“There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?”
The words are those of Jonas Salk, developer of the polio vaccine, speaking to Edward R. Murrow in 1955, as...
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23 January 2015
If there is a group of Americans to whom Iraqis struggling with the health effects of depleted uranium, cluster bombs, white phosphorous, and all...
07 January 2015
Oh, the moral force of a snub.
Several hundred cops turn their backs on New York’s mayor as he eulogizes one of their own, killed in the line of duty, and the media have another us-vs.-them story to report. Bill de Blasio’s in...
02 January 2015
“The only good Talib is a dead Talib.”
These words, uttered half a decade ago by the head of intelligence for the NATO coalition force in Afghanistan, summon a far earlier American savagery. As the American empire affects to...
02 January 2015
What to do about the political mess in the Middle East and the rise of the Islamic State and related political movements?
Shortly after the end of World War II, the Western powers and the whole world began to recognize that the...
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