Call to bring criminal proceedings against regulators, corporations over illegal Bt brinjal
Prashant Bhushan, public interest lawyer in the Supreme Court of India, issued legal notice to minister for environment, forest and climate change
Prashant Bhushan, public interest lawyer in the Supreme Court of India, issued legal notice to minister for environment, forest and climate change
IPBES provides no CVs for most members of its influential panel.
From April 29-May 3, a unique five-day conference took place bringing together leading scientists, engineers and policy makers to discuss the important matter of mankind’s long term survival in a very hostile part of the galaxy.
Craig MURRAY
Robert Mueller is either a fool, or deeply corrupt. I do not think he is a fool.
The Swedish prosecuting authority announced at a Stockholm press conference Monday that Sweden would seek Assange’s extradition from Britain to face investigation on a nearly decade-old allegation of sexual assault. By Joe Lauria Special to Consortium News Sweden’s deputy director…Read more →
The Engineering Assessment of Two Cylinders Observed at the Douma Incident has come to light after communications between the Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media and OPCW staff members. Below is the introduction from the WGSPM and a link to the document: “In our Briefing note on the Final Report of the OPCW Fact-Finding Mission […]
Bernard Lewis, a British-American historian of the Middle East, has been formidably influential in America – his policy ideas have towered over Presidents, policy-makers and think-tanks, and they still do. Though he died last year, his baleful views still shape America’s thinking about Iran. Mike Pompeo, for example, has written: “I met him only once, but read much of what he wrote.
As an expert report uses the spectre of “non-uniqueness” as a reason not to regulate new GMOs, GMWatch is not convinced
Israel is close to building a $55 million cable car through occupied East Jerusalem, despite opposition from archaeologists, architects, Palestinians, and a tiny community of Jews. Critics say the project is intended to hide the local Palestinian population from some 3 million tourists who visit Jerusalem each year, turning the city into a 'Disneyland' focused on promoting Israeli interests.
"S.S." and "A.C." both spotted this story and sent it along, and once you read it, you'll understand why: 1) my suspicion meter went […]
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Ostron och champagne. Njutning enligt Epikuros ska inte förstås som lyx. Dock var han väldigt förtjust i god mat och dryck…Frukta inte gud. Oroa dig inte över döden. Det goda är enkelt att åstadkomma. Det onda är enkelt att uthärda. Se där ”tetrapharmakos”, Epikuros fyrdelade kur och vägar till ett lyckligt liv.Njutning är det högsta goda, men njutning uppnås inte genom orgier och frosseri utan med ett enkelt leverne, genom att begränsa av sin åtrå och eftersträva kunskap om hur världen fungerar.
(TMU) — Though few of us like to discuss death, it is an inevitability that will one day claim us all. For this reason, there should be no shame in contemplating various methods of burial. In fact, you may even find yourself delighted by some of the newer post-death options. Not only can your loved […]
The increasingly aggressive moves by Trump’s hawkish advisers give the impression of a palace coup, writes Patrick Lawrence. By Patrick Lawrence Special to Consortium News Neoconservative hawks in the Trump administration, led by National Security Advisor John Bolton and Secretary…Read more →
(CD) — A human rights organization called it a “victory for mobilized civil society” when a Saudi cargo ship left France on Friday without a planned batch of weapons. France, along with other Western countries including the U.S. and U.K., has been supplying arms to Saudi Arabia, which is leading the coalition bombing Yemen. In so doing, say human rights campaigners, […]
Actress Alyssa Milano called for a boycott of sex, adding to her earlier call for the entertainment industry to ban doing business in Georgia after it passed the Living Infants Fairness and Equality (LIFE) Act, also known as the Heartbeat Law, that prohibits abortions in the state after a heartbeat is detected.
(ANTIWAR.COM) — Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido confirmed this weekend that his diplomats are seeking to open a direct line of communication with the US military, and would use them for “coordination” of possible military action to impose regime change. Guaido said having direct lines of communication between him and the Pentagon would put more pressure on President Maduro […]
Every few months, Asmolov’s digest examines how South Korea’s military relations are developing with its main ally and other partners in terms of military technology and politics. How these relations develop is more important for the author of these lines than Seoul’s lofty statements expressing the South’s desire for peace.
By Ron Unz • Unz Review • May 13, 2019 A couple of years ago I happened to be reading the World War II memoirs of Sisley Huddleston, an American journalist living in France. Although long since forgotten, Huddleston had spent decades as one of our most prominent foreign correspondents, and dozens of his major […]
Source : Consortium News, Anis Chowdhury & Jomo Kwame Sundaram, 22-02-2019
Le 22 février 2019
Les pays industrialisés ont progressé par des moyens qui ont été ressentis comme inadmissibles pour le monde en voie de développement, écrivent Anis Chowdhury et Jomo Kwame Sundaram à Kuala Lumpur.
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Source : Russia Today France, Interdit d’interdire, 08-04-2019
Frédéric #Taddeï reçoit :
– Laurent Alexandre, entrepreneur et essayiste
– Etienne Klein, philosophe, physicien et épistémologueLire la suite
John Bolton has gotten away with a dangerous deception. The national security adviser’s announcement Sunday that the Pentagon has deployed air and naval forces to the Middle East, which he combined with a threat to Iran, points to a new maneuver to prepare the ground for an incident that could justify a retaliatory attack against … Continue reading "Bolton Is Spinning Israeli ‘Intelligence’ to Push for War Against Iran"
“There is no military solution” is an often-heard saying since the “global war on terror” began almost 18 years ago. We need political solutions to the military conflicts we’ve embroiled ourselves in over the last two decades, most policymakers agree. But in the meantime, the last three administrations have sent in the military to pave … Continue reading "The Alarming Rise of Civilian Deaths in the War On Terror"
-by emorej81 year-old 4-term California Governor Jerry Brown's recent comments suggest that he sees himself as a potential Trump-beating anybody-but-Bernie nominee after 2020 primary campaigning has further exposed the general election weaknesses of Harris, Biden and the other anybodies.Q: Why did Jerry Brown say this 4 weeks ago?
Operations in the Hamrin Mountains left several militants dead.
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An impromptu challenger emerged on Twitter. Clayton Muirhead expressed an interest in my debates and topics and was eager to have an exchange on the history of the papacy and the different conceptions in Roman Catholicism and Orthodoxy in terms of the Triad, the office of Peter and the Christological implications of the essence-energy distinction.
National Lawyers Guild International Committee | May 4, 2019 The National Lawyers Guild International Committee unequivocally condemns the threats posed by the government of the United States and Washington D.C. Police Department to the Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. We also condemn the unilateral financial sanctions imposed by the U.S. government intended to […]
Derrick Broze looks at a story involving New York Congressman Thomas Suozzi and 5g safety.
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The US-backed, neoliberal Ecuadorian leader is persecuting Swedish software developer Ola Bini for his political sympathies, censoring critical media, and…
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Mukhisa Kituyi, secretary-general of the UN Conference on Trade and Development, at an e-commerce session on Africa, organized with the Alibaba Business School, April 1, 2019. HENRIQUE PACINI/UNCTAD
May 13, 2019
By Stephen Gowans
Reporter Anne Barnard has written a long piece in The New York Times titled Inside Syria’s Secret Torture Prisons: How Bashar al-Assad Crushed Dissent. The undoubted effect of the article—which accuses the Syrian government of running “a sprawling system of secret prisons” in which opponents of the Syrian state are maltreated, even raped and tortured—is to cast Syria as a rogue state operating outside the bounds of international norms.
by Sam HusseiniTo much attention, the actress Alyssa Milano on Friday tweeted: "Our reproductive rights are being erased. Until women have legal control over our own bodies we just cannot risk pregnancy. JOIN ME by not having sex until we get bodily autonomy back. I’m calling for a #SexStrike.
(MEMO) – Contrary to initial statements by the government of Fujairah, the UAE foreign ministry said in a statement that four commercial vessels were targeted by “sabotage operations” near the territorial waters of the United Arab Emirates, adding that there were no victims. The ministry statement was tweeted by the official news agency WAM. The government of […]
translation by Ana original: http://spanish.almanar.com.lb/315636 The small Venezuelan counterintelligence service SEBIN (Bolivian National Intelligence Service) managed to humiliate the CIA, revealed the Romanian expert Valentin Vasilescu. According to him, the US
This is today in Al Skeilbiyyeh, Syria, after six children were killed by the Jihadists that the UK. US, and the other war criminals, fund and support! Look at this grief!! Look at these mothers! Look at the little coffins! Your government has this blood on its hands!! These men carrying the coffins are the residents of this town who […]
Press TV – May 12, 2019 The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has confirmed, after initial denial, that a number of commercial ships have been targeted by “sabotage” attack near its territorial waters. The Foreign Ministry of the United Arab Emirates issued a statement, saying that four commercial vessels have been targeted by “sabotage operations” near […]
Graham Dockery | RT | May, 2019 Those dastardly Russian hackers are alive and well and meddling in the upcoming European Parliament elections, warned the New York Times. Just don’t expect to see any proof, because the paper offers none. Fresh from interfering in seemingly everything wrong in America, unidentified Russian hackers have shifted their […]
(ZH) — The co-founder of Facebook has stepped up his attack on Mark Zuckerberg just days after calling on the United States government to break up Facebook, according to Bloomberg. Chris Hughes, 35, who started Facebook with Zuckerberg said in an interview to CNN: “Zuckerberg has too much power — near-unilateral power. We all make mistakes, but I […]
SCAM-ALERTElizabeth Warren was in tiny Kermit, West Virginia yesterday, where she and her message were warmly received. The media dubbed it Trump Country. Politico's story headed it like this: Trump backers applaud Warren in heart of MAGA country. And it is true that Mingo County voters went strongly for Trump in November of 2016.
Yes, it is Sunday, and once again better late than never here comes my usual Sunday rant..Today of course is Mothers Day...... I spent this morning giving my better half a most excellent breakfast in bed which I cooked myself... Yes, I do cook and I absolutely enjoy it as it has been a very interesting hobby of mine now for several decades. It is in fact one of the reasons my better half latched onto me for the fact that I can cook and almost always better than she can (But do not tell her that, OK!)....
By M. K. BHADRAKUMAR | Indian Punchline | May 12, 2019 Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov remarked last Thursday in Moscow that no contacts between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump are expected at the G20 summit in Japan on June 28-29. “An encounter is not planned so far and there is no […]
Boris Nemtsov was shot dead on Feb. 27, 2015, 100 meters from the walls of the Kremlin in Moscow, two days before he was to lead a rally in support of Ukraine.