On May 20 1999, Nature magazine sounded what might have been the death knell of the biotech food industry. A short paper in the respected British science…

Not even a day seems to go by anymore without some whack job in academia, a public health department or even the entertainment industry spewing…

The year 2015 will be remembered as a year of expanding global warfare and militarism. It began with discussions of the possibility of “total war”…

American Exceptionalism is the belief that, even when the US is flawed in its policies, those politics are justifiable because there is something innately morally…

It’s the job of science journalists to look beyond data – we have to look at the people doing the science and whether they have…

The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images. – Guy Duborg Have you seen The Best of…

One hundred years ago European civilization, as it had been known, was ending its life in the Great War, later renamed World War I. Millions…

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As I illustrate in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, we in the emerging American police state find ourselves reliving the same…

The leaves came off the last trees — a crabapple, a willow and a hardy Norway maple — during the first week of December this…

It is 70 years since large parts of Europe lay in ruins. Great power aspirations, nationalism and fascism made the continent the focus of two…

Economic forecasting is a mug’s game. One thing that has been learned from the financial crisis and Great Recession is that even those equipped with…