Saudi Arabia gave a Black Friday gift to the world oil market. The Saudis have persuaded their OPEC partners to sustain OPEC's current oil production rates (30 million barrels per day) rather than cutting production to pull oil prices out…
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On my way home from work, I heard this conversation on the BBC World Service with Kevin Bales, lead author of a report that finds 36 million human beings are slaves: [Bales]: Slavery today is what it's always been. It's…
...and your gasoline prices will still go up. A new study from researchers at the Stockholm Environment Institute (based in the U.S., not Sweden) says the U.S. State Department could be off by a factor of four in its estimate…
The Rapid City Journal reprints an article from the Exberliner about the awkward freedom-of-speech case of Yankton Sioux artist Robert Packard. We can't call it a First-Amendment case, because world-traveling Packard isn't in the U.S.; he's in Germany, where he's…
The Sun is our friend: vitamin D, solar power, and photosynthesis, the basis of life as we know it. But Black Hills science writer Stan Gibilisco points out that the Sun is dangerous. He's not talking about wrinkles; he's talking…
Let's go to Cuba! Brookings Pax Christi is hosting a potluck and program to support the "Caravan to Cuba" project. For 25 years, Pastors for Peace has been organizing relief trips to Cuba to protest the anti-Castro embargo the United…
Gordon Howie's guest writer Brad Ford continues to make no sense. In his latest failed attempt at coherence, Ford quotes columnist Robert Scheer, who calls Iraq "George W. Bush's horrifying legacy" and says "the Republican attempt to shift the blame…
Candidates Rick Weiland and Larry Pressler both think re-engaging militarily in Iraq is a bad idea. Journalist Todd Epp says our previous engagement wasn't terribly successful. The reasons for the Second Gulf War were fourfold: Get rid of weapons of…