Green Jobs or Greenwashing?
Behind each piece of green technology is extraction. A recent International Energy Agency report estimates that reaching “net zero” by 2050 would require six times the amount of minerals used today.
Communities are Responding to Federal Court Fluoridation Ruling
The first to act was the Yorktown Water District in New York, which provides water to over 50,000 people in the towns of Yorktown and Somers. On Thursday, September 26th, Yorktown Supervisor Ed Lachterman ordered the suspension of fluoridation as a precautionary measure.
Matt Taibbi: How to Fight Back Against the Censors
This is post-9/11 America. Whether about surveillance, or torture, or habeas corpus, or secret prisons, or rendition, or any of a dozen other things, we ignore laws. Institutional impunity is the chief characteristic of our current form of government.
From Monsanto to Bayer, the Worst of Both Worlds
Farmers’ leaders from 18 states in India have resolved to oppose GM crops. They say GMOs in agriculture are harmful to human and animal health, the environment, farmers’ livelihoods and trade and are based on failed promises.
Christine Massey: “Don’t trust Public Health.”
In early 2020, the Canadian biostatistician Christine Massey realised that something was wrong with the COVID-19 story. She was motivated to commence investigations into virology and the claimed evidence for the existence of ‘SARS-CoV-2’.
Mistaking Militarism for Statecraft, Empire for Democracy…
No strategy to the war game, no accounting to our economy, we have fumbled and stumbled to the precipice of global war, now led by a Democratic Administration.
The Looming Catastrophe in the Middle East
Although the horrors following October 7 are devastatingly unprecedented, Levy asserts that this entire catastrophe was years in the making and the meaningless gestures of advocating for a two-state solution, for example, will perpetuate it further.
Meta to buy carbon credits from controversial tree plantations
The carbon credit reforestation project involves buying up huge swaths of pastureland in Brazil’s Cerrado savanna region and turning them into eucalyptus plantations, which are exacerbating drought conditions.