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Quick Thoughts on Carbon Sequestration
How do we mitigate climate change? A fashionable suggestion is technologically intensive carbon sequestration. That, however, is an excessively expensive and probably technically impossible method of capturing significant amounts of carbon. Another popular suggestion for sequestering carbon is planting trees. A more traditional method — building up the soil — which is better for the […]
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The Empire’s illegal wars
When the United States and its NATO allies started the war on Kosovo, Cuba immediately defined her position on the front page of the newspaper Granma, on March 26, 1999. This was done in a Declaration of her Ministry of Foreign Affairs under the title of “Cuba’s appeal to end NATO’s unjustified aggression against Yugoslavia.”
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Hands off Iran: Why Iranian Women Don’t Need Rescuing by the US
The Democrats and Republicans are united in the belief that Iran poses a risk to US interests in the Middle East and must therefore be reined in. Iran is too irrational to be trusted with nuclear weapons, cry the warmongers who only half a century ago dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Iran is […]