The Bigger Picture is Hiding Behind a Virus By Jonathan Cook April 04, 2020 Things often look the way they do because someone claiming authority tells us they look that way. If that sounds too cynical, pause for a moment…
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How To Save The Planet & Ourselves
How To Save The Planet & Ourselves By Chris Hedges November 18, 2019 If you read only one book this year, it should be Roger Hallam’s “Common Sense for the 21st Century: Only Nonviolent Rebellion Can Now Stop Climate Breakdown…
Child Agent Of Climate Awareness
Greta Thunberg & the Consolation of Doubt By Jonathan Cook October 02, 2019 The more Greta Thunberg articulates the terrifying emotions of awakening to our imminent extinction as a species – as she did, filled with trembling rage, at last…
Collapse Is Already Here
Submitted by: ButtCracker – Many people are expecting some degree of approaching collapse — be it economic, environmental and/or societal — thinking that they’ll recognize the danger signs in time. As if it will be completely obvious, like a Hollywood…
Climate change threatens extinction but politicians only care about next election – Ken Livingstone
Submitted by: ButtCracker — Our top-level politicians should make tackling climate change their utmost priority before it’s too late. But they’re distantly removed from the lives of citizens, and care only about winning the next election. UN chief Antonio Guterres…
Junk Planet: Is Earth the Largest Garbage Dump in the Universe?
Submitted by: ButtCracker — Is Earth the largest garbage dump in the Universe? I don’t know. But it’s a safe bet that Earth would be a contender were such a competition to be held. Let me explain why. To start,…
Biological Annihilation on Earth Accelerating? Population Extinctions, Entire Animal Species Destroyed
Submitted by ButtCracker — Human beings are now waging war against life itself as we continue to destroy not just individual lives, local populations and entire species in vast numbers but also destroy the ecological systems that make life on…
Destruction of the Amazon is speeding up — just when the planet can least afford it
Submitted by: ButtCracker — A tract of Amazon rainforest, cleared by loggers and farmers for agriculture, is seen near the city of Santarem, Para State in 2013. (Reuters/Nacho Doce) Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research, or INPE, released new data on the…
‘The Blob’ Is Back: What Warm Ocean Mass Means for Weather, Wildlife
The blob is back. Since 2014, a mass of unusually warm water has hovered and swelled in the Pacific Ocean off the West Coast of North America, playing havoc with marine wildlife, water quality and the regional weather. Earlier this year,…
EU Denies Glyphosate Link to Cancer: German Toxicologist Accuses EU Food Safety Authority (EFSA) of Scientific Fraud
Dr Peter Clausing says the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) and the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) have twisted scientific facts to give glyphosate a clean bill of health. The German toxicologist Dr Peter Clausing has accused the…
The Eurasian Century Is Now Unstoppable
I recently returned from a fascinating two week speaking tour in China. The occasion was the international premier of my newest book, One Belt, One Road–China and the New Eurasian Century. In the course of my visit I was invited…
Sperm Whales Found Dead In Germany, Stomachs FULL Of Plastic And Car Parts
The whales’ deaths are symbolic of humanity’s shocking disregard for marine life. In January, 29 sperm whales were found stranded on shores around the North Sea, an area that is too shallow for the marine wildlife. Only recently were details…
Monsanto Reports Lower Profits But Acquires New Technology in Shift Away From Current GMO Methods
Monsanto Company announced its fourth quarter and fiscal year 2016 earnings on Wednesday, with mixed results showing the company is under pressure. The St. Louis-based seed and chemical company’s net loss for the fourth quarter was $191 million, which is…
Deadly pathogens repeatedly dispatched by U.S. labs to unsecure sites
Submitted by Buttkicker The government isn’t regulating how highly dangerous viruses and bacteria are rendered safe for shipment, posing risks to the public, auditors say The map depicts sites that received anthrax samples from the Defense Department’s Dugway Proving Ground…
How Israel Stole the Bomb
Exclusive: When Israel launched a covert scheme to steal material and secrets to build a nuclear bomb, U.S. officials looked the other way and obstructed investigations, as described in a book reviewed by James DiEugenio. By James DiEugenio In 1968,…
“Safe” Zika pesticide nukes millions of bees
Jon Rappoport Millions of bees have just died in South Carolina, because Dorchester County officials decided to attack Zika mosquitoes from the air, from planes, with a pesticide called Naled. The Washington Post reports, in an article headlined: “‘Like it’s…
Thorium Power Is the Safer Future of Nuclear Energy
So, the question is: why aren’t we going in the below direction—?? Because The Fossil Fuel Cartel & Military won’t have it———- Thorium Energy Generation doesn’t depend on the vagaries of the weather as do solar & wind energy, plus…
The Earth Just Experienced the Hottest Month on the Books. Period.
July 2016 was “the warmest month of any in a data record that can be extended back to the nineteenth century,” according to the U.K.-based Copernicus Climate Change Service (CCCS). Hot enough to fry an egg, they say. (Photo: Jen/cc/flickr)…
Cell Towers and Cellphones. Microwave Radiation, Electromagnetic Pollution, Impacts on Human Health
“Electromagnetic pollution may be the most significant form of pollution human activity has produced this century, all the more dangerous because it is invisible and insensible.” — Andrew Weil, MD, bestselling author We live in the information age when we’re bombarded every…