Capitalism
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Mainstream Media Obscure Most Important Issues From Public Eyes By Shane Quinn
As the summer moves on, the world is literally burning under intense heat due to ever worsening climate change, mainly as a result of government impotence under corporate sway. Areas near Tokyo have just experienced a record temperature of 106 degrees Fahrenheit (41.1 Celsius), with beleaguered residents fleeing to avoid the sun. Across Japan, this… Continue reading
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Please Sign Now! Zero tolerance for plastic
Thanks to public outcry, the European Commission proposed a new law to reduce single-use plastics and stem the huge tide of plastic waste. [3] Unfortunately some EU countries are likely under pressure from the plastic industry to derail this hopeful proposal for our environment. [4] But we still have a chance to make the Commission’s… Continue reading
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The Wifi Alliance, Coming Soon to Your Neighborhood: 5G Wireless By Renee Parsons
The medical and scientific data is overwhelming and irrefutable as the wireless industry, the MSM and government agencies, frequently the last to acknowledge a pervasive health problem, continue to protect the industry from widespread public awareness of the insidious effects of the latest generation of digital by-products. Continue reading
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'Data Needs to Serve a Public Safety Purpose'
6 July 2018 — FAIR by Janine Jackson Janine Jackson interviewed Tracy Rosenberg about ICE’s corporate collaborators for the June 29, 2018, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. Continue reading
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Global Breaking News on GMOs and Pesticides 4 July 2018
4 July 2018 — Sustainable Pulse Editors’ picks Loophole Could Exempt Over 10,000 GMO Foods from GMO Labeling Law Loopholes proposed by the Trump administration could exempt over 10,000 – or one out of six – genetically modified foods from a new GMO disclosure law, according to an EWG analysis. The draft rule may exempt foods produced… Continue reading
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What the Monsanto Papers tell us about corporate science
The Monsanto Papers are a treasure trove of internal documents slowly released since March 2017 as part of a US lawsuit by cancer victims against Monsanto over its ubiquitous herbicide, glyphosate. They tell a lot about how Monsanto actively subverts science, both in the company’s practices and the way it abuses science’s moral authority to… Continue reading
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The Ministry of Cruelty
It’s a special vengeance that capital takes on those who only make counterrevolution halfway. And make no mistake, the policies and programs of the last ten years have been half-a-counterrevolution. Whether presented as austerity, or as special investment vehicles, or direct capital injections, or quantitative easing, behind all those masks stands the attack on labor,… Continue reading
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London Review of Books publishes scurrilous account of Grenfell Tower fire By Alice Summers
O’Hagan’s piece is characterised by vicious and dishonest misrepresentations, inaccuracies, the demonization of local activists, residents and firefighters, and hymns of praise to the local council. Continue reading
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Brexit crisis intensifies as “Remain” Tories reject bogus compromise on parliament having “meaningful vote” By Chris Marsden
May is beholden to her hard-Brexit wing, led by Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson , and Jacob-Rees Mogg. But even a small rebellion by Remain Tories would endanger her minority government reliant on the votes of 10 Democratic Unionist Party MPs. Therefore, the first day of voting on Tuesday concerning 15 amendments to the Withdrawal Bill… Continue reading
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Beekeepers at the Bayer AGM
With your help, we sponsored beekeepers’ attendance at the shareholder meeting and directly confronted Bayer about its bee-killing pesticides. The beekeepers joined a group of incredible SumOfUs volunteers, and together we made our protests heard, handed out leaflets and staged a mock-funeral for “the last bee”. Continue reading
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Global Breaking News on GMOs and Pesticides: Editors’ picks
23 May 2018 — Sustainable Pulse Monsanto in Epic Fail with Attempted Attack on Global Glyphosate Study The peer-reviewed accepted manuscripts from the pilot phase of the Global Glyphosate Study were revealed last Wednesday in a Press Conference at the European Parliament. The results of the short-term pilot study showed that glyphosate-based herbicides (GBHs) were… Continue reading
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Does Iron Fist Imperialism Benefit US Workers?
We speak to economist Gerald Epstein, who did the cost-benefit analysis of the US invasion of Iraq. He found that the US military adventure cost US workers approximately two trillion dollars Continue reading
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The Rich Have an Escape Plan – RAI with Rana Foroohar (5/6)
On Reality Asserts Itself, Ms. Foroohar says many wealthy people understand that the climate crisis, deep recession and war are real threats, but they believe “apres moi le deluge [after me comes the floods];” the Financial Times columnist and author of “Makers and Takers” says many of the rich have escape plans thinking “they can… Continue reading
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NHS data-sharing U-turn is welcome – but more to do to scrap the ‘hostile environment’By Peter Pannier
Recent attention to the Windrush scandal has focused attention on the many ways migrants are deterred from accessing healthcare. The government has this week announced it will be suspending “with immediate effect” the controversial memorandum of understanding (MOU) under which NHS Digital shared NHS patients’ details with the Home Office. Continue reading
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Global Glyphosate Study Pilot Phase Shows Adverse Health Effects at ‘Safe’ Doses
The results reveal that glyphosate based herbicides (GBHs) were able to alter certain important biological parameters, mainly relating to sexual development, genotoxicity and the alteration of the intestinal microbiome. Continue reading
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Toxic Truth: New Evidence for Banning Monsanto’s Roundup Weedkiller
As reported this week in the Guardian, new tests show that when Roundup’s key active ingredient, glyphosate, is combined with other chemicals to create the final product, the herbicide is more toxic to human cells than glyphosate alone. Continue reading
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Militarization, “War is Good for Business”
7 May 2018 — Global Research News Scheme to Let OPCW Name Perpetrators of Alleged Syria Chemical Attacks By Stephen Lendman, May 07, 2018 No evidence suggests Syrian use of CWs anytime during years of war. Plenty indicts US-supported terrorists, toxic agents supplied by Saudi Arabia and Turkey, perhaps by Washington and Israel as well – each… Continue reading
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China’s Determined March Towards An Ecological Civilization By Andre Vltchek
So, are we now dealing with the thoroughly hopeless scenario? Did the world go mad? Is it ready to get sacrificed for the profit of the very few? Are people simply going to stand passively, watching what is happening around them, and die, as their world goes literally up in flames? It appeared so, until… Continue reading
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Agrochemicals and Institutional Corruption: Pleading with the Slave Master Will Not Set You Free By Colin Todhunter
Environmental campaigner Dr Rosemary Mason has just written to President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker, Vice President of the European Commission Frans Timmermans and Health Commissioner Vytenis Andruikaitis. As set out below, she asks these top officials some very pertinent questions about the EU’s collusion with the agrochemical corporations. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 