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November 22 1963 – fifty years later
November 22, 2013, Comments Off on November 22 1963 – fifty years later

American theologian Reinhold Niebuhr wrote of the assassination: “I never knew how his brief and brilliant leadership ...

Greece, EU and world economy 2011-2013
October 12, 2013, 15 Comments

A bit of black humor: Clarke and Dawe: Lending merry-go-round How can broke economies lend money to other broke economie ...

China, energy, economy & environment 2004-2013
October 12, 2013, 4 Comments

Desperate measures — Rivers are disappearing in China. Building canals is not the solution (The Economist) Eight o ...

Montreal can work. Let’s just do it!
October 6, 2013, Comments Off on Montreal can work. Let’s just do it!

Beryl Wajsman: Montreal can work. Let’s just do it! Candidates for office – and the bureaucrats already in – must ...

President Obama’s 2nd term
October 1, 2013, 1 Comment

State of the Union 2013: President Obama’s address to Congress (Transcript) Why the Shutdown Looks So Bad for the GOP ...

Earth Overshoot Day
August 23, 2013, Comments Off on Earth Overshoot Day

Earth Overshoot Day In 8 Months, Humanity Exhausts Earth’s Budget for the Year August 20 is Earth Overshoot Day 20 ...

Arctic Meltdown: Economic and Security Implications of Global Warming
August 22, 2013, Comments Off on Arctic Meltdown: Economic and Security Implications of Global Warming

Northeast Passage: Russia Moves to Boost Arctic Shipping This year has seen a record number of ships pass through the No ...

Alberta floods 2013
July 26, 2013, Comments Off on Alberta floods 2013

Naheed Nenshi Dear Diary: ‘This is no miracle, no act of providence. This is Calgary’ Tuesday Where there was once a ...

Arctic Exploitation
July 11, 2013, 1 Comment

Who Owns the Arctic? A Stocktaking of Territorial Disputes (NYT) The Arctic Council agreed on Wednesday to expand to inc ...

The Future of the State of Africa
June 10, 2013, Comments Off on The Future of the State of Africa

George Monbiot: Corporate Carve-Up Under the pretext of preventing hunger, the rich nations are engineering a new scramb ...

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