Month July 2010

British panel clears climate scientists

A British panel on Wednesday exonerated the scientists caught up in the controversy known as Climategate of charges that they had manipulated their research to support preconceived ideas about global warming. But the panel also rebuked the scientists for several…

Pakistan’s “Strategic Depth” and endless war in Afghanistan

Pakistan's national security policy of supporting terrorist groups and militias as proxies against India, known as "strategic depth," is accelerating out of control, and they are either deliberately or inadvertently engineering a globalized religious war, a Clash of Civilizations. If pressure on congress is not increased, if the US remains on the slow, ambiguous timetable it is on now, it will be caught right in the middle of this clash.

Mexico bishop on the drug wars

In an interview with the Reforma newspaper on election day, Sunday July 4, Raul Vera Lopez, Bishop of the Saltillo Coahuila Diocese said the upsurge in violence in the states is derived from agreements between the drug cartels and elected…

Jerry Brown campaign slipping

Democrats fear Jerry Brown’s campaign may be lacking Calif. governor’s race in statistical tie It should not be this way. Jerry Brown should be way ahead in the heavily Democratic state of California. Part of the problem is that Meg…