The Kek Wars, Part Four: What Moves In The Darkness | John Michael Greer

Aug. 8, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- In last week’s thrilling episode of The Kek Wars, we saw how a band of outsiders linked by the network of online forums loosely called “the chans,” and armed with the ...

Was the 2016 election legitimate? It's now definitely worth asking the question | Virginia Heffernan

Credit: Talking Points MemoJuly 28, 2018 (Los Angeles Times) -- We need to talk about a forbidden subject: the legitimacy of the current president. There’s been a code of silence around President Don ...

Russia and the far right’s cozy affair | E.J. Dionne Jr.

Image: Los Angeles TimesJuly 29, 2018 (Washington Post) -- The links among Vladimir Putin, President Trump, and segments of both the Republican Party and the American conservative movement seem bizar ...

The Kek Wars, Part Two: In the Shadow of the Cathedral | John Michael Greer

July 25, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- In last week’s thrilling episode of The Kek Wars, we talked about the way that America’s managerial aristocracy and its broad penumbra of lackeys and hangers-on retre ...

The Massacre of Inn Din: How Rohingya Are Lynched and Held Responsible | Ramzy Baroud

Dr. Ramzy BaroudRamzy Baroud -- World News Trust July 18, 2018 “In my four years as High Commissioner, I have heard many preposterous claims. That claim is almost in its own category of absurdity. Ha ...

Fat consumption is the only cause of weight gain | Laura Graham

Credit: CC0 Public Domain July 13, 2018 (MedicalXpress) -- The only thing that causes weight gain is fat consumption, a new study finds. Scientists from the University of Aberdeen and the Chinese Aca ...

Global warming may be twice what climate models predict | Alvin Stone

Sunset. Credit: Patrik Linderstam, Unsplash July 5, 2018 (Phys.org) -- A new study based on evidence from past warm periods suggests global warming may be double what is forecast. Future global warmi ...

Nuclear Calendar -- June 28, 2018 -- FCNL

Nuclear Calendar June 28, 2018 June 26-29 House considers FY 2019 Defense appropriations bill (estimate). June 28 8:00-9:00 a.m., John Harvey, "Six Months After the NPR," Mitchell Nuclear Deterrence ...

Dorothea Lange documents children caged by the U.S. government (in 1942) | Mickey Z.

Photo: Dorothea Lange, 1942 (public domain) Mickey Z. -- World News Trust June 25, 2018 More than just a “good war,” former NBC newsman and renowned The Greatest Generation author Tom Brokaw deemed W ...

Braiding may be key to using time crystals in quantum computing | Lisa Zyga

Braiding time crystals. Credit: Bomantara and Gong. ©2018 American Physical Society June 20, 2018 (Phys.org) -- Braiding two different modes of time crystals can generate states necessary to perform ...

War Is A Racket | Major General Smedley Butler, USMC

A speech delivered in 1933, by Major General Smedley Butler, USMC I. WAR IS A RACKET WAR is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most viciou ...