Global Breaking News on GMOs and Pesticides 6 September 2018

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6 September 2018 — Sustainable Pulse

Editors’ picks

Bayer Slashes Earnings Forecast over Rise in Roundup Cancer Cases

Bayer has slashed its earnings forecast Wednesday due to, amongst other things, a growing global legal battle surrounding the carcinogenic weedkiller Roundup. The weaker earnings forecast adds to a number of challenges facing the German drugmaker as it braces for years of legal wrangling over the cancer risks of glyphosate-based weedkillers. Bayer said the number […] Continue reading →

Empire Journalism: Venezuela, the US and John McCain

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6 September 2018 — Media Lens

The US political commentator Michael Parenti once observed that:

‘Bias in favor of the orthodox is frequently mistaken for “objectivity”. Departures from this ideological orthodoxy are themselves dismissed as ideological.’

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BREAKING NEWS— British prosecutors siccing media dogs in support of Idlib intervention

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5 September 2018 — Greanville Post

OPINION

So now the Brits are saying, right on the eve of the Idlib battle—how convenient!—that they have their suspects in the Skripal affair. And they are two Russians. Yawn. What else could it be? Does anyone have any problem with that?

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The Strange Timestamp In The New Novichok ‘Evidence’ – UPDATED

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5 September 2018 — Moon of Alabama

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Today, in a politically convenient moment, the British government released new information about the poisoning of the British spy Sergej Skripal, his daughter, and three other persons. It claims to have identified two men with Russian passports who arrived in London from Moscow on March 2, went to Salisbury on March 3 on a ‘reconnaissance’ trip, came back to Salisbury on March 4 to put Novichok poison on the doorknob of Skripal’s home and flew back from London to Moscow on the same day. The names of the men were given as Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov which are Russian language equivalents of Joe Smith and Sam Jones. These names are likely false.

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