Capitalism
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A massive win for the bees
The EU voted for a near-complete ban on three neonics — pesticides that pose a deadly risk to bees and other pollinators. And it’s your actions and the work of our partners across Europe that made this happen. Continue reading
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‘Poison Papers’: US and Canadian Regulators Colluded with Manufacturers of Highly Toxic Substances
3 May 2018 — TRNN Dr. Jonathan Latham explains how the EPA and Canada’s Health Protection Branch concealed fraudulent tests of dangerous pesticides Continue reading
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What the FDA isn’t telling you about weedkiller in your food
3 May 2018 — Organic Consumers Association ESSAY OF THE WEEK Busted. For two years, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has been testing your food for glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup weedkiller. According to internal FDA emails, test results show that hundreds of commonly consumed foods contain glyphosate. Yet so far, none of that information has… Continue reading
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Organic Bytes: What will it take to get this chemical banned?
26 April 2018 — Organic Consumers Association [First, a whinge about the the UK environmental movement: It sucks! Organisations like Friends of the Earth (FOE) and Greenpeace with millions in resources can’t even manage a weekly newsletter like this one from OCA, a US-based organisation or another I carry here, Sustainable Pulse. Greenpeace do have… Continue reading
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Global Breaking News on GMOs and Pesticides 25 April 2018
25 April 2018 — Sustainable Pulse Editors’ picks UCSF Places Secret Agrichemical Industry Documents including Monsanto Papers Online The University of California, San Francisco Industry Documents Library placed online several collections of agrichemical industry documents on Thursday, including some acquired and donated by U.S. Right to Know, a consumer and public health watchdog group. The… Continue reading
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Splits in the Ruling Elite Over Trump — Full Interview
We’re continuing our series of conversations about Trump, the Trump administration, politics in the United States, and the overall dysfunctionality of politics globally. But now, a little update or blow-by-blow on the latest soap opera in Washington, D.C. And joining us again is Dr. Gerald Horne. Continue reading
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Trump, Corruption and the Crisis of the Global Elites
The first episode of “Unfit to Rule” examines the quagmire of corruption and political chaos affecting many governments around the world – most prominent the Mueller investigation of Trump; with Gerald Horne and host Paul Jay Continue reading
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Disgusting Conflict of Interest: Theresa May’s Husband’s Investment Firm Made a “Financial Killing” from the Bombing of Syria By Tom D. Rogers
Whilst it is pretty obvious that almost all married couples act as informal advisors to each other in some capacity, Tyrie’s admission that the Prime Minister’s husband has such a great influence over his wife’s decisions is made all the more worrying by the fact that Mr May – who is a Senior Executive at… Continue reading
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Disgusting Conflict of Interest: Theresa May’s Husband’s Investment Firm Made a “Financial Killing” from the Bombing of Syria By Tom D. Rogers
Whilst it is pretty obvious that almost all married couples act as informal advisors to each other in some capacity, Tyrie’s admission that the Prime Minister’s husband has such a great influence over his wife’s decisions is made all the more worrying by the fact that Mr May – who is a Senior Executive at… Continue reading
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Frack Off April Newsletter: Fracking Industry Counts Cost Of More Delays
Diary of events covering anti-fracking actions across the UK. Excellent Resource. Continue reading
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Shell knew about climate threat decades ago by Jessica Corbett
Royal Dutch Shell’s scientists warned the oil giant about the threat that fossil fuel emissions pose to the planet as early as the 1980s, according to a trove of documents obtained by a Dutch journalist and published Thursday at Climate Files. Continue reading
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Planning to join Elon Musk on Mars? Then pay no attention to this
5 April 2018 – Organic Consumers Association [Although OCA is a US-based organisation, I only wish we had something similar here, in the UK. Friends of the Earth? I don’t think so. WB] ESSAY OF THE WEEK Fish Facts Think “factory farm” and most of us envision millions of chickens and pigs crammed into dismally… Continue reading
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The great British drug rip-off By Morten Thaysen
While multinational drug companies have turned themselves into one of the most profitable industries in the world, they have peddled the lie that they’re charging eye-watering prices for their life-saving products because it costs a fortune to research and develop them. What they didn’t tell us is that much of that research is publicly funded… Continue reading
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Cambridge Analytica holds a mirror up to the mainstream media
Facebook is, in reality, a giant scheme for generating data on individuals to be sold onto advertisers and other companies. This is their entire business model – simply a far more efficient way of doing what PR consultants have been doing for decades. Continue reading
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Facebook Scandal Blows Away ‘Russiagate’ By Finian Cunningham
Now, at last, a real “election influence” scandal – and, laughably, it’s got nothing to do with Russia. The protagonists are none other than the “all-American” US social media giant Facebook and a British data consultancy firm with the academic-sounding name Cambridge Analytica. Continue reading
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Global Breaking News on GMOs and Pesticides 22 March 2018
22 March 2018 — Sustainable Pulse Editors’ picks European Commission Clears Bayer’s Acquisition of Monsanto, Subject to Conditions The European Commission has approved under the EU Merger Regulation the acquisition of Monsanto by Bayer. The merger is conditional on the divestiture of an extensive remedy package, which addresses the parties’ overlaps in seeds, pesticides and… Continue reading
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The World’s Darkest Hour: The British Empire As Criminal Enterprise by Romi Mahajan
No matter the facts, “Churchillian” is a metonym for Statesmanship, Churchill the cynosure of all eyes seeking freedom’s light. Bookstores have entire sections devoted to him while the colonies that suffered under the enormous weight of his hatred might merit a book or two. Quotes from him adorn presentation materials from NGOs and Governments, even… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 