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New Dr. Strangeloves and the Prospect of Geo-Engineered Climate "Adaptation"

Sanjay Khanna | Posted 11.08.2009 | Green

Read More: United Nations Global Compact, Global Energy Assessment Council, Copenhagen 2009, Africa, President Emanuel Mori, 350.Org, Bill Mckibben, Grace Akumu, Royal Dutch Shell, Tallberg Forum, Gro Harlem Brundtland, Royal Swedish Academy of Science, Ged Davis, Dr. Strangelove, Scenario Planning, Our Common Future, Geoengineering, Climate Change, Mario Tokoro, Tallberg Foundation, Kenya, Chief Oren Lyons, Climate Mitigation, Climate Adaptation, Green News
Sanjay Khanna

This year's Tallberg Forum asked: "How on earth can we live together, within the planetary boundaries?" Some scientists and energy policymakers posed a different question that made my hairs stand on end.

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Hollywood and Hiroshima: When the White House Censored the First Nuclear Film

Greg Mitchell | Posted 09.10.2009 | Media

Read More: Hiroshima, Nuclear, Hollywood, A-Bomb, Harry Truman, Dr. Strangelove, Rhapsody in August, Black Rain, The War Game, The Beginning of the End, Hiroshima Mon Amour, Media News
Greg Mitchell

Creative artists of every variety have made incisive, satiric or powerful statements about nuclear threat. What they share, with rare exceptions, is an avoidance of the specific subject of Hiroshima.

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Pro-Nuclear Pundits Debunked

Frida Berrigan | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Richard Perle, Daily Show, Nuclear Weapons, Jon Stewart, Frank Gaffney, John Bolton, Dr. Strangelove, Politics News
Frida Berrigan

Obama's efforts to eliminate nuclear weapons have also drawn harsh criticism from a chorus of nuclear war theorists intent on scaring the public into opposing the president's disarmament agenda.

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The CIA's Role in Iranian Regime Change

Keith Thomson | Posted 07.25.2009 | World

Read More: Nsa, Holocaust, Department of Defense, Doubleday, Mossad, Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Intelligence Community, Barack Obama, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Dr. Strangelove, Iraq War, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Internet, Cia, Regime Change, Institute of World Politics, Tehran, Israel, Leon Panetta, Espionage, World News
Keith Thomson

I would guess that in the past year, there were more regime-change-in-Iran plots floated by members of the intelligence community than there are Iranians.

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What One Learns from Politicos Who Watch Movies...

Steve Clemons | Posted 03.18.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: The Week, Ed Markey, Andrea Mitchell, Andrew Sullivan, Seven Days in May, Team America World Police, Jane Harman, Christopher Dodd, Being There, Citizen Kane, Chris Matthews, Movies, Dr. Strangelove, The Candidate, Peter Sellars, Susan Collins, John Sununu, Margaret Carlson, A Man for All Seasons, George Vradenburg, Phillips Collection, Thelma and Louise, Alan Greenspan, Bob Schieffer, Entertainment News
Steve Clemons

Lindsey Graham hosted a movie night a couple of years ago and his selection was Seven Days in May. Other hosts were Jane Harman and Susan Collins who picked Thelma and Louise.

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Best Movies By Farr: When Oscar Screws Up

John Farr | Posted 03.18.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Edward G. Robinson, The English Patient, The Exorcist, Tom Hanks, History of the Academy Awards, Julie Andrews, Milk, Fred MacMurray, John Wayne, The Wrestler Stanley Kubrick, As Good as It Gets, Capote, The Great Ziegfeld, Traffic, L.A. Confidential, Driving Miss Daisy, Dr. Strangelove, Fargo, High Noon, Million Dollar Baby, Joan Allen, My Left Foot, Around the World in Eighty Days, Slumdog Millionaire, The Academy Awards, The Sting, Rocky Balboa, Letters From Iwo Jima, Double Indemnity, Shirley MacLaine, Rex Harrison, Little Miss Sunshine, Ed Harris, Life Is Beautiful, Peter Finch, Shakespeare in Love, Charles Chaplin, James Dean, Giant, Crash, My Man Godfrey, Barbara Stanwyck, The Contender, Network, Imelda Staunton, Academy Awards, Titanic, Louis B. Mayer; Daryl Zanuck; Samuel L Goldwyn, Hotel Rwanda, The Apartment, The Departed, Peter Sellers, Pulp Fiction, Burt Lancaster, Gladiator, Vera Drake, Sean Penn, Modern Times, Elizabeth Taylor, Chicago, Field of Dreams, Billy Wilder, Pollock, Al Jolson, Forrest Gump, William Powell, John Travolta, Carole Lombard, Singin' in the Rain, Taxi Driver, Cecil B. DeMille, My Fair Lady, Jack Lemmon, The Searchers, The Hours, Robert De Niro, Entertainment News
John Farr

2005 -- for Best Picture, give me Capote over Crash any ol' time. Another uninspiring year, I thought.

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Exit Stage Right: Cheney Wheels Off to Thunderous Applause

Randall Amster | Posted 03.02.2009 | Comedy

Read More: James Bond, Bob Roberts, It's a Wonderful Life, Obama Inauguration, Cheney, Legacy, Batman, Vice President Cheney, Dick Cheney, Dr. Strangelove, Comedy News
Randall Amster

Yes folks, that was Dick Cheney, born-again ADA activist and differently-abled former dictator, heading off to an (un)disclosed location for the final time.

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Con Games: Calling Dr. Strangelove

Michael Conniff | Posted 01.02.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Wmd, Kubrick, Missile Defense, Star Wars, Movies, Dr. Strangelove, Entertainment News
Michael Conniff

Kids of my generation spent lifetimes in ridiculous bomb shelters wondering if the lead in a pencil could protect us from imminent destruction.

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Wasteful Weapons and the Politicians Who Love Them

Robert Scheer | Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Robert Scheer, B-2, Dr. Strangelove, Curtis LeMay, Tanker, Stealth, Pornography of Power, Defense Budget, Midair Refueling, John McCain, Politics News
Robert Scheer

The DNC's attack on McCain speaks volumes to the bipartisan gut-checking in favor of military waste that has led us to squander trillions of taxpayer dollars since 9/11.

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