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Wikieaks founder Julian Assange. Image by New Media Days via Flickr

"Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold." ~Leo Tolstoy

The scandal caused by the release of diplomatic cables by the website Wikileaks has revealed the lengths that supposedly democratic countries will go to conceal information. While the leaks themselves are essentially honest opinions from diplomatic circles (and little more) they do reveal the United States government machine as one reliant on the control of information. The fact that a civilian website could be targeted by the Obama regime as well as the Republican opposition suggests their fear of...

After three years working on a new television series for the Discovery Channel, Stephen Hawking concludes that aliens are "almost certain to exist" and could even be dangerous.

Hawking says that it is rational to assume that intelligent life exists somewhere in the universe, and mathematically unlikely that life is unique to the Earth, given the existence of a hundred billion galaxies, each of them containing hundreds of millions of stars.

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A Libyan writer and political commentator arrested last week and accused of a driving offence appears to have been targeted for calling for peaceful protests in the country, Amnesty International has said.

Jamal al-Hajji, a former prisoner of conscience who has dual Libyan and Danish nationality, was detained on 1 February in Tripoli by plain clothes security officers. They accused him of hitting a man with his car, which he denies.

Jamal al-Hajji’s arrest came shortly after he made a call on the internet for demonstrations to be held in support of greater freedoms in Libya, in the manner of recent mass protests in Tunisia, Egypt and other...

Would Thoreau be turning in his grave? Image via Wikipedia

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth. ~Henry David Thoreau

 

Most of you would have heard all the arguments for protecting the environment from global warming through to protection of resources such as clean water. While specific groups such as 'green' political parties work towards saving the environment it must also be asked who else (apart from these specific interest groups) cares about it. It could be argued that personalities such as Al Gore (ex-vice president and creator of 'An Inconvenient Truth') merely use the environment to keep their public profile. Other groups like green movements...