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A Short History of Glyphosate
6 September 2017 — Sustainable Pulse A Short History of Glyphosate The Detox Project and Sustainable Pulse has created and published Wednesday the first ‘Short History of Glyphosate’, which identifies some important dates during the scandalous history of the World’s most used herbicide. 1961: Glyphosate was patented in the U.S. as a Descaling and Chelating… Continue reading
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The BBC’s Climate Denialism: Coverage Of Hurricane Harvey And The South Asian Floods
Hurricane Harvey has provided a genuinely terrifying glimpse of a global Ballardesque dystopia that may actually be humanity’s fate. And yet, even now, corporate media are suppressing the truth. Continue reading
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Video: Did Monsanto Write Seed Policy in Malawi?
Tim Wise from the Small Planet Institute explains how a new seed policy in the southern African country of Malawi threatens farmers’ rights to save, exchange, and sell their seeds, and how a former Monsanto official turned out to be one of the policy’s co-authors Continue reading
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China and Russia, Beijing’s “Belt and Road” Initiative, Towards an Economy of Peace? By Peter Koenig
1 September 2017 — Global Research Why is Peace not breaking out, when the vast majority of the world’s populace does not want war? Why is the world one huge fireball of hostilities, conflicts, threats of economic sanctions, propaganda of lies and mind manipulations, fearmongering – killing – massive killing – 12-15 million people killed since… Continue reading
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Give Push Doctor the Shove!
A new private health company called Push Doctor wants to profit by undermining the NHS. They’re on an aggressive expansion drive, pumping out adverts to lure people away from their NHS doctor. Yet they’ve just been found to be “unsafe” and “ineffective” by the official health watchdog. [1]Together we can stop their business taking root. Continue reading
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More American Troops to Afghanistan, To Keep the Chinese Out? Lithium and the Battle for Afghanistan’s Mineral Riches By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
The implication of Trump’s resolve is to plunder and steal Afghanistan’s mineral riches to finance the “reconstruction” of a country destroyed by the US and its allies after 16 years of war, i.e “War reparations” paid to the aggressor nation? Continue reading
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EU Nixes Bayer/Monsanto Merger
Great news: The European Commission just announced they won’t greenlight the Bayer Monsanto merger. Continue reading
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Real Media: 'This is all a lie' – William Hawk Birdshead at the British Museum
This film records the reactions of William Hawk Birdshead, a DAPL water protector from the Oglala Nakota tribe, as he visits the JP Morgan Chase-sponsored North American gallery at the British Museum Continue reading
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Monsanto Shill Fired by Forbes By Dr. Mercola
A common corporate tactic, well-honed by the tobacco industry, is to use “third-party experts” to bring the industry’s message to the public under the cloak of independent opinion or expertise. The idea is that academic types are far more credible than industry employees when it comes to defending the industry’s position. Over the years, I’ve… Continue reading
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After Charlottesville By S. Artesian
The nazi-right, stoked on secret hand signals from Stephen Miller; stroked and groomed by Rupert Murdoch and Fox and Friends; decided to make the removal [of] the statue honoring the traitorous general of the traitorous army of the slaveholder traitors’ rebellion the call to arms, with the arms being this time a tricked out retro-new… Continue reading
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Video: Ian Angus on the Anthropocene and ecosocialism
We now face the challenge of changing the world in the context of impending environmental disaster on a global scale. That’s reality in our time. Continue reading
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Media’s Grim Addiction to Perseverance Porn
3 July 2017 — FAIR You’ve seen or heard or read the personal interest story a thousand times: An enterprising seven-year-old collects cans to save for college (ABC7, 2/8/17), a man with unmatched moxie walks 15 miles to his job (Today’s Show, 2/20/17), a low-wage worker buys shoes for a kid whose mother can’t afford… Continue reading
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Video: Grenfell Tower and the Violence of Austerity
TRNN’s Mohamed Elmaazi speaks with attendees of the University of London’s panel discussion on the “Grenfell Tower Fire: The Avoidable Tragedy,” examining the political, social and economic environments in which the the fire occurred Continue reading
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World’s Richest Person Escapes Scrutiny From His Own Paper–and Its Rivals
The three most prominent US newspapers haven’t run a critical investigative piece on Jeff Bezos’ company Amazon in almost two years, a FAIR survey finds. A review of 190 articles from the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and the Bezos-owned Washington Post over the past year paints a picture of almost uniformly uncritical–ofttimes boosterish–coverage.… Continue reading
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Video: A Chilling effect on the right to protest
27 July 2017 — The Canary Watch the shocking film that shows how low the police will go to protect the interests of big business A new film released by the Network for Police Monitoring (Netpol) reveals the lengths to which the police are prepared to go in preventing protest; and how far they are… Continue reading
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Reuters vs. UN Cancer Agency: Are Corporate Ties Influencing Science Coverage?
Ever since they classified the world’s most widely used herbicide as “probably carcinogenic to humans,” a team of international scientists at the World Health Organization’s cancer research group have been under withering attack by the agrichemical industry and its surrogates. Continue reading
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Monsanto/Bayer: #mergerfromhell
Bayer and Monsanto just filed their merger for approval — and European regulators could approve it in less than three weeks… Can you send an email to the European Commissioner for Competition, Margarete Vestager and ask her to stop this merger from hell? Continue reading
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Make that call to MIchael Gove to ban Glyphosate!
The European Commission hasn’t learnt a bit. They officially presented a proposal to licence a toxic pesticide called glyphosate for ten more years, even though we’ve just submitted over 1.3 million ECI signatures for verification. The Commission is moving forward on glyphosate before they have to address our ECI, and now it is national ministers… Continue reading
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Video: Local Community 'Put Their Bodies On the Line' to Protest UK Fracking Site
Anti-fracking activists have joined the local community in Lancashire for a ‘rolling resistance’ month of direct action protests, after the UK government overruled the local government’s ban on fracking (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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