Exposure to glyphosate herbicide linked to Parkinson's disease
Individuals exposed to land use associated with glyphosate had 33% higher odds of premature mortality from Parkinson's than those that were not exposed
Individuals exposed to land use associated with glyphosate had 33% higher odds of premature mortality from Parkinson's than those that were not exposed
(ZHE) — It’s official, within an hour after the first headline the president tweeted “We have defeated ISIS in Syria” and in reference to reports of a planned US troop withdrawal from Syria which unnamed officials say is to be initiated “immediately,” he added that the terror group’s defeat was “my only reason for being there.” We […]
Widespread misunderstanding of what economic growth actually means has allowed a system of political cronyism and inequality to thrive.
RT | December 19, 2018 Washington is planning to “rapidly” pull out all its troops from Syria, various media outlets have reported, citing US officials The decision was allegedly taken by President Donald Trump himself, who had repeatedly expressed his intent to get out of the Arab Republic earlier. However, the Pentagon apparently opposes the […]
Texans Grovel At Israel’s Feet
When It Comes to the US Constitution vs. Israel, US State & Federal Politicians Line Up With Israel Against the US Constitution
Paul Craig Roberts
Even the “tough” Marlborough-smoking Texans Are Nothing but Groveling Pissants at Israel’s Feet
In April 2018, Dr. Matthew Roman went to a Philadelphia gun store to purchase a firearm for home defense and was denied because he had a prescription for medical marijuana. Roman is now suing the FBI and ATF under second and fifth amendment grounds.
How many times has the concept of rebranding been discussed here? More times then I can even recall. If you are at all unfamiliar with the concept of rebranding..
What if protesters in Paris win, and the French government gives in to all their demands? What if taxes are reduced, wages increased, President Macron steps down? I am not talking only about the fuel tax; attempts to impose it have been already abandoned. I am not talking about increase of the minimum wage – the government already agreed to[Read More...]
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Stefan Zweig: Selections on peace and war
Romain Rolland: Selections on war
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Stefan Zweig
From Romain Rolland: The Man and His Work
Translated by Eden and Cedar Paul
I always figured the battle for the Democratic nomination would pit a progressive, presumably Bernie, against a corporate Dem, like Biden or Bloomberg or Gillibrand...
Flynn pleaded guilty to lying about attempting to influence a vote at the UN - and also lied about working as a lobbyist for Turkey. Prosecutors from Robert Mueller's office asked the judge to give Flynn little or no jail time because he cooperated in building a case against Flynn's former business associates.
If you're a UN bureaucrat, recent weeks have been full of disappointment.
The Bangladesh government is planning to move hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees from Burma (Myanmar) into prison-like dwellings on the remote and geographically unstable silt island of Bhasan Char. Around 900,000 Rohingya refugees are currently living in bamboo shelters and other makeshift accommodation in flood-prone valleys in Bangladesh, having fled murderous attacks by the Burmese military and Buddhist supremacist[Read More...]
On December 14, Martin Griffiths—the UN Special Envoy for Yemen—briefed the UN Security Council about the talks that had just concluded in Sweden the previous day. Griffiths, sitting before a large UN logo from Jordan, spoke by video to a Council that had not been able to move an effective agenda to end the brutal war on this impoverished country.[Read More...]
Fascism should more properly be called corporatism, since it is the merger of state and corporate power. Giovanni Gentile (not Benito Mussolini)
Most fascists would be insulted by the insinuation that they admire Google, Microsoft and Monsanto and are on the payroll of the NSA.
Corporatism means that the Congress can pass a law requiring you to do business with a company that has poor quality and even harmful products and services. Big Pharma and Monsanto come to mind.
The international press freedom group Reporters Without Borders detailed an “unprecedented” level of violence and hostility toward journalists around the world in 2018, with the number of reporters killed and detained while working—or in retaliation for their work—shooting up from the previous year. Eighty journalists around the world were killed due to their reporting work from January to November 2018,[Read More...]
Media Amnesia and the economic crisis: Interview with Laura Basu
by Ian Sinclair
Morning Star
6 December 2018
Last week something historic happened in the US Senate. For the first time in 45 years, a chamber of the US Congress voted to pull US forces from a military conflict under the 1973 War Powers Act.
South African Trade Minister Rob Davies punts Intra-Africa Trade
Cairo, Egypt hosted the first-ever Intra-African Trade Fair (IATF) from December 11 to 17, 2018 [PREUSS]
Is the US Government supposed to be representing and protecting the people in Israel, or instead to be representing and protecting the people in the United States of America?
A December 13 report in The Wall Street Journal shone light on a notion that has been afoot in the Russian Federation since the fall of Communism in 1991 – the restoration of the Monarchy as the form of government, complete with a new Tsar of all the Russias.
Of course, some of these monarchists have a top contender in mind for that post, none other than President Vladimir Putin himself.
On 30 August, South Korea’s President replaced several ministers including the Minister of National Defense. Jeong Kyeong-do, who was a former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was appointed as the new minister. He is the first appointee to have come from the Air Force in the past 24 years.
No Russiagate witch hunt investigation was warranted. No special counsel should have been appointed. The whole ugly business should be terminated straightaway. All the allegations and accusations about Russian election meddling were and continue to be bald-faced Big Lies.
All Trump can do now is openly admit that America is in Syria on behalf of Israel and Saudi Arabia to get Iran. That’s it.
The current downturn in fan attendance is the proverbial ‘canary in the coalmine,’ a foreboding sign of bad times down the road for the American superpower.
The spring of hope has arrived at last. The Bharatiya Janata Party and its powerful propaganda machine had pitched this as a contest between Rahul Gandhi and Narendra Modi — Namdar versus Kamdar (the entitled one vs someone who has worked his way up). And the voters have spoken what they think of the performance of Kamdar! The Indians have[Read More...]
I was a member of the team that built the Mayura Factory in the Anamallais where I was the Assistant Manager in charge of the building project. So, I was closely associated with the project from the word ‘Go.’ The factory was built on Lower Sheikalmudi Estate and AVG Menon, my first manager was made responsible for the project. He[Read More...]
In rural Andhra Pradesh, there is a proverb that is reportedly used by rapists against their victims, “Allow me to rape you — or I’ll cut my own organ [presumably, the penis].” The saying reflects deep-seated misogyny and chauvinistic tendencies. The threat of self-immolation now emerging from Thiruvananthapuram against the Supreme Court order that allowed women of all age groups[Read More...]
Source : Ann Garrison, Consortium News, 14-11-2018
14 novembre 2018
Selon Ann Garrison, il est de plus en plus probable que Julian Assange, le fondateur et éditeur de Wikileaks, finisse entre les griffes du gouvernement américain.
Les États-Unis ramèneront Assange chez eux, enchaîné
United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Tuesday, December 18, 2018 Greenspan Advises Investors: “Run for Cover”; BIS Warns That Sharp Decline in Current Quarter Will Extend into 2019; Yellen Fears New Systemic Crash, Blames “Gigantic Holes” in Regulatory System; Issue Is Trump-Bannon Deconstruction of Administrative State; CNBC’s Cramer Calls Markets Treacherous and [...]
How repressed emotions influence our health through observations in quantum physics, psychology, and spirituality. Atomic Healing As chronic illness, physical and psychological, effect the lives of an increasing many, it seems imperative that we understand effective methods of healing. Medicine is an very complicated field, particularly psychological medicine, and like most mainstream fields at […]