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The Globalization of NATO, Author:  Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, Clarity Press (2012), Pages: 411 with complete index. The world is enveloped in a blanket of perpetual conflict. Invasions, occupation, illicit sanctions, and regime change have become currencies and orders of the day. One organization – the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) – is repeatedly, and very controversially, involved in some form or another in many of these conflicts led by the US and its allies. NATO spawned from the Cold War. Its existence was justified by Washington and Western Bloc politicians as a guarantor against any Soviet and Eastern Bloc invasion of Western … Continue reading →

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The future always changes. From heroic space adventures in the 1960s to paranoid cyberpunk in the 1980s, you can learn a lot about the zeitgeist of an era by looking at how people imagined the future. This is also true of most early science fiction from the 18th and 19th centuries. Like today, writers back then projected their fears, ambitions, and prejudices onto a future society that we, as residents of a far-off epoch, can now appreciate with gimlet-eyed hindsight. 10 Memoirs Of The Twentieth Century One of the first English-language texts to deal with the future was Memoirs of the … Continue reading →

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If you know even a small amount of any Romance language, many English words have relatively obvious etymological backgrounds. But the paths to their origins aren’t always so clear when words are eponyms—coined from people’s names—and scientists are very often the culprits in these cases. Here are some words you might not know were eponyms, and whose scientific namesakes have been hiding in plain sight. 1. VOLT The unit that measures electric potential is named after Count Alessandro Volta, an Italian physicist (pictured above) who invented the electrical battery, known as the voltaic pile, in 1800. The volt unit of measurement … Continue reading →

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Joseph Rice’s manner is a long way from militia stereotypes. The Patriot Movement leader does not present as a crazed gun nut nor as a blowhard white supremacist. He’s genial, folksy, and matter-of-fact in laying out his views. But talk to him for long enough, and time and again the Patriot Movement leader returns to what really drives him: land. Rice is running for Josephine county commissioner in south-west Oregon and believes that the federal government’s current role in land management is illegitimate and even tyrannical. His campaign is well-advertised around the country and appears well-organised. His growing experience in … Continue reading →

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William Gadoury, a 15-year-old Canadian from Quebec, has revolutionized the academic world by using ingenious reasoning to discover a previously unknown Maya city. Based on his own theory – that the Maya chose the location of their cities following constellations, he realized that there must be another undiscovered city in the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. Satellite images of the area have confirmed his hypothesis. As reported in the Spanish newspaper ABC, William Gadoury has become a little star in the eyes of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), NASA, and the Japanese space agency (JAXA) with this finding, which will be … Continue reading →

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I am particularly fond of Medieval movies so I was very keen to do this list. As I progressed through my research I was shocked to realize how few of them are accurate historically. For that reason, this is a list of 9 movies when I would have preferred to do 10. For the purposes of this list, the Medieval period is considered to have run from the 6th century to the 16th century. The films selected here are not always 100% accurate but are the best of all movies of this genre for being as accurate as possible; do … Continue reading →

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Jailed Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy is filing a lawsuit against Barack Obama, challenging his placement in solitary confinement and seeking to dismiss the federal government’s felony charges that could condemn him to die behind bars. The suit from the rancher, who led a high-profile standoff against the government in 2014, also names US judge Gloria Navarro and Nevada senator Harry Reid and will be filed on Tuesday, according to Bundy’s attorney, Joel Hansen, who provided the Guardian with a draft copy. The complaint offers a defense of the 70-year old’s infamous comment that black people may have been “better off … Continue reading →

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This story appears on April 19, 2016, issue of Forbes. THE MENTAL INFECTION known as “political correctness” is one of the most dangerous intellectual afflictions ever to attack mankind. The fact that we began by laughing at it–and to some extent, still do–doesn’t diminish its venom one bit. PC has an enormous appeal to the semieducated, one reason that it’s struck roots among overseas students at minor colleges. But it also appeals to pseudo-intellectuals everywhere, since it evokes the strong streak of cowardice notable among those wielding academic authority nowadays. Any empty-headed student with a powerful voice can claim someone … Continue reading →

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An 80-year-old great-grandmother shot and killed an intruder in her home after he stabbed her husband and hit him with a crowbar. Barb Moles, a grandmother of eight and great-grandmother of three, had been at her home in Seattle with her husband John and their adult son when she heard an altercation at the front of the house. When she went into the kitchen to check the noise, she discovered her husband, John, lying in a pool of blood. He told her he had been stabbed and without a second’s thought, Mrs. Moles raced to her bedroom to retrieve a … Continue reading →

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Knee clicking could be a harmless sound or a sign of an impending knee condition. Knee problems, in general, can be quite debilitating and can grow with age. Our knees truly take a beating, as they not only help us move around but also bear our body weight, which can be quite a stress. There are many reasons for knee clicking and it’s important to pay attention to your knee clicking sounds in order to determine when it’s the time to seek medical attention. Here are some things to consider. For starters, is there pain associated with your knee clicking? … Continue reading →

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“Mitt in Talks for 3rd Party Bid” ran the Boston Herald’s headline this Sunday. “Jesus Christ,” I thought to myself, “what’s Bill Kristol up to now?” That’s what I like about Bill: He’s predictable. The problem, I guess, is that he’s predictably batshit crazy. If you see a headline that says “Top Conservative Calls for War with Russia,” you can be sure it’s Bill. “Republican Journalist Defends NSA”? That’s Bill, too. “Fall of Saddam Caused ‘Very Healthy’ Chain Reaction”? Yep, Bill. Sure enough, Mitt’s in talks with none other than Bill—and literally no one other than Bill. It was just … Continue reading →

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The Clinton Foundation’s finances are so messy that the nation’s most influential charity watchdog put it on its “watch list” of problematic nonprofits last month. The Clinton family’s mega-charity took in more than $140 million in grants and pledges in 2013 but spent just $9 million on direct aid. The group spent the bulk of its windfall on administration, travel, and salaries and bonuses, with the fattest payouts going to family friends. “It seems like the Clinton Foundation operates as a slush fund for the Clintons,” said Bill Allison, a senior fellow at the Sunlight Foundation, a government watchdog group where … Continue reading →

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The southeastern United States has been hit by a series of strange unexplained quakes – most recently, the 2011 magnitude-5.8 earthquake near Mineral, Virginia that shook the nation’s capital. Researchers have been baffled, believing the areas should be relatively quiet in terms of seismic activity as it is located in the interior of the North American Plate, far away from plate boundaries where earthquakes usually occur. Now, they believe the quakes could be caused by pieces of the Earth’s mantle breaking off and sinking into the planet. A new study found pieces of the mantle under this region have been periodically … Continue reading →

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Failing to get enough sleep can leave a person ‘functionally drunk’, in a matter of days, experts today warned. They note sleep is much more important than many people realise. Even if a person achieves six hours a night, they are building up a sleep debt, Olivia Walch from the University of Michigan said. Her warnings come as a new study, co-authored by Ms. Walch, reveal the sleep patterns of people across the world. The findings show middle-aged men are the most likely to be sleep deprived, often failing to get the recommended seven to eight hours shut eye. Researchers … Continue reading →

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