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Crime Pays (If You’re in Government)

"The weed of crime bears bitter fruit. Crime does not pay. The Shadow knows!" Perhaps you're old enough to remember this tag line from the 1930s radio dramatization of The Shadow. Or perhaps, like me, you spent your childhood listening to "Those Old Radio Shows" on...

The IPCC Prepares to Release More Hot Air

The IPCC is preparing to release a "Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 ºC." That sentence alone should be enough to make everyone within earshot duck for cover from the coming barrage of climate-related doomporn. But, sadly, half of the public will actively cheer...

Uncle Sam Doesn’t Want You Anymore

OK, I've got some good news and some bad news. Which do you want first? The good news? OK, no problem. You know that old anti-war cliché about "Suppose They Gave A War And No One Came"? Well, that slogan might be closer to becoming reality than you think. Learn all...

Is the Korean War Over Yet?

So the Korean War ended this week. Or so you would believe if you scanned the headlines of the British tabloids. "North and South Korea have finally ended the Korean War after 65 years!" blares The Mirror. And reading from the article: North Korea's williingness to...

False Flags Over Syria

. . . As you can imagine, the gaggle of bloodthirsty neocons that infest Trump's war cabinet are unhappy about the prospect of their golden boys in Syria—those lovely child-beheading terrorists that they have been supporting for the last seven years—being vanquished...