Human Rights Report Slams Major Food Companies over Child Labor Abuses
Did child labor help make the food on your table?
Did child labor help make the food on your table?
I'm firmly in the doubters camp. So is the NYT's. Clearly. Or they wouldn't have presented this story in the manner they did.Bana al Abed- 220,000 followers on Twitter? Seriously? Are half of those bots and the rest developmentally handicapped with serious logical thinking impairments? Or is it just a case of being a whole bunch of mindless followers? Bandwagon.
Press TV – December 9, 2016 The United States military says it will deploy an armor brigade and an aviation brigade totaling about 2,300 soldiers to Afghanistan this winter. The Pentagon made the announcement in a statement released on Thursday, saying 1,500 soldiers will be sent to Afghanistan this winter, in addition to another 800 […]
The stakes have never been higher for legal marijuana.
The fake war on fake news builds, as straight-faced media and political leaders deplore disinformation they’re partly responsible for….--Obama orders intelligence agencies to prepare secret report on alleged Russian interference in the election
--Hillary emerges from “taking selfies in the woods” to praise Harry Reid and slam fake news and Pizzagate
--Nick Bryant, my expert on pedophile politicians, comments on “Pizzagate”
Speaking this week with host Kennedy at Fox Business, US House Member Thomas Massie (R-KY) insisted that Donald Trump’s performance as president should be judged according to whether Trump adheres to the nonaggression principle that Massie describes as “the heart of libertarian principles.” Massie proceeded in the interview to define briefly the nonaggression principle as that “you don’t attack somebody if they don’t attack you.”
Yesterday we all read that life expectancy-- particularly for the American working class-- has dropped.
RT | December 9, 2016 President Obama has ordered US spy agencies to prepare “a full review” of election-linked cyberattacks, but the public may never see it. The report should be ready before Obama vacates office and it is likely to be disclosed only to “a range of stakeholders.” “The president has directed the intelligence […]
This week, the momentum in Syria shifted dramatically as the Syrian Army liberated of the Old City in eastern Aleppo, so far retaking 80% of ‘rebel’-held areas in the city. As a result, operatives in Washington and their allies are now taking desperate measures in order to try and preserve the viability of remaining terrorist forces on the ground – in the hopes of extending Syria’s five year bloody conflict and overthrowing the legal government in Damascus.
Would you like to merge your brain with a computer?
In Niccolò Machiavelli's 1517 «Discourses on Livy» the famous Italian historian and political philosopher argued that sometimes it is «a very wise thing to simulate madness». The «Madman» theory was indeed a consciously deployed facet of President Richard Nixon's foreign policy.
Can society keep pace with technology? New advances in ‘smart tech’ are radically changing the relationship between customer and business. Here are some important trends to keep an eye on…
MEMO | December 9, 2016 Hundreds of complaints of torture against Shin Bet agents have produced not a single criminal investigation, according to a report in Haaretz. Of the 598 complaints filed between 2001 and 2008, every single case was closed by the Israeli authorities without a criminal investigation. A department within the Ministry of […]
The election would literally have to be stolen from him, but it's actually possible and legal.
The Washington ComPost, fever dreams and record sales + this day in history w/"The Mother of All Demos" and our song of the day by The xx on your Morning Monarchy for December 9, 2016.
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
British writers on peace and war
William Wordsworth: Selections on peace and war
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William Wordsworth
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No shadowy forms entice the soul aside,
The current controversy is different. Many people in Washington are irate over Wikileaks — not because the email were untrue but because they proved what many had long suspected . . . that Washington is a highly corrupt place full of truly despicable people. For people who make their living on controlling media and information, it was akin to the barbarians breaching the walls of Rome. So the answer is to call for government regulation to combat what will be declared “fake” news or propaganda.
Dying of drugs and despair — causes of death in the working class, from a 2015 study. by Gaius PubliusPart of the surprising primary-season discovery that Trump was popular, was the discovery of where he was popular. Put bluntly, he was popular where people, especially working class people, were dying.
Donald Trump, the President-elect has said he would revisit trade relations with China and bring back American companies based there [Xinhua]
Tension between China and the US over President-elect Donald Trump’s phone call with his Taiwanese counterpart Tsai Ing-wen escalated today when Chinese officials warned they opposed relations between Taipei and Washington.
Gulf countries have gone on massive military spending sprees recently.
In today’s show originally broadcast on December 9 2016, TBR Radio’s Andrew Carrington Hitchcock interviews Dr. Adrian Krieg to commence a new series on his book, “Practical Economics For Millennials.”
Russia is winning across the spectrum: CrossTalk, Michel Kilo leaked intel, Egypt to support SAA Leaked: Top Syrian Opposition figure: ‘Saudi rulers are mentally impaired’ – English Subs Dec
By Salman Rafi Sheikh | New Eastern Outlook | 09.12.2016 The nature of international politics is often considered to be such that it continuously defies clear and absolute judgement; however, notwithstanding the complexity of inter-state relations, very often we come across such instances where understanding of the policy of a state, or of an alliance, […]
Administration lawyers have also warned the US could face legal ramifications.
I periodically do keep track of my site hits and watch to see who is reading this blog...For the longest time, my primary audience has been readers in the United States and right here in Canada... But recently I have watched an ever growing trend where more and more my readership are from countries outside of North America...Just in the last few weeks, I found an amazing shift as now the majority of page views and hits at this site are by readers in the Russian Federation (25000 over the last week alone!)...
The largest peach grower in Missouri has filed a lawsuit against Monsanto alleging that the biotech giant is responsible for illegal herbicide use that is believed to have caused widespread crop damage in southeast Missouri and neighboring states. [1]
Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Seaborne radiation from Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster has been detected in seawater samples taken from Tillamook Bay and Gold Beach in Oregon, researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution have announced. [1]
Source: International Business Times
The institution’s chemical oceanographer, Ken Buesseler, has been tracking the radiation plume in a crowdfunded effort “to monitor the ongoing spread of radiation across the Pacific and its evolving impacts on the ocean,” the institution’s website states.
25 years ago a gang of the Communist Party apparatchiks, enemies of people and traitors working for the foreign governments, got together, signed anti Constitutional Belavezha Accords and broke apart
Press TV – December 9, 2016 Russia says Moscow and Washington are close to reaching an understanding over the crisis in Aleppo. The Western side is pushing for a ceasefire in eastern Aleppo just as Syrian troops are coming close to liberating the city. Kevin Barrett, author and Middle East expert from Madison, told Press […]
U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy released the nations first-ever “Surgeon General’s Report on Alcohol, Drugs, and Health” on November 16 that includes both alarming statistics and a plan to fix the nation’s opioid crisis. [1]
Dr. Vivek Murthy as Surgeon General. Source: Salon.com
Plan would give national governments the power to ban the use of GMOs as ingredients in human food and animal food, even if the European Food Safety Authority says they are safe
By Robert Parry | Consortium News | December 9, 2016 Amid the mainstream U.S. media’s current self-righteous frenzy against “fake news,” it’s worth recalling how the big newspapers destroyed Gary Webb, an honest journalist who exposed some hard truths about the Reagan administration’s collaboration with Nicaraguan Contra cocaine traffickers. Webb’s reward for reviving that important […]
The book will be launched at 19.00 on 12th December 2016 at Parnassos Hall, Plateia Karitsi 8. Speakers include Nicholas Theocarakis (University of Athens), Thanos Mikroutsikos (Composer) and Kostas Vaxevanis (Journalist and publisher). Video messages by Noam Chomsky, James K. … Continue reading →
RT | December 9, 2016 Journalist Brian Williams has become the latest person to slam ‘fake news,’ claiming it influenced the US election. But there’s some irony in his apparent defense of quality journalism, as he was let go from his NBC gig last year for… reporting fake news. “Fake news played a role in […]
Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Phnom Penh and signed a number of agreements in October [Xinhua]
Cambodia and China are moving beyond agreements made last April to upgrade their bilateral cooperation in security, counter-terrorism and prevention of cybercrime.
Liu Guangyuan, director-general of China’s Department of External Security Affairs of the Foreign Ministry, met with Cambodian Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh and agreed to set up a mechanism to boost bilateral cooperation in these fields.
RT | December 9, 2016 The head of Russia’s Emergencies Ministry has proposed a new economic model of humanitarian assistance and reparation payments to victims of war zones, recommending that initiators of conflict pay for the destruction and suffering caused by their policies. “The Russian Federation proposes to build a new economic model of international […]
Russia may look big on the map, but its foreign policy has often been perceived as being a reactive one. It has always felt a need to protect itself from outsiders, so called “Great Powers” encroaching on its borders, whether it was the French, Germans or the creeping establishment of NATO bases on its borders.
(This piece originally appeared in Tom Dispatch / December 8, 2016)
This story was shared by so many regular readers here that I have to talk about it, for they suspect - and I agree…
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The presstitute media delivered the false news, not from Russian propaganda websites such as the Washington Post accuses this one of being, but from Obama’s US Bureau of Labor Statistics. The false news is that the collapsing economy continues to boom with 178,000 new jobs in November and a further fall in the rate of unemployment to 4.6 %.
By Jan Oberg
Damascus, Syria, December 9, 2016
I’m writing to you from war-torn Syria where the suffering of the people is beyond comprehension, heart-breaking.
The war in and on Syria has been started in spring 2011 – the underlying conflicts much much earlier.
What our media have shown us is snipers, bombings, killings, ruins, dead bodies and press conferences with Western politicians.
By Peter Phillips Professor Watch List: A Racist Violation of Free Speech By Peter Phillips Turning Point USA is biased against black faculty and freedom of speech. Turning Point is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization founded on June 5, 2012. They sponsor Professor Watch List http://www.professorwatchlist.org a website meant to expose and document college professors who […]
We can demonstrate our power by bankrupting the latest politically correct movie – Rogue One. The writers tell us that a diverse cast is led by a woman in their revolt against the white supremacists as symbolized by the Star Wars Troopers. Well, they are white robots so white men ought to feel guilty.
They spent $200 million on this turkey. Bankrupt them.
We don’t have to pay Hollywood money to make fun of us.
On December 7th, was posed the biggest test so far of the mettle of America’s President-Elect, Donald Trump.
Special Report: Twelve years ago, a campaign of character assassination by the major U.S. newspapers drove an honest journalist to suicide. Now those papers claim to be paragons of truth-telling, says Robert Parry. By Robert Parry Amid the mainstream U.S.…Read more →