hand in crushing the Chechens.
Iatrophobia: an abnormal or irrational fear of doctors or going to the doctor.
Many American scientists distrusted the Russian field trials. Russian colleagues responded with a sentiment similar to Sting’s Cold War hit: the Russians love their children too.
Fourteen years later and do you even believe it? Did we actually live it? Are we still living it? And how improbable is that?
Secrecy may have a grubbier motive, forcing state agencies to keep information from the public to prevent a backlash against their usage.
It is impossible to show solidarity with the people of Egypt while arming and supporting the tyranny oppressing them, but this is the hypocrisy at the heart of western foreign policy.
Part two of the insider view of negotiations between Greece and the Eurogroup. When is a rescue not a rescue but a seizure of assets? Interview.
On the tenth anniversary of Katrina, we republish an invitation to ponder the incapacity of the US government to respond to the disaster in New Orleans. What was at the root of that paralysis? From the archive, September 5, 2005.
