Two important articles on Afghanistan and the Opium Wars

(both from www.globalresearch.ca – an excellent source of otherwise hard to get research) The Opium Wars in Afghanistan Can Anyone Pacify the World’s Number One Narco-State? by Alfred W. McCoy In ways that have escaped most observers, the Obama administration is now trapped in an endless cycle of drugs and death in Afghanistan from which [...]

Cool Thinking and Common Sense on Climate Change

Climate change is an area of conflicting and confusing announcements from scientific experts as well as obviously self-serving and cowardly pronouncements from politicians and their multinational corporate sponsors/owners. My vote for the most cautiously optimistic overview of issues and strategic solutions is Lester R. Brown’s work, in his continuously updated books – the latest of [...]

What is it like to have a face-to-face encounter with an alien?

In a recent article in the Australian Nexus New Times magazine (March-April 2010), Linda Moulton Howe, an Italian journalist who has written a couple of books on her interviews with a variety of ET contactees, describes a hitherto unpublished encounter story related to her by a retired member of the AFOSI (US Air Force Office [...]

Three excellent and important 5 minute videos

Astounding images of apparently empty space filled with thousands of galaxies billions of light-years away. A four-minute 3-D movie released by NASA,  of images from the far edges of the universe.  It took 10 days of exposure for the images to appear on the photographic plate – photons that had travelling for 13 billion years.  [...]

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