‘The FDA serves the bottom lines of Big Food and Big Pharma. After pharmaceutical companies provide questionable testing reports, they pay the FDA licensing fees for the drugs’ approvals. And Big Food has their way […]
‘Leading the charge for more honest inquiry and debate, a cohort of scientists, professors, academics and other leading experts in agriculture is challenging a series of articles published in The Independent, a UK paper, that […]
‘Children adore the Sesame Street character Elmo, whose childlike innocence and sunny attitude have made him a favorite of young and old alike. And it’s that widespread fondness for the fuzzy little red muppet that […]
‘Around the country, protesters took to the streets Wednesday night in solidarity with those who have done the same in Baltimore in response to the unexplained death of Freddie Gray, an unarmed 25-year-old black man […]
‘The “fascist shift”, as described by author Naomi Wolf in The End Of America/ Letter Of Warning To A Young Patriot, is accelerating in Canada with the tabling of (“State Terror”) Bill C-51. Though universally […]
‘The US has always been a warfare state. However, the character of US imperialist warfare has changed dramatically. For over two centuries, the US regime’s purpose for war, whether on indigenous peoples, Black people, or […]
‘The mainstream media keeps churning out good news stories about the booming shale oil and gas industry in the United States. Apparently, the fracking industry is going to lead to America becoming the next Saudi […]
”The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) has issued a damning report on the University of Illinois’ firing of Steven Salaita that sets the stage for the institution to be censured. Censure, which must be […]
‘A court in Austria has rejected the US demand to extradite Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash over graft charges. “The US request has been denied,” said Judge Christoph Bauer after more than 12 hours of proceedings […]
‘Israel is obliged to withdraw from the northern part of the village of Ghajar, on the border between Lebanon and the Israeli-occupied portion of the Golan Heights, as well as surrounding areas, the UN Interim […]
‘Israeli security forces have clashed with Ethiopians protesting police brutality against the Africans living in the occupied Palestinian lands. The clashes broke out on Thursday when hundreds of Ethiopians held a protest rally near a […]
‘Iraqi security and medical officials say at least 16 people have been killed and more than three dozen others wounded in separate bomb attacks against public places in and around the capital, Baghdad. The officials, […]
Baltimore is burning and the book most relevant to the tragedy, and to that of Ferguson, MO, Detroit, MI, and many other cities in the US is Friedrich Hayek’s Road to Serfdom. The media will pimp the idea that racism caused the rioting, looting, and burning, but racists live in every city in the US that is not on fire. Baltimore and Ferguson have more in common with the Arab “Spring” and the frequent rioting in Paris and London than with the civil rights marches of the 1960s. Cairo and Tunis erupted a few years ago because they had armies … Continue reading →