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Before the Flood, a Leonardo DiCaprio documentary about climate change, was shown as a fundraising event for the Standing Rock camp for land and water rights in North Dakota. The connection between the two issues is represented by the Dakota Access Pipeline. Together these issues point to a variety of…
The news of the world, near and far, is dominated today by resource wars: military campaigns abroad, peaceful occupations at home. At the center of controversy are oil and gas pipelines. As the projects are transnational by nature, global-scale interests seek to bypass or eliminate competing local interests. Who agrees…
The daily news repeats episodes of bizarre shootings, with “lone nuts” killed outright or consigned to the psych ward for their zombie-like behavior. Political thrillers like The Manchurian Candidate give us a glimpse into the dark world of brainwashed assassins, programmed to shoot on command. Less known is the long,…
A review of Daniel Hopsicker, Welcome to Terrorland: Mohamed Atta & the 9-11 Cover-up in Florida (2012) Daniel Hopsicker embraces journalistic flair and common-sense irony to present the case for a 9-11 cover-up, focused on the flight schools in Jeb Bush’s Florida. Admirably he succeeds in the challenge of how to…
