#MorningMonarchy: February 24, 2016
Portland pollution, DowDuPont and beauty risks + this day in history w/the Battle of Los Angeles and our song of the day by Savages on your Morning Monarchy for February 24, 2016.
Portland pollution, DowDuPont and beauty risks + this day in history w/the Battle of Los Angeles and our song of the day by Savages on your Morning Monarchy for February 24, 2016.
Zika freakout, 'Who Owns Organic' and breakfast all-day + this day in history w/the Day The Music Died and our song of the day by Field Music on your Morning Monarchy for February 3, 2016.
Dow Chemical and DuPont are to merge under a $130 billion deal, only to split into 3 independently-traded companies: one in agrichemicals, one in specialty products, and one in materials science. [1]
Is the merger between Dow Chemical and DuPont really the breakup of some of the Big Six agrichemical giants, or just a form of musical chairs meant to confound farmers and anti-GMO activists around the world?
By Gary G. Kohls | Consortium News | November 14, 2015 Fifty years ago next month (December 1965), with the urging of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the rubber stamp approval of President Lyndon Johnson and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, the United States Air Force started secretly spraying the forests of Laos with […]
Obama enlists big pharma to fight WV drug epidemic; Cops want even more of your DNA; DuPont loses toxic Teflon case.
DuPont has been dumping the chemical, C8 (Perfluorooctanoic Acid), into the water supply near its facility in West Virginia for decades, igniting too many lawsuits to count. Carla Bartlett of Ohio is the first in over 3,500 lawsuits against the company to actually win. DuPont has known of the chemical’s toxicity since the 1950’s, but continued to manufacturer it.
Leak shows White House working with tech corps to break encryption; World misleaders converge on NYC for UN General Assembly; Good News Next Week with the 'Library of Things'.
By Andrew Emett | The Free Thought Project | August 13, 2015 Thousands of people have filed lawsuits against DuPont for poisoning them with a chemical that causes birth defects, multiple types of cancer, and death. According to internal DuPont documents and emails, the company knew about the health risks to their employees and local […]
By Andrey Panevin | Slavyangrad | June 25, 2015 The Ukrainian crisis can be viewed as being composed of several interconnected factors, from the civil war to rampant corruption, and the wider geopolitical ramifications of American confrontation with Russia. Another—relatively overlooked—factor is the ongoing conflict over Ukraine’s natural resources. Of particular interest to transnational corporations […]
At what point can we start calling pesticide makers the true pests that need to be eradicated? At this point the number of pesticides in the world is beyond alarming; it’s (literally) sickening.
In the UK, it has been estimated that enough pesticide is used to account for 420g for every woman, man, and child. In the US, the numbers are similar, if not even more extreme.