Month April 2006

Day Without a Gringo

The meme spreads – frontpage LA Times, on the spread of the May 1 boycott to Mexico and Latin America. In Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso, the Chamber of Commerce announced that its 5,000 members would neither…

The coming Iran War, pt. 1

Global Guerillas on the coming US attack on Iran Despite the seeming inevitability of this path, the outcomes (“effects”) it would produce are far from inevitable. An attack of this type would be a global system shock that is rife…

The coming Iran War, pt. 2

A country that fears small, distant countries to such an extent that it utilizes military in place of diplomatic means is not a superpower. The entire world knows that the US is not a superpower when its entire available military…

Experts: Global warming causes hurricanes

The record Atlantic hurricane season last year can be attributed to global warming, several top experts, including a leading U.S. government storm researcher, said on Monday. “The hurricanes we are seeing are indeed a direct result of climate change, and…

Damn

40,000 flee Sri Lanka violence Some 40,000 civilians fled homes in northeastern Sri Lanka to escape government airstrikes on Tamil rebel areas in recent days that have killed at least a dozen people, the rebels said Thursday. DJ Mitchell blogged…