I got involved with this issue [Mad Cow disease] through my work fighting alongside farmers and consumers who were opposed to Monsanto's genetically-engineered cow hormone (rBGH), which is injected into cows to force them to produce more milk. The interesting thing is that in order to get more milk out of these cows you have to give them fat and ( Read more... )

In 1946 Observer editor David Astor lent George Orwell a remote Scottish farmhouse in which to write his new book, Nineteen Eighty-Four. It became one of the most significant novels of the 20th century. Here, Robert McCrum tells the compelling story of Orwell's torturous stay on the island where the author, close to death and beset by creative ( Read more... )

During the war in Vietnam more than 18 million gallons of dioxin-laden Agent Orange and other herbicides were sprayed over ten per cent of South Vietnam between 1961 and 1971, poisoning and defoliating millions of hectares of forest and croplands. In neighbouring Laos about half-a-million gallons of herbicide were sprayed over 80,000 hectares.

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Because there are higher spiritual powers that are in communication with human beings, we must always be ready to receive new revelations at new locations. If this opportunity did not exist, all deities & spirits would be dead. Consequently, the Iroquois always look forward to the revelation of new, sacred places & new ceremonies.

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Truly, the good man is the teacher of the bad, as they say. But the bad man is the lesson of the good, in part some material from which the good can learn. And so the imperfect is the equipment of the perfect man.

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"The Long Island Lighting Company spent twenty-five years and $6 billion-eighty times the original estimate-trying to get the Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant up and running. But it was never licensed to operate. The debacle saddled Long Island residents with some of the nation’s highest electricity rates and pushed the regional economy to the brink of ( Read more... )

Review By Stephen Lendman

The World Food Crisis: What's Behind it and What We Can Do About it

Bird flu: a bonanza for 'Big Chicken'

Swine flu impacts global economy

The Ten-Year Track Record of NAFTA

American Farmers, Korean Farmers' Enemies?

Getting Real About the High Price of Cheap Food

"Nature is smart as hell"

Great Plains


Farmer in Chief


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From his Cessna a mile above the southern Amazon, John Carter looks down on the destruction of the world's greatest ecological jewel. He watches men converting rain forest into cattle pastures and soybean fields with bulldozers and chains. He sees fires wiping out such gigantic swaths of jungle that scientists now debate the "savannization" of the ( Read more... )