Science was manipulated in EU glyphosate review, says NGO
The Glyphosate Task Force misled EU authorities regarding a key study on the toxicity of Roundup
The Glyphosate Task Force misled EU authorities regarding a key study on the toxicity of Roundup
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has promised heavy sanctions against parts of northern Iraq, should Kurdish secessionists go through with their threat to hold a referendum for “independence” in two days time.
With leaders of the separatist movement declaring that they will proceed with the referendum in spite of the US, Russia, Turkey, Iran and Iraq all opposing such a move, Turkey is already working on the details of its contingency plan.
The Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has on two recent occasions referred to Australia being “joined at the hip” to the United States on its defence and national security policies. That phrasing invited some critical commentary, but conspicuously, there was no demurral from the official Opposition Labor Party. To all practical intents and purposes the Liberal National Coalition and the Labor Party are indistinguishable on matters of defence, foreign policy and national security.
Below is a recent interview/discussion on North Korea with host Edward Rhymes, who wrote:
“The Vietnam War” began airing on PBS this week.
But, besides the fact it was not legally a “war,” THIS – directly from the lips of Vietnam “War” U.S. Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara – is the only thing you need to know about it…
“Mr. McNamara, didn’t you ever read a history book?” – The Fog of War
Catalonia is an autonomous community in Spain’s northeast, bordering France and the Mediterranean Sea, Barcelona its capital and largest city.
The Russian T-72B3 tanks have been tested during Zapad 2017 Russian-Belarussian strategic exercise. This is the first time the tanks were tested in a large-scale training event. The first batch of 20 upgraded vehicles entered service with the Western Military District of the Russian Army in February.
“That’s why Israel’s policy regarding the nuclear deal with Iran is very simple: Change it or cancel it. Fix it or nix it.” Benjamin Netanyahu, UN General Assembly Address, 2017 While he is very much the traditional politician, whose sheen has been corrupted, whose approach to policy merits suspicion, Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu was happy with US President Donald Trump. Trump[Read More...]
The receding specters of a war involving North Korea and a US-Russia confrontation in Syria. The sound of cracking ice in the frozen conflict in Ukraine. Russia and the United States bidding farewell to “tits-for-tat.” Is this the dawn of a brave new world?
Part 1* “The problem with Israel thus is not a policy here or there, but its overall strategy that has not changed since 1948 and is as cruel, and far more effective, than some of the ethnic cleansers now in action elsewhere in the Middle East and in the world as a whole.” Ilan Pappé and Samer Jaber The nature[Read More...]
Mr. D.W. sent along this article with his own speculations as to what it may mean, and I want to pass those along as…
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The Indian Express has silently withdrawn the report of sale of #NDTV. It was strange because an Express story does not come that easily to be refused. The track record of the Indian Express as far as the mainstream media is concern, is far superior and authentic to any of its contemporaries. Even today, the news stories in the Indian[Read More...]
The more people there are who ignore facts that contradict their beliefs, the likelier a dictatorship will emerge within a given country. Here is how aristocracies, throughout the Ages, have controlled the masses, by taking advantage of this widespread tendency people have, to ignore contrary facts...
What can be more ironic and catastrophic when a renowned linguist loses her language altogether,as the deadly Alzheimer’s disease (AD) fiercely ravages her brain? That is what did happen to Alice Howland, a professor and a linguistics expert at Columbia University, New York. Initially, it started with her inability to remember the word ‘lexicon’ while giving a lecture. From[Read More...]
There is much attention on the plight of the Roghingas in the media these days. Rohingas are an ethnic population of over one million Sunni Muslims living in Myanmar’s Northern Rakhine state. They are being persecuted by their own government and the United Nations has called them as the world’s most persecuted community. Since last one decade, scores of Rohingyas[Read More...]
Guest post by RAMEEZ RAJA The discovery of nuclear energy or radioactivity in 1930s and 1940s by the scientists in a sense murdered the true spirit of science. After the bombings by the United States over Japan in 1945, physicists and nuclear scientists practically got to know about the massive amount of energy a nuclear … Continue reading Are We Heading towards a Nuclear Winter? A Theoretical Framework: Rameez Raja
US training of Syrian opposition. (Photo: Daily Sabah)
Camille Otrakji
Creative Syria – 2015
-by NoahIt's almost too bad, almost tragic, that the English found Trump so offensive that, earlier in the year, they told him they didn't want him to visit their country. Think about that. The country that practically ruined the world with their empire over 100 years ago, and spends most of its time drinking now, finds Trump offensive.
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
British writers on peace and war
William Tennant: Ode to Peace
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While some of Troy and pettish heroes sing,
From September 14 to September 15, Astana held its sixth round of talks on Syria, in which the delegations of the guarantor countries Russia, Turkey and Iran, the Government of the Syrian Arab Republic and the Syrian opposition, as well as the UN Secretary General Special Envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, took part. The United States and Jordan were present as observers.
US President Donald Trump gave a stirring ‘campaign-like’ speech in Alabama in support of Luther Strange, during a close Republican primary race for the US Senate seat left vacant by AG Jeff Sessions.
During his speech, Trump weighed in on North Korea, rebranding Kim Jong-un from “Rocket Man” to “Little Rocket Man.”
A demotion in nicknames.
Trump began his speech in Huntsville, Alabama by telling the massive crowd that “Little Rocket Man” should have been “handled” a long time ago.
Trump said…
By Jonathan Cook | Dissident Voice | September 22, 2017 Israel has quietly revoked the citizenship of thousands of members of its large Palestinian minority in recent years, highlighting that decades of demographic war against Palestinians are far from over. The policy, which only recently came to light, is being implemented by Israel’s population […]
By Yves Engler · September 22, 2017 The real Rwanda genocide story has no Canadian heroes. Canadian commentators often claim more Tutsi were killed in the genocide than lived in Rwanda. Since it aligns with Washington, London and Kigali’s interests, as well as liberal nationalist Canadian ideology, the statistical inflation passes with little comment. A […]
Turkey is still angling to stop the Kurdish independence referendum.
The post Turkey Desperate to Stop Kurdish Vote; 41 Killed in Iraq appeared first on Antiwar.com Original.
Source : The New York Times, Shuaib Almosawa, Ben Hubbard & Troy Griggs, 23-08-2017
23 août 2017
Crédit : Organisation mondiale de la Santé
Sana, Yémen. Après deux ans et demi de guerre, peu de choses fonctionnent au Yémen.
Pour ce week-end, nous vous proposons la FAQ du NIST [National Institute of Standards and Technology, agence du Département du Commerce des États-Unis] qui a enquêté sur l’effondrement des tours du World Trade Center
Source : NIST, Michael E. Newman
Questions et réponses à propos de l’enquête du NIST sur les tours du World Trade Center – 19 septembre 2011Lire la suite
On Wednesday, the Spanish government conducted a number of armed raids upon government ministries in Barcelona, and effectively suspended the charter of the autonomous government to which they belong in order to interdict the circulation of that most dangerous of social threats: ballot boxes and the little paper slips that citizens place in them on … Continue reading "Catalonia: Spanish Centralism or Self-Defeating Hubris of the Authoritarian Mind?"
The United States faces a new nuclear power ruled by a communist dictator. Washington is worried that the leadership of that country is crazy enough to use its new weapons – even against the United States. Meanwhile, other countries fear that the “madman” in the Oval Office might just launch a preemptive nuclear attack. This … Continue reading "It’s Time To Make a Deal With North Korea"
What's your identity group? If you're Jewish and a Jew does something heinous or embarrassing, does that irk you even more than it would if someone whose identity group you're not part of did it? I love it that Mark Pocan, a gay man, has the best voting record in Congress and I'm embarrassed that a Kyrsten Sinema and Sean Patrick Maloney, both also gay, have two of the worst voting records of any congressional Democrats.
Source : The Intercept, Naomi Klein, 28-08-2017
Photo: David J. Phillip/AP
C’est désormais le bon moment pour discuter du changement climatique, et de toutes les autres injustices systémiques — du profilage racial à l’austérité économique — qui font de désastres comme Harvey des catastrophes humaines.
Militarized Police and Black Crime: A Dialectic?
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Militarized Police and Black Crime: A Dialectic?
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Source : Robert Parry, Consortium News, 12-08-2017
Les Démocrates et le Congrès, en mettant sur le devant de la scène le « scandale » du Russie-gate et en empêchant le président Trump de diriger la diplomatie, ont encouragé ses soutiens à la guerre en Corée du Nord, écrit Robert Parry.
By Peter Koenig There are no words, other than Monster, not even human monster, that can describe Trump’s appearance before the UN General Assembly last Tuesday, 19 September. It’s of
The NAACP issued it's first-ever travel advisory last month-- for the state of Missouri. Missouri has become a real police state-- with the most violent and unaccountable law enforcement systems in America, a virtual occupying force.
(ANTIMEDIA) — Drug warrior cops are having a rough week on social media. Police departments have taken to Facebook and other platforms to boast about drug busts, and in turn, they’re receiving strong pushback from internet users, particularly when cannabis is concerned.
From North Carolina and Ohio to Indiana, Missouri, and Texas, cops have been taking a beating.
Dear Revolutionaries, Stop going to meetings, it’s not working. Stop marching, put the signs down. Go home and begin investing in your families, your circles, your networks. Dear activists, stop killing yourselves for the revolution. If you haven’t slept in three days because of all the latest news, policies, and meeting and your beginning to […]
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Editor’s Note: The following is an English translation of an article that appeared in the September 19 edition of the Okinawan daily newspaper Ryukyu Shimpo. It was written by Satoko Oka Norimatsu, editor of the Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus. Norimatsu is also the Director of Vancouver, BC, Canada-based Peace Philosophy Centre.
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Nancy MacLean is professor of History & Public Policy at Duke, and her new book traces the rise of the pro-capitalist, anti-government Libertarian movement fueled by billionaire Charles Koch.MacLean holds the Chafe chair at Duke, and her impressive new book is Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America.
By John Pilger | Consortium News | September 21, 2017 One of the most hyped “events” of American television, “The Vietnam War,” has started on the PBS network. The directors are Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. Acclaimed for his documentaries on the Civil War, the Great Depression and the history of jazz, Burns says of […]
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Under fire, Mark Zuckerberg uses Facebook video to address “Russian meddling” in election, pledges more disclosure, transparency in political ads….--in Guardian op-ed, Julia Carrie Wong says Zuck is “putting lipstick on a pig”
--Trump calls attacks on Facebook part of “Russia Hoax”
--Topic A for callers today: Morgan Freeman’s dangerous, misleading video from Committee to Investigate Russia
John Pilger Tells Us About Ourselves. It is not a pretty picture.
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The lone survivor of an all-women anti-aircraft battery near Hanoi. Most were teenagers. (Photo: John Pilger 1975)
John Pilger
St. Stephen Church in occupied Jerusalem was vandalised on 21 September 2017 [Richard Hardigan/Twitter] MEMO | September 22, 2017 The Council of Catholic Churches in Jerusalem yesterday condemned the attack by “Jewish extremists” on one its houses of worship and called on the Israeli government to do more to curtail the escalating violence against Christians … … Continue reading →
September 23, 2017 (Joseph Thomas - NEO) - Many honest, busy analysts outside established media circles in the United States and Europe are plagued by mythologies stemming from once pseudo-truths they simply lack the time or energy to dig into and finally correct.Among them are enduring myths ab
Media Monarchy plays Matt Pond PA, Alison Moyet, Von Doom and more on #PumpUpThaVolume for September 22, 2017. ♬