Jacqueline Brook

Climate change: an opportunity by our country and military to expand influence

I think that politicians who pretend to have a plan for a cleaner, greener planet, while simultaneously shoveling money at our agency of death and destruction, the Pentagon (which failed its first-ever audit last year, miserably) are selling us a monstrous lie.

The Center for Climate and Security has published a paper, “A Responsibility to Prepare,” in which they talk about the eagerness of many countries for a melted Arctic region.

According to the report, “Arctic ice is receding, opening previously inaccessible natural resources, shipping lanes, and tourism opportunities, with many countries eager to compete for claims and influence.”

You can read about how climate change is viewed as an opportunity by our country and military to expand influence in “key geostrategic environments” and for “military capacity building programs.”...

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Swimming in our own refuse. Why?

After just walking a very short stretch of road on this Earth Day and nearly filling a 39-gallon trash bag with mostly alcohol containers, I would like to see people who drink and drive and who trash our roadsides sentenced to community service, cleaning up miles of roadway of...

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From conspiracy to reality: When are we going to talk about this?

What's up with Harvard's David Keith? He's been exploring the idea of taking “chemtrails” from the realm of conspiracy theory to cloudy reality, using aircraft to pump sulfates into the upper atmosphere (solar radiation management) - effectively shutting off all our solar panels. This, in order to fight “global...

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We’re close to a hot war in Russia

I will be voting for Jill Stein on election day. I hope and pray that “the goddess of war,” Hillary Clinton, is not elected president, especially after reading Dr. Gilbert Doctorow's recent long and comprehensive article on just how close we are to a hot war with Russia. (Doctorow is the nonprofit European coordinator of American Committee for East-West Accord.) I feel that anti-Russian propaganda has reached a fever pitch in this country, and I think this is so important.

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Embracing flu season

I'm under no illusion that doctors know everything. My mom died in 1986 at 66, largely as the result of an overdose of a drug administered in an emergency room. And my dad - a doctor - died in 1995 after being misdiagnosed for three weeks at Brigham and Women's Hospital by colleagues who were really looking out for him. So I love to read anything that questions Western medicine's typical response to the world. I remember being taken to...

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