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Following up on “Back to the Future with Tom ‘Mr. Monsanto’ Vilsack,” this is the second installment in a series of articles we’re doing on President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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The final months of 2018 will likely be remembered as the time when the United States and global grassroots finally began to awaken to the existential crisis posed by global warming. Part of this great awakening was no doubt due to the fact that violent weather, forest fires, drought, floods, water shortages, crop failures, and unusually prolonged heat and/or cold waves became the “new normal,” striking home in both the Global North and the Global South, falling hardest on the poor and marginalized, but Read More
In this installment of the Gain-of-Function Hall of Shame, we add fellow anthrax alumnus David R. Franz, now an adviser to EcoHealth Alliance, the coronavirus-hunting funder of the Wuhan Institute of Virology that we covered in our profile of Peter Daszak.
The Agave Power agroforestry system has the potential to revolutionize farming and ranching in the arid and semi-arid farmlands and rangelands that constitute 40% of the world’s lands. We believe that it can green the desert, eliminate rural poverty, and sequester massive amounts of excess atmospheric CO2.
In the watershed of Tambula Picachos in the municipality of San Miguel there are 39,022 hectares of Read More
President-Elect Joe Biden has nominated Tom Vilsack as Agriculture Secretary.
This is bad news.
Tom Vilsack was “Mr. Monsanto” even before he started at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in 2009. Read More
The mainstream media, often acting in concert with business or government, have decided it is their responsibility to tell you what stories constitute conspiracy theories. But seldom does the media acknowledge that “conspiracy theory” can become weaponized; the charge becoming a means to stifle free inquiry into a topic.
In our recent profile of Bill Gates, we posed the following questions:
• Were his eerily accurate predictions of COVID-19 a form of wish fulfillment?
• Was he simply prescient, or did he have a hand in shaping the conditions that made the pandemic inevitable?
Most importantly, since SARS-CoV-2 may have escaped from a Chinese lab where gain-of-function experiments on bat Read More
In a Facebook LIVE conducted on December 3, 2020, renowned environmental activist, food sovereignty advocate and author, Vandana Shiva, called on citizens worldwide to rise up for food democracy to protect ourselves and the planet.
The one-hour event also included guest speakers Ronnie Cummins, international director of the Organic Consumers Association, Andre Leu, international director of Regeneration International and Hans Herren, president of the Millennium Institute Read More
There is a long-term disaster far worse than the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic will end in a few years; however, the world will lose many millions more to sickness, hunger, poverty and catastrophic weather events because of the unprecedented climate emergency.
The world reached a record of 417.2 parts per million of carbon dioxide (ppm CO2) in the atmosphere in May 2020 – the most in over 3 million years.
A study published in May 2019 shows that if we don’t succeed in radically reducing Read More
In the future, who will control food and farming, health and medicine, information and communication, law and government, money and commerce?
The corporate cartels began with their GMOs, pesticides and fake foods. Monsanto tried to make seed saving illegal.
Now the monopolistic mafias are using the pandemic as an excuse to shut down small farms. They want their tech tools completely deregulated to execute their plans through unfettered data harvesting, policing and surveillance.
Our most recent webinar tackles these Read More
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