Month May 2008

Divisions on the Left

DSP splits in Australia along lines all familiar to the Left. The fundamental dividing line therefore among Marxists today is between those who wish to continue with the demonstrably failed paradigm of building ideologically homogenous “parties” that are ostensibly “Leninist”,…

Obama on guns

“We need sensible gun laws,” said the Senator. “I just got back from Montana where just about everyone has guns. In that culture, fathers and sons bond over hunting. You can’t take that away from rural America. But the inner…

Plutonium economies coming?

Several countries are moving full speed ahead on next-gen nuclear reactors that can use reprocessed spent nuclear fuel. The US is not one of them, even though it has vast (and expensive to store) stockpiles of spent fuel being warehoused.…

More on the true costs of the Iraq War

From a new study by Oil Change International on the greenhouse gas emissions and opportunity costs of the Iraq War. Projected total US spending on the Iraq war could cover all of the global investments in renewable power generation that…