Friday
Oct222010
Women Are Dying From Hormone Therapy; Why Is Pharma Still Allowed to Push It?
October 22, 2010 Want to increase your chances of getting, and possibly dying from, node-positive breast cancer? Take hormone therapy.
Forging his way through the predictable UK media censorship: Dr Andrew Wakefield Responds to Measles Outbreak in Swansea
Entries from October 1, 2010 - October 31, 2010
October 22, 2010 Friday
Oct222010
Have We Really Solved the Mystery Behind the Shocking Die-off of Bees?
October 22, 2010 The New York Times made a long-awaited (and much emailed) announcement on its front page last week: The mystery of the ongoing and agriculturally devastating bee die-off (aka Colony Collapse Disorder, or CCD) has been cracked!
Friday
Oct222010
Hightower: Stop the Bleeding in Afghanistan
October 22, 2010 Are you aware that America has now been at war for nearly a decade? We've been fighting, bleeding and dying in two hellacious, multitrillion-dollar conflagrations since 2001 -- and our blood continues to flow, with no end in sight.
Friday
Oct222010
The Chances of a War with China are Rising
October 22, 2010 The United States conducts monetary policy the same way it conducts foreign policy; unilaterally. When Fed chairman Ben Bernanke signaled last week that he was planning to restart his bond purchasing program (Quantitative Easing) he didn't consult with allies at the IMF, the G-20 or the WTO. He simply issued his edict, and that was that. The fact that the Fed's policy will flood emerging markets with cheap capital, pushing up the value of their currencies and igniting inflation, is of no concern to Bernanke. He operates on the same theory as former Treasury Secretary John Connally who breezily quipped to a group of euro finance ministers, “The dollar is our currency, but your problem.”
Friday
Oct222010
Why Monsanto is paying farmers to spray its rivals' herbicides
October 22, 2010 Monsanto's ongoing humiliation proceeds apace. No, I'm not referring to the company's triumph in our recent "Villains of Food" poll. Instead, I'm talking about a Tuesday item from the Des Moines Register's Philip Brasher, reporting that Monsanto has been forced into the unenviable position of having to pay farmers to spray the herbicides of rival companies.
Thursday
Oct212010
The End of the World As We Know It? The rise of the post-carbon era
October 21, 2010 Only 500 generations ago, hunter-gatherers began cultivating crops and forming their tiny communities into social hierarchies. Around 15 to 20 generations ago, industrial capitalism erupted on a global scale.
Thursday
Oct212010
Ted Rall: Too Pig to Jail? Ban Foreclosures Now
October 21, 2010 SAN FRANCISCO--What would happen to you if you got caught forging a mortgage application? You'd go to jail. And rightly so.
Thursday
Oct212010
German Grid Aching Under (Too Much) Solar Power
October 21, 2010 BERLIN - The German electricity grid faces instability because of too much solar power, an expert said.
Thursday
Oct212010
Congress Seeks to put Dietary Supplement Makers in Jail for Ten Years!
October 21, 2010 Pharmaceutical companies are once again interfering with your ability to access information about dietary supplements.
Thursday
Oct212010
Food in Uncertain Times: How to Grow and Store the 5 Crops You Need to Survive
October 21, 2010 In an age of erratic weather and instability, it's increasingly important to develop a greater self-reliance when it comes to food. And because of this, more than ever before, farmers are developing new gardening techniques that help achieve a greater resilience. Longtime gardener and scientist Carol Deppe, in her new book The Resilient Gardener: Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain Times, offers a wealth of unique and expansive information for serious home gardeners and farmers who are seeking optimistic advice. Do you want to know more about the five crops you need to survive through the next thousand years? What about tips for drying summer squash, for your winter soups? Ever thought of keeping ducks on your land? Read on.
