By Jonathan Latham, PhD | Independent Science News | January 24, 2017 The GMO labeling issue has quieted down some but there is still plenty to discuss. Just this week the USDA proposed its definition of a GMO for labeling purposes and it includes loopholes for gene editing. However, it is also possible for reasonable […]
By John Laforge | CounterPunch | January 13, 2017 Work has been halted on two rulemaking projects that would have reduced the amount of radiation the government permits workers and the public to be exposed to without their consent. The improved limits would have been in line with internationally accepted standards, Bloomberg BNA reports. A […]
teleSUR | December 30, 2016 Margaret Thatcher wanted to eradicate cocaine in Peru with moths, according to newly-released documents, which also reveal the then-British government’s top-secret strategy in combating acid house parties and soccer hooligans. Her peer in the Labour Party, Lord Victor Rothschild, suggested in 1989 that to tackle drug production in Peru, “One […]
teleSUR | December 22, 2016 Ecuador has warned that an environmental group, accused of supporting violent acts that left one police officer dead and another with life-threatening injuries amid Indigenous protests against a Chinese mining company in the Amazon, is being investigated and could have its legal status removed. Accion Ecologica was notified Tuesday by […]
Al-Manar | December 23, 2016 The United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution titled “Oil slick on Lebanese shores” urging the Zionist entity to pay Lebanon some $850 mn compensation to cover the clean-up cost of an oil spill caused by the Zionist July 2006 war on the country. The UNGA voted 166 in favor […]
RT | December 9, 2016 PCB pollution is in “every waterway in the state,” Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson said as he announced a lawsuit against Monsanto. It is the first time the agricultural biotech giant has ever been sued by a state. Polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, have been at the heart of multiple lawsuits […]
By Whitney Webb | True Activist | November 25, 2016 The US Navy is set to release massive amounts of explosives and contaminants along the country’s Western coast over the next 20 years. Several times a year, the US publicizes its “war games,” both domestic and abroad, allowing the massive, heavily-funded US military to showcase […]
By Gilad Atzmon – December 2, 2010 Israel’s rural landscape is saturated with pine trees. These trees are new to the region. The pine trees were introduced to the Palestinian’s landscape in the early 1930s by the Jewish National Fund (JNF) in an attempt to ‘reclaim the land’. By 1935, JNF had planted 1.7 million […]
Sputnik – 24.11.2016 Two leading US nuclear engineering firms, Bechtel and URS, have agreed to pay $125 million to settle charges that they installed substandard quality pipes and containment vessels at a plant to reprocess dangerous nuclear waste, the US Department of Justice announced in a press release. The charges also involved diverting money from […]
China may scale down plans for nuclear power because of slowing demand for electricity and construction setbacks By Steve Thomas – ChinaDialogue – 26.10.2016 For China’s nuclear industry, 2016 has been a frustrating year. So far, construction has started on only one new plant, and its target of bringing 58 gigawatts of nuclear capacity in […]
