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If you want a case study for how our current political system, dating mostly back to the 19th and early 20th centuries, with plenty of medieval remnants, is incapable of grappling with the issues of the 21st, the Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Bill is it.
Why is much modern food of inferior quality? Why is health suffering and smallholder farmers who feed most of the world being forced out of agriculture? Mainly because of the mindset of the likes of Larry Fink of BlackRock – the world’s biggest asset management firm – and the economic system they profit from and promote.
First the good news: According to a Harvard study released this month, a variety of healthy diet patterns dramatically reduced the risk of dying from a multitude of diseases. The study was huge—comprising over 75,000 women and 44,000 men followed for 35 years as part of the Framingham Study.
On Jan. 17, 2020, I got an email from Francis Boyle, a professor of law at the University of Illinois. Among Boyle’s accomplishments was that he wrote the US domestic implementing legislation for the Biological Weapons Convention called the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989.
Given the secrecy typically accorded to the military and the inclination of government officials to skew data to satisfy the preferences of those in power, intelligence failures are anything but unusual in this country’s security affairs. Now, the Department of Defense has delivered another massive intelligence failure, this time on China’s future threat to American security.
The U.S. tyranny of monopoly capital has long preferred to deal with fascist governments abroad, specifically in the Global South. American oligarchs’ foreign fascist sycophants are so much more malleable than democratic representatives; they don’t even have to be told what to do because they know. It’s in their DNA.
Maplewood-based 3M has made a group of chemicals called per- and PFAS since the 1950s, but failed for decades to report to regulators and scientists that they could be toxic to humans, animals and the environment. The company announced that it plans to stop making PFAS and stop using the chemicals in its products by the end of 2025.
A new study shows that pesticides are a key contributor to climate change, from their manufacturing, transportation, and application, all the way to their degradation and disposal. That’s according to researchers at the Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA), their efficacy is on the decline while climate change exacerbates the need to use more.
As the political situation becomes even more intense in the capital city of Lima in Peru and other regions of the South American country, the western-backed administration of Dina Boluarte has called for dialogue among the contending political forces.
/*-->*/ Russian Ambassador Talks Tensions Escalating as Us Eyes Regime Change in Moscow.
