All Eyes on Chicago’s Teachers
By Shamus Cooke | Global Research It’s impossible to exaggerate the national importance of the teachers’ struggle in Chicago. If the Chicago teachers’ union — 26,000 members strong — goes on strike, many critical yet ignored political issues will go into the national spotlight, exposing nastiness that many politicians and labor leaders would like ignored until [...]
Read More →Iran warns of oil price hike
IANS | NewKerala The current embargo on Iranian oil and political pressure on the Islamic Republic will result in higher oil prices on international markets, Petroleum Minister Rostam Qasemi said. “If (oil) producing countries are confronted with difficulties and restrictions, the market will react to the situation accordingly, which will cause an increase in prices,” [...]
Read More →Harvard creates cyborg flesh that’s half man, half machine
By Sebastian Anthony | ExtremeTech Bioengineers at Harvard University have created the first examples of cyborg tissue: Neurons, heart cells, muscle, and blood vessels that are interwoven by nanowires and transistors. These cyborg tissues are half living cells, half electronics. As far as the cells are concerned, they’re just normal cells that behave normally — [...]
Read More →Government Threatens Jail Time for Growing Produce in Front-Yard Garden
By Elizabeth Renter | Natural Society You own your home and the lot that it sits on. So, if you want to plant tomatoes instead of bushes, you should be entitled to that, right? While this may seem like a common sense line of reasoning, many cities and towns across our nation think otherwise. They don’t [...]
Read More →Mining asteroids for precious minerals and volatiles
By NIX | The Watchers As speculations claim essential resources for modern industry will extinct in upcoming years, ideas of mining the asteroids to extract minerals and bring them to Earth promise to cope with such inevitable problem. Scientists claim that minerals and volatiles including iron, nickel, lead, titanium, gold, platinum and several others could be mined from asteroids and [...]
Read More →Iran close to building A-bomb like never before – Really?
By Sergei Vasilenko | Pravda.ru On August 30, UN inspectors reported that Iran had taken new efforts to produce enriched uranium. Iran doubled the number of centrifuges to enrich uranium at Ford underground complex, officials said. In the quarterly report, the IAEA said that Iran had 2,140 centrifuges, and since 2010 Iran had produced nearly 190 [...]
Read More →Armenia ready for war with Azerbaijan after killer pardon
PressTV Armenia has expressed readiness for a war with its arch-foe, the Republic of Azerbaijan, after Baku pardoned and promoted an Azerbaijani officer who axed an Armenian soldier to death. “We don’t want a war, but if we have to, we will fight and win. We are not afraid of killers, even if they enjoy [...]
Read More →Kurdish Rebels Clash with Turkish Forces, Thirty Killed
Al Manar Kurdish rebels wielding rocket launchers and machine-guns attacked a security base in southeast Turkey, triggering a firefight that left 30 people dead, local officials said Monday. Ten soldiers were killed and seven wounded in the attack in the province of Sirnak, the local government said, while other sources said about 20 members of [...]
Read More →5,000 killed in Syria in ‘bloodiest ever month’ August, say activists
ANI Nearly 5,000 people have been killed in Syria’s escalating civil war in the month of August, activists groups have claimed. This is the highest figure ever reported in over 17 months of fighting against the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad. “The past month witnessed large massacres and the regime was conducting wide operations to [...]
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