Sales of George Orwell's satirical novel, '1984' increased in response to the calumny and surreal declarations of the current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, USA. This incumbent's rise confirms that US society is in the midst of a major ideological readjustment due to the deteriorating state of the standard of living, the explosive growth of income inequality, and the many other economic and social ills facing the country during the Anthropocene. Obama's er

Windscale, renamed Sellafield, UK; Three Mile Island, USA; Chernobyl, Russia and Chernobyl, these accidents reinforce the dangers of nuclear reactors. French nuclear companies maintain 96% 0f the uranium used in nuclear power stations can be upgraded. Then what are we leaving for our children? A meeting in Caen, France in April 2020 concerning nuclear waste which will reconvene in September will determine technical, economic, political, societal factors along with the ethics

The Rus, dominated for 250 years by the Tartar invasion fought all invaders to set up a country in the vast Russian steppes ill defined by defensible rivers or mountains. Ivan the Terrible established authoritarian rule when it was vital for the very survival of the Russian state. In 1839, French nobleman Marquis de Custine described Russia: the political state of Russia is a country in which the government says what it pleases, because it alone has the right to speak...André