Is the Kochtopus Risk Real?

Where is Godzilla when you need him? A giant menacing shadowy figure of petrochemical poisons looms over America. It waves its tentacles and weaves it ways into every market, every sector, trying to subdue the environment and overpower resistance. Is it smog? Could it be…is it…The Kochtopus?! …the University of Massachusetts at Amherst’s Political Economy … Continue reading Is the Kochtopus Risk Real?

CIA Launches New Spy Satellites

The successful launch of a Delta IV Heavy configuration from America’s West Coast means the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) payload L-49 is on its way into orbit. Delta 352’s payload is officially classified; however it is widely believed to be a KH-11 “Improved Crystal” electro-optical reconnaissance satellite. The KH-11 first flew in the late 1970s, … Continue reading CIA Launches New Spy Satellites