Tick, tick, tick, … (1896) It’s been 119 years since the scientist Svante Arrhenius published his formula for the greenhouse effect, and the idea that the burning of coal, by adding CO2 to the atmosphere, would raise the earth’s average…
“Nixon Camp Sabotages Viet Peace Talks” — Had the story under that headline been published in real time, Richard Nixon might have lost the 1968 election, and the Vietnam War would likely have ended years earlier. Now, with Robert Parry‘s…
In 1911, Helen Keller, in a private letter to a friend, wrote: Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose…