“Less Lethal” Weapons
After viewing the likely-to-be-censored Al Jazeera documentary “Bahrain: Screaming in the Dark,” it’s particularly creepy to read this August...
Monthly Archives: August 2011
Al Jazeera Cancels Re-Airing of Bahrain Documentary
Al Jazeera has cancelled plans to re-run its 50-minute documentary “Bahrain: Shouting in the Dark,” under pressure from Bahraini...
The .45 Liberator Replica: A Pricey Piece of Budget History
In the 1940s, the United States military developed an ultra-cheap, ultra-simple single-shot .45 handgun stamped out of sheet metal....
Brazil Building Nuclear Subs to Defend Oil Reserves
Here’s a turn of South American politics that seems like reality straight-up shoplifting from a cyberpunk novel….or one of...
German Teen Mag’s Victim-Blaming Date-Rape AIDS Panic Photostory Ist Nicht Ganz Toll
CAUTION: The following references to some seriously hateful victim-blaming in a fictional case of date rape may prove triggering...
Radiation Soars at Fukushima — to 10 Sieverts Per Hour
NHK English, and Al Jazeera (but, weirdly, not yet The Japan Times) are reporting that the damaged Fukushima...