Day June 13, 2007

Legacy of the neocons

The endgame in Iraq is now clear, in outline if not detail, and it appears that the heavily favored United States will be upset. Once support for a war is lost, it is gone for good; there is no example…

More proof our Army is insane

The Army is now admitting it dumped 64 million pounds of nerve and mustard gas into the oceans, often quite near the US. They apparently can’t be bothered to check the sites for leakage and say they don’t even know…

Tax the polluters?

Ian Angus, in “Confronting the climate change crisis,” explains why another favorite solution by capitalism to global warming, taxing greenhouse gas emissions, won’t work. Another “market-driven” approach proposes levying taxes levied on corporate greenhouse gas emissions. But if the “carbon…