Category Archives: Fire This Time
New for Christmas: Pocket-Sized Killer Drones
The micro-suicide drone, just in time for Christmas Gwynne Dyer — Dec 20 2022 Some lucky boys and girls are going to find micro-suicide drones in their stockings this Christmas! Get your orders in now! I was idly scanning the website of the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, as one does, and I came across a story … Continue reading New for Christmas: Pocket-Sized Killer Drones
Global Warming? Coal Usage Sets New Record Anyway
AP News: Report: World’s coal use creeps to new high in 2022 BY FRANK JORDANS December 16, 2022 BERLIN (AP) — Coal use across the world is set to reach a new record this year amid persistently high demand for the heavily polluting fossil fuel, the International Energy Agency said Friday. The Paris-based agency said … Continue reading Global Warming? Coal Usage Sets New Record Anyway
Ukraine: Don’t Count on a “Winter Lull” in the Fighting
A Winter Hibernation in Ukraine’s War? Gwynne Dyer, Independent Columnist Bangkok Post — December 6, 2022 When the two most senior military and intelligence officials in Washington make the same obvious error in public three times in three weeks, you have to wonder what they are really up to. Can it just be simple ignorance, … Continue reading Ukraine: Don’t Count on a “Winter Lull” in the Fighting
Quote of the Week: A Nationwide Warning from North Carolina
In the recent midterm elections, the North Carolina vote suppression party fell only one seat short of reclaiming the veto-proof majority, which they had deployed like a sledgehammer on human rights until governor Roy Cooper’s political skills broke through it. Now, as he explains here, they are looking to the rightwing bloc on the U. … Continue reading Quote of the Week: A Nationwide Warning from North Carolina