Better Not Tell Prince Charles

I was prevaricating about the bush whether to run with the second story at all; it did have certain appeals, a bit of insight into another ...

Unexpected Alphabet No 16

Well, what a day. Everything from the High Victorian visions in Westminster Abbey- red uniforms and internal green trees like it must have b...

Your Head of State (US) Grew Up On Foodstamps, My Head of State (UK) Grew Up On The Postage Stamps

The header taken from a line of Johann Hari, a columnist at The Independent of London, where he talks to Amy Goodman about the politics of t...

Congratulations to the 2011 Get Ready Scholarship winners!

Six students have been chosen as the recipients of the American Public Health Association’s annual Get Ready Scholarship. The scholarship, w...

CDC Report Highlights Children’s Food Environment in Maine

A report out from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week shows that Maine is doing better than the nation at improvi...

Guess What? The Cops Tell Lies and Fit You Up. The Lower Echelons Kill People Tell Lies and Fit You Up

You might be astonished to hear. Justice is impossible if we cannot trust police forces to tell the truth by George Monbiot 12 April 2011 F...

Food Reward: a Dominant Factor in Obesity, Part I

A Curious Finding It all started with one little sentence buried in a paper about obese rats. I was reading about how rats become obese whe...

Browntail Moths

Browntail moths make their webs in the fall in oak, apple, serviceberry and other trees and shrubs. Hairs from the larvae can cause a rash...

A Fairytale Wedding? What Nonsense! Hear Hear Old Chap

A German's eye view of the Wedding and the Windsors A Fairytale Wedding? What Nonsense! A German Journalist's Royal Frustration The ...

Guantanamo Bay Just Another Prison - Wikileaks - Press TV Video

Press TV presents a twenty five minute in depth report on the recent publication of the Guantanamo/Wikileaks documents. Talking heads from L...

Chernobyl 25 Years On. Democracy Now Video

Chernobyl is still the ecological disaster area that ever it was, but it is this bit from the transcript that I keep banging on about regard...

The Appalling Vista - The Fight Back Against Operation Ore

I have reproduced an important piece of work, The Appalling Vista - The Fight Back Against Operation Ore, here and here.

Iron Filing

In accordance with my New Year resolution to try and stop driving by interesting things without photographing them, I give you the remains o...

Anti-War Candidate Announces for President! Don't Talk Daft

He also wants to slash the military budget. He's also opposed to the war on drugs, and he's never mentioned Jesus once. Do you want ...

Hasta la vista, Baby! Telling It Like It Is

I like this fellow, he writes with certain kind of verve. Hasta la vista, Baby! Skynet is already here 22/04/2011 As Christians in the US an...

''My Granny Lives on Mars'' Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

Update below. Some of the information may have been obtained through torture. US officials waterboarded Khalid Sheikh Mohammed 183 times at ...

Britain Demands! Has nobody an Ounce of Shame Anymore?

Jesus Christ almighty! and here's me having a go at the Yanks for their rank hypocrisy. The boy Hague ''demands end to Syria vio...

Chinese Pot Calls US Kettle on Human Rights

This mighty list, and it is mighty, as mighty as it is undeniable, and this from a nation that has no less than sixty eight capital offences...

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The Great (Taliban) Escape

Whoops! How the Taliban Pulled Off a Massive Prison Break This morning, in a major setback to U.S. efforts in Afghanistan, almost 500 poli...