Trento’s Take: Dire Consequences for Oceans

June 22nd, 2011 | Trento's Take | | One comment

Corporate exploitation of ignorance on climate change has made it nearly impossible for half the population in the United States to face the reality that man-made activity has made the earth dangerously warmer. Politicians, controlled by carbon polluting extractive industries, have successfully sold climate change as a lie cooked up by scheming liberals. Demonizing science combined with a media weakened to the point of complete ineffectiveness has allowed a set of curious alliances to threaten the future of life on Earth.

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Trento’s Take: The Other Other Iraq

June 15th, 2011 | Trento's Take | | 65 comments

The Kurds call themselves the other Iraq. They even have an advertising campaign:

Have you seen the Other Iraq?
It’s spectacular.
It’s peaceful.
It’s joyful.
Fewer than two hundred US troops are stationed here.
Arabs, Kurds and Westerners all vacation together.

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WikiLeaks.org: New Media or Source?

July 28th, 2010 | Trento's Take | | Leave a comment
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Since at least last May, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been chastising publicly our “frienemies” in Pakistan for protecting Al Qaeda  leadership in their country and aiding and abetting Taliban operations in Pakistan and Afghanistan that are killing Americans and allied forces. Continue reading WikiLeaks.org: New Media or Source?

Trento’s Take: Russian spy ring not up to KGB standards

July 8th, 2010 | Trento's Take | | Leave a comment

The FBI investigation into a group of Russian spies was rushed to conclusion because these illegals seemed to have been tipped off that they were in trouble. The fact that the Russians knew that their spy ring had been discovered is worrying because it may mean that the Bureau or another American intelligence agency has been penetrated by SVR – the follow-on agency to the KGB. It would not be the first time.

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