The failure of a recent UN-brokered cease fire in Yemen is just the latest proof that unless the United States and the countries in the coalition get serious about how to deal with the situation in that country there will be no end to the hostilities ravaging it. Recent indiscriminate air attacks by Saudi Arabia…
Read moreHamilton hopes Verstappen will ‘learn’ from immature mistakes
Lewis Hamilton was left unimpressed by Max Verstappen’s ill-fated attempt to force the issue against him in Sunday’s Bahrain Grand Prix. Verstappen rocketed off the grid with the bit between his teeth following his low qualifying position. A blistering first lap brought the Dutchman right on the heels of Hamilton, but in an attempt to…
Read moreLowe backs stewards over ‘consistent, robust’ penalties
Williams F1 technical chief Paddy Lowe has come out in support of the Australian Grand Prix race stewards over their decision to hand home favourite Daniel Ricciardo a costly grid penalty. Ricciardo had to start from eighth place on the grid for last week’s race, after race stewards demoted him three spots. He had been…
Read moreNatural Systems and an Agricultural Philosophy in Punjab
The nine films featured in the ‘9×9 Film Festival’—created by The Source Project and presented here on Common Dreams in partnership with /The Rules project—have been made for one reason: to help people understand the reality of what’s really happening to the world’s food and farming systems, and why. As the likes of the World…
Read moreWilliams qualifying performance down to circuit, not car – Lowe
Paddy Lowe says Williams’ performance in qualifying in Baku was enhanced more by the track’s characteristics rather than by any significant improvement of its car. Click Here: liverpool mens jersey Lance Stroll and Sergey Sirotkin easily made the Q2 cut on Saturday, a first this year for the Russian, and ultimately concluded the day just…
Read moreSteiner: ‘F1 only creating problems with knee-jerk reactions’
Haas team boss Guenther Steiner believes Formula 1 is creating more problems than benefits for itself when it fails to take the time to properly consider changes. In Melbourne, the opening round of the world championship underlined once again the issue of overtaking in F1, with only five passes recorded at the Australian event. As…
Read moreStupidity and Intelligence: Science, GMOs and Our Food
“Science” is derived from the scire – “to know”. Each of us should know what we are eating, how it was produced, what impact it has on our health. “Agroecology, not the mechanistic and blind paradigm of industrial agriculture, is the truly scientific approach to food production.” The knowledge we need for growing food is…
Read more"People and Planet First": On the Moral Authority of Climate Justice and a New Economy
Naomi delivered the following remarks at a press conference introducing “People and Planet First: the Imperative to Change Course,” a high-level meeting being held at the Vatican this week to explore Laudato Si’, Pope Francis’ recently-released encyclical letter on ecology. The gathering will take place on July 2-3, and is being convened by the Pontifical Council for Justice and…
Read moreF1 raises fuel limit for 2019 to allow ‘full power at all times’
Formula 1’s Strategy Group and the F1 Commission have agreed on a series of revisions of the sport’s technical regulations for 2019. The most notable change for next season is an increase in race fuel allowance from 2015 to 110kg that will permit drivers to exploit the full power of their engines at all times,…
Read moreHamilton happy to ‘wipe the smile off’ Vettel’s face!
Lewis Hamilton admitted that he’d been holding back his best until the very last lap of qualifying for the Australian Grand Prix. The Mercedes driver set a new track record time of 1:21.164s in his final outing in Q3, over six tenths faster than Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel. The size of his advantage over the rest…
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