For the first time since 1968, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has granted a permit to build a new kind of nuclear reactor, a sign that regulators are ready to be more imaginative in their deliberations as the need to move away from fossil fuels becomes more urgent.
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WE’VE ALREADY GOT A DICTATOR-IN-CHIEF: HOW ABSOLUTE POWER CORRUPTED THE PRESIDENT
Power-hungry, lawless and steadfast in its pursuit of authoritarian powers, the government does not voluntarily relinquish those powers once it acquires, uses and inevitably abuses them.
IRANIAN HACKERS ATTACK U.S. WATER AND SEWER SYSTEMS
The CyberAv3ngers, a group known to be affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, has been running cyberattacks on digital devices called programmable logic controllers that are common in U.S. municipal water and sewage processing systems as well as in equipment in energy, healthcare, and food and beverage manufacture, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has confirmed.
THE WHITEHOUSE GOES ROGUE: SECRET SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM BREAKS ALL THE LAWS
The government wants us to believe that we have nothing to fear from its mass spying programs as long as we’ve done nothing wrong.
THE U.S., NOT ISRAEL, IS THE MAIN COMBATANT IN THE WAR AGAINST HAMAS
In terms of costs and munitions, Washington, not Israel, is the main combatant against Gaza. On December 1 The Wall Street Journal reported that Washington has sent Israel 15,000 bombs and 57,000 artillery shells.
THE REAL PROBLEM WITH OUR FOREIGN POLICY…
Over the weekend Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin explained to the American people what’s really wrong with U.S. foreign policy. Some might find his conclusions surprising.
THE FOOLS ON CAPITOL HILL
Americans remain largely ignorant about the extent to which foreign influence pervades the United States government, and I am not referring to the fraudulent claims made by Hillary Clinton that Russia has interfered materially in U.S. elections.
WHAT IF THE CONSTITUTION NO LONGER APPLIED? FREEDOM’S GREATEST HOUR OF DANGER IS NOW
We are approaching critical mass, the point at which all hell breaks loose. The government is pushing us ever closer to a constitutional crisis.
WE THE EXPLOITED: THE U.S. GOVERNMENT BUYS AND SELLS ITS CITIZENS FOR PROFIT AND POWER
Americans have become easy prey for hackers, scammers, snitches, spies, and con artists.
THE ISRAEL EXCEPTION TO FREE SPEECH
Last Tuesday there took place a disgraceful display of visceral malignancy in the United States House of Representatives Chamber in the south wing of the Capitol building.