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Where Have the Wild Birds Gone? 3 Billion Fewer Than 1970
A new study finds there are nearly 3 billion fewer wild birds flying in North American skies than in 1970.
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Swiss Voters to Decide on Whether to Allow Factory Farming to Continue in ‘Milestone’ Moment
On September 16, the campaign submitted more than enough signatures for the measure to appear on the upcoming ballot.
British Judge Jails Assange Indefinitely, Despite Completing Sentence
Though his sentence ends this Sunday, Assange has been ordered to remain behind bars until hearings over a US extradition effort begin in February next year.
The NED Strikes Again: How Neocon Money is Funding the Hong Kong Protests (VIDEO)
The West has more to do with the Hong Kong protest movement than it would like us to know. It’s the ugly face of Washington’s long-standing foreign policy directed at destabilizing one of its long-standing economic foes: China.
Western Regime-Change Operatives Launch Campaign to Blame Bolivia’s Evo Morales for Amazon Fires
As Brazil’s Bolsonaro allows elite landowners to incinerate the Amazon, professional regime-change operatives like Jhanisse V. Daza seek to redirect blame for the fires onto the leftist government of Bolivia, whose President Evo Morales faces elections in October.
Hong Kong Crisis: Made in America
A look at the organizations directly involved in leading the unrest and those supporting it reveals unequivocally that it originates in Washington DC – not organically from within Hong Kong itself.
Long Before Epstein: Sex Traffickers & Spy Agencies
Elizabeth Vos reviews the unsavory history of intelligence agencies providing protection to child sex-trafficking rings.
Shedding light on how the human eye perceives brightness
researchers isolated the functions of melanopsin cells and demonstrated their crucial role in the perception of visual environment. This ushers in a new understanding of the biology of the eye and how visual information is processed.
Kashmir Could Become the New Palestine
On August 5, India’s Home Minister Amit Shah introduced the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganization Bill in the Indian Parliament. The bill divides the Indian State into two parts: the Union Read More…
Opposition or Terrorists: Who is Syria and Russia Bombing in Idlib?
Scott Lucas, a professor at the University of Birmingham UK, would decry with the rest of the Western media – resumed joint military operations carried out by Syria and Russia in and around the northwestern governorate of Idlib.
Border Patrol Arrest Reports Are Full of Lies That Can Sabotage Asylum Claims
On December 29, 2017, the night his daughter was born, Augusto left the hospital and rode his motorcycle to his home in Matagalpa, Nicaragua, to pick up a change of Read More…
‘John Bolton tried to assassinate me’: Interview with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro
The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal sits down with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in Caracas to discuss the plots to kill him, US sanctions on food distribution, corruption allegations, and the corporate media’s industrial grade demonization campaign against him and his elected government.
The End of a Cocaine-Fueled Presidency? Juan Orlando Hernandez Faces Regime Change in Honduras
Honduras has been the epicenter of the Central American exodus and northward migration since the U.S.-backed coup 10 years ago and the ultra-violent repression by President Juan Orlando Hernandez’s regime, as well as its ultra-neoliberal policies.
Lava Jato Caused Brazil 5-7 Million Job Losses
“Treating corruption as society’s only problem is a problem,” says Brazilian economist Luiz Gonzaga Belluzzo, who talks of the damage to the Brazilian economy caused by the Lava Jato and Carne Fraca investigations.
‘Weaponizing human rights’: UN chief Bachelet’s Venezuela report follows US regime change script
Former UN special rapporteur Alfred de Zayas slams UN High Commissioner Bachelet’s report on Venezuela as a politicized collection of baseless accusations by “advocates of regime change.”