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Stuart Staniford: Should The Last Few Years Have Updated Your Idea of Peak Oil? For oil production to halve over the next twenty years, it would have to decline on average by 3.5%/yr throughout that time (possibly some years by more, some years by less...

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders met for their seventh debate Sunday. Hosted by CNN at the University of Michigan in Flint, the debate touched on the city’s water crisis, gun control, education and other issues...

Remarks at Physicians for Social Responsibility annual event in Baltimore, Md., April 18, 2015. Video. It is an honor to be asked to speak to a group of people doing as much strategic and principled good as you, not to mention the good that those of...

AMERICA IN CRISIS – By Leslie S. Chin, M.Sc., P.Eng. Synopsis The United States of America was founded on the basis of unity, liberty and equality. These principles were compromised from the beginning because the US was a slave owning nation and discrimination...

Reposted from THE ATLANTIC   As the great research ship Chikyu left Shimizu in January to mine the explosive ice beneath the Philippine Sea, chances are good that not one of the scientists aboard realized they might be closing the...