India: Activists cry foul over GM mustard
Activists accuse government of supporting seed and chemical firms at the expense of farmers and other citizens despite risks
Activists accuse government of supporting seed and chemical firms at the expense of farmers and other citizens despite risks
Noam Chomsky's latest book (more info here) by Gaius PubliusScheduling note: I'll be on travel for much of the next two weeks, so no posting until early July.We've written in these pages about the history of U.S.-Russian relations since the end of the Cold War (examples here and
“This production, which we believe is just the tip of the iceberg, is a window into the nationwide scope of the FBI’s surveillance, monitoring, and reporting on peaceful protestors organizing with the Occupy movement.
Recently, 51 State Department employees signed a memo urging the president to change his focus in Syria from fighting ISIS to fighting the secular Assad government. They argued that targeting Assad would weaken Assad’s enemy, ISIS. The logic is not immediately apparent. They also dismissed any danger that a US attack on Russia’s ally in Syria might annoy the Russians, who spent more than six months bombing ISIS and al-Qaeda in Syria. Although these 51 represent a very small faction within the Department, the neocon war propaganda immediately latched on to it.
One of the concepts that emerged from the Vietnam War was that of destroying a village to save it.
The idea was that by leveling a place where people once lived, the area would be denied to the Viet Cong. The people? Well, they’d just have to find somewhere else. And you’re welcome, for your freedom!
The same cynical policy seems very much underway now in Iraq, in the U.S.-led campaign against Islamic State.
Press TV – June 21, 2016 Israel, which is widely believed to possess hundreds of atomic bombs, says it is not yet ready to ratify a UN pact on banning nuclear tests adopted nearly 20 years ago. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Lassina Zerbo, the head of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) […]
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network – June 21, 2016 120 Palestinian prisoners are currently on hunger strike in Megiddo prison in solidarity with Bilal Kayed, the Palestinian prisoner who was ordered to six months administrative detention without charge or trial upon the expiration of his 14.5 year sentence in Israeli prison on Monday, 13 June. […]
By Jean Bricmont | CounterPunch | June 21, 2016 European construction began as the dream of European elites and has become the nightmare of European peoples. For a number of European intellectuals and politicians, the dream was to transform Europe into a sort of Superstate, capable of rivaling the United States. For others, the idea […]
After an intense study session, you’re probably not thinking about working out. But a new study suggests that getting physically active 4 hours after studying might help students retain the information they just learned.
Researchers from Imperial College London and University College London have found that “high levels of antibodies – molecules produced by the immune system – are linked to a low risk of heart problems,” even in people who have other risk factors. The team has developed a new test that looks for levels of protective immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibodies, which appear to guard against a heart attack even when a patient has hypertension and high cholesterol.
Drug companies don’t need to give doctors thousands of dollars in kickbacks to sway them to prescribe their medications and implant their devices. A new study published online in JAMA Internal Medicine shows that doctors who received a free meal from a pharmaceutical company were more likely to prescribe the drug the company was promoting than doctors who received no such meals.
Exclusive: The Washington Post, the neocons’ media flagship, has fired a broadside at a new documentary after it blasted a hole in the side of the anti-Russian Magnitsky narrative, which helped launch the new Cold War, writes Robert Parry. By Robert…Read more →
On Monday, Google’s mobile site, as well as its iOS and Android apps, introduced a feature designed to help users find more relevant information on medical symptoms. You don’t have to enter a specific symptom to get information; you can look up something as vague as “my stomach hurts.”
Two pharmaceutical companies have confirmed that human trials for a Zika vaccine will begin within the next few weeks. However, they have confirmed that actual vaccines may not be available for mass consumption for another year or so. [1]
Several companies have competed in a bid to win the right to be the first to test the newfound Zika vaccine on humans. Pennsylvania’s Inovio Pharmaceuticals and South Korea’s GeneOne Life Sciences have been granted access to the first studies due to their success with the vaccine in testing on animals.
A yellow fever epidemic has been declared in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with 67 confirmed cases and 1000 suspected. There have been 5 deaths so far.
Yellow fever has been spotted in three provinces, including the capitol city of Kinshasa. Seven of the cases have been indigenous to the region, where 58 were brought in from Angola where it is suspected that the disease originated from.
June 21, 2016 (Ulson Gunnar - NEO) - The US has recently accused Russia of bombing what it calls "US-backed rebels" in southern Syria. CBS News in their article, "Russia ignores warnings, bombs U.S.-backed Syrian rebel group," would claim:
It seems that we are standing in front of a systematic zionist strategy to poison the wells of the Palestinians to force them out again from their homes and …
By Brandon Turbeville – Activist Post – June 20, 2016 As the recent standoff between Russian and American jet fighters over Syria still simmers in the headlines, both sides are claiming a loss of patience with the other regarding the support and opposition for Western-backed terrorist forces and the government of Bashar al-Assad. Not even […]
By Ulson Gunnar | New Eastern Outlook | June 21, 2016 The US has recently accused Russia of bombing what it calls “US-backed rebels” in southern Syria. CBS News in their article, “Russia ignores warnings, bombs U.S.-backed Syrian rebel group,” would claim: On Friday, Defense Secretary Ash Carter called out Russia for bombing a Syrian […]
Or can they? More bombs and less talk on Syria By Philip Giraldi • Unz Review • June 21, 2016 It is ironic that fifty-one U.S. State Department employees, perhaps overly-generously dignified in the media with the title of “diplomats,” have come out in favor of removing a foreign head of state by force. Detailing […]
A new documentary blows apart the West’s Russia-bashing narrative about the 2009 death of Sergei Magnitsky, so the response has been to stop the public from seeing the film while calling it Russian “agit-prop,” as Gilbert Doctorow explains. By Gilbert Doctorow Despite all…Read more →
“Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.”-Jean-Paul Sartre (From Being And Nothingness)-by NoahOn Monday, the U.S. Senate, having been shamed into it, was finally forced to vote on four gun-related measures.
Press TV – June 19, 2016 “The US still has only one motive, which is to oust Assad and convert Syria from a front-line state against Israel into a failed, broken and dismembered state no matter what,” Professor Dennis Etler says. America’s position on Syria is shrouded in double-speak as Washington has accused Russia of […]
In the era of the long war on terror, Thursday, June 2nd, 2016, was a tough day for the U.S. military...
RT | June 21, 2016 More than 1,000 children have been referred by teachers to a deradicalization program in the space of a year to prevent them becoming terrorists – but leading teaching unions insist some minors are being reported unnecessarily. Authorities were also alerted to hundreds of patients and higher education students who were […]
Vanessa Beeley
21st Century Wire
Who are the White Helmets? This is a question that everyone should be asking themselves.
5/5 (9) This has been a heavy geopolitical week of news, to be expected, I suppose, given our heavy concentration in recent weeks on more technologically related news. Yesterday, you'll recall, I blogged about the very…
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5/5 (3) Well, you may or may not have noticed, but the German Bundestag, over howls of predictable whining protest from Ankara, has passed a proclamation recognizing the Turkish genocide of the Armenian Christians during World…
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4/5 (1) In the light of today's main blog, consider thhe following story shared by Ms. M.W.:
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2016/06/21 10:00:01Welcome to the ‘Moveable Feast Cafe’. The ‘Moveable Feast’ is an open thread where readers can post wide ranging observations, articles, rants, off topic and have animate discussions of
Claire Robinson reports on a new study that indicates glyphosate herbicides may be endocrine disruptors
A court has ruled that consultation with indigenous people is required before issuing permits for GMO crops – but planting of GM soybean and maize continues unabated
The US has recently accused Russia of bombing what it calls “US-backed rebels” in southern Syria. CBS News in their article, “Russia ignores warnings, bombs U.S.-backed Syrian rebel group,” would claim:
On Friday, Defense Secretary Ash Carter called out Russia for bombing a Syrian rebel group that’s backed by the U.S.
World markets rallied Monday and Tuesday as fears of Brexit appeared to sink in recent polls [Xinhua]
Fears of a ‘Brexit’ – or Britain voting in Thursday’s referendum to leave the European Union – appear to have subsided in recent days as Asian markets get a leg up following polls in the UK which indicated that most would vote to stay in the organization.
Aaron Millar chats with Bruce Poon Tip, bestselling author, award-winning travel company founder and friend of the Dalai Lama, about his new book, Do Big Small Things, which challenges people to leave their comfort zones both at home and abroadThe post How travel can set us free appeared first on Positive News.
Ayotte has taken more than $10,000 from Monsanto despite overwhelming support in New Hampshire for GMO labelling, reports Food Democracy Now!
Last week America was rocked by the cold-blooded murder of 49 people at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida. Unlike the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the Orlando shooter appears to be a lone gunman who, while claiming allegiance to ISIS, was not actually working with a terrorist group. About the only thing Orlando […]
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More than 50 U.S. mid-level diplomats have sent a memo through the State Department’s "dissent channel" to a likely sympathetic Secretary of State John Kerry, advocating an American bombing campaign to bring Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to the negotiating table in the bloody Syrian civil war. The memo concluded, "It is time that the United […]
Some 50 State Department officials have signed a memo calling on President Obama to launch air and missile strikes on the Damascus regime of Bashar Assad. A "judicious use of stand-off and air weapons," they claim, "would undergird and drive a more focused and hard-nosed U.S.-led diplomatic process." In brief, to strengthen the hand of […]
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File photo of the C919, China’s first homemade large passenger aircraft, at a plant of Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China, Ltd. (COMAC), in Shanghai, east China in November 2015 [Xinhua]Moscow claims it has informed China about commencement of work on developing a heavy aircraft engine with a thrust of 35 tons for a joint Sino-Russian long-range wide-body aircraft.
With so much murder and destruction of infrastructure around the world from Syria to Ukraine to Venezuela and Nigeria, I want to highlight two recent projects to build new infrastructure in order to bring economic growth and prosperity to some of the least developed regions of the Earth—Eurasia, the vast land space between Russia and China. Two projects have just confirmed they are going ahead. The Moscow-Kazan-China high-speed railway via Kazakhstan is one.
Americans' confidence in schools, churches, banks, government and media at record lows; When everything else fails, amateur radio will still be here; and some blind kids in West Virginia got to be in a band.
Americans' confidence in schools, churches, banks, government and media at record lows; When everything else fails, amateur radio will still be here; and some blind kids in West Virginia got to be in a band.
Although fighting continues in Fallujah, detailed reports of casualties are few.
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Bobby Seale by Shepard Fairey -by Denise SullivanBlack Panther Party founder Bobby Seale gave a rare public talk in San Francisco at the Freedom Archives last week.
The story described by the author about the possible escape or abduction of girls from a North Korean restaurant to China, brought about a series of comments, some of which contained the assertion that “it is impossible for a North Korean woman to end up in the South against her will, and then afterwards demand to be returned back.” Unfortu