GM crops in India: Approval by contamination?
Despite the ban on GM cops, in 2005, biologist Pushpa Bhargava noted that unapproved varieties of several GM crops were being sold to farmers
Despite the ban on GM cops, in 2005, biologist Pushpa Bhargava noted that unapproved varieties of several GM crops were being sold to farmers
Military forces long employed the practice of air-dropping paper leaflets with messages on people and military forces that are targeted for attack. One of the earliest known incidences of an airdrop happened in 1870 during the Franco-Prussian war, when leaflets were dropped from a French balloon.
Between the Skripal poisonings and the staged Douma chemical attack, the West has been on a mission to find a solid pretext for ramping up their hysteria against Russia even further, to ever more so isolate it, and for developing a good excuse to escalate the West’s military participation in Syria with an aim of eliminating the Assad government.
Unions have succeeded in twisting freedom of association into a special privilege that denies others their freedom of association.
By Martin SIEFF | Strategic Culture Foundation | 30.06.2018 Charles Krauthammer, the eminent US media pundit died in June 2018 at the age of 68, reportedly of cancer of the small intestine. Krauthammer was the loudest and leading public voice of the neoconservative movement in the United States. He was a lifelong warmonger and proud […]
Sputnik News reported Friday that French-Israeli analyst Mylene Doublet O’Kane believes that the June 23th halt in aid to Syrian rebels in the south of that country by the Americans is a signal to Moscow ahead of the the planned July 16th meeting between President Trump and his Russian counterpart President Vladimir Putin.
By David Swanson | American Herald Tribune | June 30, 2018 Newly popular Democratic politician hero and nominee for a seat in the U.S. Congress Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez used to have these words on her website: A Peace Economy “Since the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the United States has entangled itself in war and occupation […]
Around a hundred film actors, directors, technicians, writers and activist have signed a statement condemning the decision of Association of Malayalam Movie Artists (AMMA) to reinstate the Malayalm movie star Dileep who is an accused in the adduction and molestation of a fellow actress. They extended their solidarity and support to the actress and demanded that an atmosphere should be[Read More...]
For the first time in 67 years, the United States will not lead the United Nations migration agency. Isaacs is considered to hold opinions which run counter to the purpose of the agency, including his perspectives on Islam and climate change, which both happen to be major factors impacting the migration of peoples around the globe.
Just a few decades ago, smoking was the leading preventable cause of death—today it has reached a record low, largely due to effective ad campaigns (paid for by the industry, not government) and cigarette taxes.
The South Korean President Moon Jae-in made an official State Visit to Russia from 21 to 23 June.
This was the third summit (after their meetings during the G20 summit in July and the Eastern Economic Forum in September 2017) and the first State Visit to Russia in 19 years (South Korean leaders’ visits at other times did not have such a high status).
Following US President Donald Trump’s metals tariffs, Canada, together with a host of other American trading partners, vowed responsive tariffs aimed at goods imported from the US. Those threats are now becoming a reality as Canada’s response is becoming a reality on July 1st, when Canadian tariffs will go into effect.
CNBC reports:
Trump, Rapist by Chip ProserThe headline of the new Kaiser Family Foundation poll tells us a lot about America: Poll: Two-thirds of Americans Don’t Want the Supreme Court to Overturn Roe v. Wade. Two-thirds is a lot. But one third is the hard core Trumpist base.
Allow your enemy to lead you where you want to go and where you want him to be. No, this is not a Sun Tsu quote. But it sounds like something he might have said. One of his minor disciples is Donald Trump. This one has an uncanny knack of letting his enemies waste all their firepower proclaiming him a monster (which the people already either fervently believe or equally fervently do not believe). He then concedes the prized ground that his enemies spent their blood for. Only then do they realize that he suckered them, once again. They are in the swamp and he occupies the high ground.
Allow your enemy to lead you where you want to go and where you want him to be. No, this is not a Sun Tsu quote. But it sounds like something he might have said. One of his minor disciples is Donald Trump. This one has an uncanny knack of letting his enemies waste all their firepower proclaiming him a monster (which the people already either fervently believe or equally fervently do not believe). He then concedes the prized ground that his enemies spent their blood for. Only then do they realize that he suckered them, once again. They are in the swamp and he occupies the high ground.
Massive waves of refugees and migrants flooded Europe over the past few years, adding to the migration that Europe has been encountering now for decades. With a worsening demographic winter blowing over the region together with increasing poverty and income inequality, the refugee crisis brings with it a host of new liabilities, political, demographic, cultural, and economic in nature, to be faced by the bloc.
US President Donald Trump says he is “winning”, but what he is actually doing is disrupting the entire US political structure, and causing mass hysteria among the powerful liberal left media and wealthy socialite strata.
From a Russia collusion hoax to a fake TIME magazine cover, and now a Supreme Court justice seat suddenly vacant, Democrats are in full panic mode. Open-borders globalists are calling for a revolution, and Auntie Maxine is pressing her legion of zombies to confront MAGA hat wearers and “push back” against them anywhere they may be.
Israel spins the concept of democracy in whichever direction that would allow it to ensure the dominance of the Jewish majority at the expense of Palestinians, the native inhabitants of the land, whose rising numbers are often seen as a ‘demographic threat’, a ‘bomb’ even.
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The Bayer – Monsanto convergence is not occurring in a corporate vacuum. It is all part of a race on the part of the global agrochemical companies to stake off the world’s food supplies.
European leaders are sticking to their guns on the anti-Russia bandwagon approach as the the European Council elected to extend economic sanctions against Russia for another six months, with the logic being that the EU still insists that Russia is responsible for the conflicts in the Ukraine.
Deutsche Welle reports:
Iran – and Russia – may sit on an astonishing $45 trillion worth in oil and gas reserves. US fracking is largely a myth. Saudi Arabia may have at best 20 years of oil supply left. It’s all about energy – all the time.
Charles Krauthammer led his own country down the road to waste, endless suffering, unending wars, misery, drug addiction epidemics and economic ruin, Martin Sieff writes.
The Nord Stream 2 pipeline project is clearly showing itself to be one of the most polarizing issues in European political circles, and demonstrates in a very clear manner how foreign policy is perceived by European states. Some are able to forego certain aspects of their political hostility towards Russia in areas where insisting upon it would result in considerable damage to their own economic outlook, where others persist in their political russophobia regardless of the consequences.
Well, no sooner said than done! Yesterday I did my News and Views from the Nefarium (a day late!) on the EU summit, which […]
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The regulatory system for GMOs (genetically modified organisms) in India is in tatters. So said the Coalition for a GMFree India (CGMFI) in 2017 after media reports about the illegal cultivation of GM soybean in the country. In India, five high-level reports have already advised against the adoption of GM crops: The ‘Jairam Ramesh Report’, imposing an indefinite moratorium on Bt Brinjal [Feb 2010]; The ‘Sopory[Read More...]
[Prefatory Note: I post below two items pertaining to Gaza—my short poem, and a collection of responses to the question “What is the Future of Gaza” by a clever online publication, called ‘One Question,’ which true to its name poses a single question to a number of people presumed to have something to say in response, is the creation of Cihan Aksan and Jon Bailes. I only learned about this format because I am among the respondents represented below. My current concern is that while the world of states, and even the UN, has virtually abandoned the people trapped in
RT reported Friday evening that Russia has never considered handing Edward Snowden, the former NSA employee turned whistleblower to the United States in exchange for easing sanctions.
The Russian TASS News Agency reported that the matter of Syria will be fully discussed in the upcoming July 16 Presidential Summit between Russia’s Vladimir Putin and America’s Donald Trump. This was affirmed by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.
However, CNN claimed that the US President would make a deal with Mr. Putin that would allow him to pull US troops completely out of Syria. The Russian response to this was quite skeptical.
Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed Russia’s military future with a host of top generals, admirals, and military minds, as well as 800 young, newly commissioned officers.
RT | June 30, 2018 At least six soldiers were killed in a suicide bombing of the G5 Sahel anti-terrorist force in Mali. The attack came just days after the UN accused the force of the “summary and arbitrary execution” of civilians. A suicide bomber exploded a vehicle in front of the G5 Sahel joint […]
by NoahIt's fitting on so many levels that Herr Trump would be lured by the flag of Putin's old Soviet Union while swimming in a pool of warm yellow water. Why? Do you really have to ask? First of all, Putin's dream is to rebuild the former Soviet Union, and whatever Putin wants, Trump wants too.Herr Trump confirmed on Wednesday that, just like Putin's folks said, he was going to Helsinki to meet up with his BFF.
It is as clear as day that President Trump is obsessed with regime change in Iran. What is not made clear is how much his gambit is damaging to Americans and American interests. Without cause or justification, Mr. Trump pulled out of the Joint Comprehensive Plan Of Action (JCPOA), striking a hard blow to America’s European allies – and its[Read More...]
In a paper published last week in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution, a team of Australian researchers argue that we need to shift conservation goals to focus on diverse and ambitious “nature retention targets” if we’re to truly safeguard the environment, biodiversity, and humanity. The researchers, who are affiliated with Australia’s University of Queensland (UQ) and the Wildlife Conservation[Read More...]
I frequently write about global politics following an interest in US foreign policy as it tends to strive towards global hegemony by one means or another. Included in that are commentaries on Canada, my home country, and how we run double standards at home and abroad as willing followers of those same policies. This commentary is a departure from that.[Read More...]
The Human Rights Forum (HRF) demands that the government initiate steps immediately to ensure that the Sompeta wetland (known locally as the beela) in Srikakulam district is not vandalised further by the Nagarjuna Construction Company (NCC). All attempts by the NCC to set up an “industrial park” must be disallowedsince it will devastate the lives of thousands of farmers and[Read More...]
We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one -Jacques Cousteau While the world has significantly improved food security, it is now faced with a mounting challenge on a more major front: water insecurity. Water has been crucial to all civilizations. In India, however, it is of much more importance as over 600 million people get their[Read More...]
(MEMO) — Turkey will not cut off trade ties with Iran at the behest of other countries, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Friday, after the United States told countries to cut all imports of Iranian oil. Washington has told its allies to cut imports of Iranian oil by November, a senior State Department official said this […]
The reunification of Europe was still three decades away when, in 1963, the playwright Vaclav Havel presented his first works in Prague’s Theater of the Absurd, ushering in the transformation of the historically staid Czech culture into a whimsical one that contributed to the downfall of Communism in Eastern Europe.
(ANTIWAR.COM) — The US military has formally ended a 70-year presence in the South Korean capital of Seoul on Friday, with the opening of a new military headquarters further south in the city of Pyeongtaek. The US has had forces in Seoul since shortly after World War 2. The new base is further south, and therefore out of […]
MintPress speaks with legal expert and law professor Ryan Alford, who warns that hidden within the recent Supreme Court ruling on the Trump administration’s “Muslim travel ban” is a massive power giveaway to the executive branch that allows any president to order the mass detention of American citizens without worrying about a challenge from the […]
CNN began with the slogan, articulated by its founder Ted Turner: “The news is the star.”That has long since ceased to be a reflection of what CNN does. Despite promoting itself with its dubious “facts first” slogan, the network endlessly touts its celebrity pundits and anchors: Wolf Blitzer, Anderson Cooper, Chris Cuomo, Christiane Amanpour, Fareed Zakaria, et al.
By As`ad AbuKhalil | Consortium News | June 29, 2018 There is no question that Bernard Lewis was one of the most politically—not academically—influential Orientalists in modern times. Lewis’ career can be roughly divided into two phases: the British phase, when he was a professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, […]
Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, second in line to the British throne, visited Israel this week. He seems a likable person. He looked like a prince should look, did all the right things, said all the right things, and even ate a watermelon with our mayor on the sandy shore of Tel Aviv. If the … Continue reading "Princely Visits"
Le sommet de l’Union européenne qui s’est tenu jeudi 28 juin a confirmé ce que l’on pouvait en escompter. Si les pays de l’UE se sont efforcés de sauver les apparences, la vacuité du communiqué final et les difficultés extrêmes rencontrées pour aboutir à ce communiqué sont les preuves de la profonde crise que traverse l’Union européenne. Un pays sort à l’évidence victorieux de ce sommet, et c’est l’Italie au gouvernement issu de l’alliance entre le M5S et la Lega.
It was 90 degrees in Texas when Melania wore her "I really don’t care. Do U?" trench coat. Her spokesperson, Stephanie Grisham, didn't want to discuss it: "It’s a jacket... there was no hidden message." OK, the message wasn't hidden, but did it mean something? Was there something we really doesn't care about?As one wag put it, "So . . .