July 2020
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Pesticides speed the spread of deadly parasites
Even low concentrations of pesticides can increase transmission and weaken efforts to control the second most common parasitic disease Continue reading
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An Israeli charity group is uprooting Palestinians – not planting trees
The Jewish National Fund has won plaudits for its environmental work, but its agenda has been to evict on behalf of the state Continue reading
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Has the left been gulled into believing its small right to speech is already too much?
My post earlier this month on the so-called “cancel culture” letter proved to be the most polarising I have written – matched only by another recent post on the pulling down of a statue in the UK to a slave trader. The ferocity of the reactions to both, I believe, is related. It derives from… Continue reading
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Black Agenda Radio for Week of July 20, 2020
20 July 2020 — Black Agenda Report Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford The Historical Quest for a Black Nation / Move 9 are Free – Mumia is Next / Maroons As Movement Role Models The Historical Quest for a Black Nation Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford Thanks Continue reading
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Partisan Media Coverage of Epstein Masks His Links to Both Sides of the Political Establishment
A study conducted by MintPress’ Alan Macleod revealed that both MSNBC and Fox News intentionally slanted their coverage to highlight Epstein’s links to either Bill Clinton or Donald Trump. Continue reading
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Global Breaking News on GMOs and Pesticides 20 July 2020
20 July 2020 — Sustainable Pulse Editors’ picks Pesticides Increase Transmission of Debilitating Snail Fever Affecting Hundreds of Millions of People Widespread use of pesticides, including the world’s most used herbicide, glyphosate, can speed the transmission of the debilitating disease schistosomiasis (snail fever), while also upsetting the ecological balances in aquatic environments that prevent infections, Continue reading
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The Fed genie and the bankers’ cave
This article looks at two current economic phenomena, how retail sales always out-perform and how investment banks in the USA always make profit come rain or shine. Continue reading
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf: Mid-July, 2020
19 July 2020 — Climate & Capitalism Reading matters Six new books … Greta Thunberg’s story; Fighting corporate food systems; Revolutionaries on climate; Food and revolution; A case for meat; Our carbon world Ecosocialist Bookshelf is an occasional feature. We can’t review every book we receive, but we will list and link to any that Continue reading
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US attorney general explains the real reason Washington is hostile to China
In a major speech, US Attorney General William Barr dwelled at length on the threat Chinese-owned firms pose to corporate America’s domination of the global economy, but said little about Chinese policy on Xinjiang, Tibet, Hong Kong, and the South China Sea, the usual reasons Washington cites for its growing anti-Chinese animus. Continue reading
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Is lab-grown meat the future of food?
Documentary on ‘clean meat’ fails to question the technology’s rationale and blindly accepts dubious claims made by its promoters Continue reading
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White Helmets Implicated in Cash Embezzlement and Fraud Scandal
Any time you see the White Helmets in the news these days, it’s probably going to be for all the wrong reasons. This latest bombshell is no exception. Continue reading
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Liberal Zionism begins the journey towards a one-state solution
Peter Beinart, an influential liberal commentator on Israel and Zionism, poked a very large stick into a hornets’ nest this month by admitting he had finally abandoned his long-cherished commitment to a two-state solution. Continue reading
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COVID-19 – Remdesivir: License to Kill. Hydroxychloroquine: Prohibition to Cure
Remdesivir’s fight against Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) is somewhat symbolic of the fight of medical journals, of corrupt institutions against field medicine, of the many general practitioners who are at the bedside. Continue reading
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A Matter of Citizenship: Shamima Begum, Islamic State and Natural Justice
Rarely do terms such as “Islamic State” and “natural justice” keep company. Both seem alien, uncomfortable, fundamentally ill-suited. For one, Islamic State’s own approach to natural justice, archaic and stone-age obscurantist, has tended to be distinctly unnatural and particularly brutal. But it has also invited, in response to its particular brand of terrorism, a troubling… Continue reading
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What Lies Ahead
On July 6, 2020 I posted my extended view and analysis why the 3rd quarter US GDP would falter–and lead to a W-shape recovery, as it typical of all Great Recessions. The current recession’s scenario was compared with 1929-30 and 2008-09, and 8 reasons were given why the US current economic rebound (not recovery) would… Continue reading
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Lockdown Deaths, Not Covid Deaths
COVID-19 has been circulating for at least a year and yet there was no notable increase in unseasonable mortality anywhere until Lockdown regimes were imposed between late February and late March 2020. Let me repeat that: everywhere, the overall or “all cause” mortality data consistently tells the same story: there was no notable deviation from… Continue reading
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75th Anniversary of the Great Victory: Shared Responsibility to History and our Future
75 years have passed since the end of the Great Patriotic War. Several generations have grown up over the years. The political map of the planet has changed. The Soviet Union that claimed an epic, crushing victory over Nazism and saved the entire world is gone. Besides, the events of that war have long become a distant memory, even for its participants. So why does Russia celebrate the 9th of May as the biggest holiday?… Continue reading
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DesSmog UK: Appointing the experts
17 July 2020 — DesSmogUK Who would you call if you were to set up a group to maintain “animal welfare and environmental standards” in post-Brexit trade deals? Someone who knew about and enjoyed protecting environmental standards, perhaps? Maybe someone who knew about and liked animal welfare? Continue reading
The New Dark Age 