the stories the mainstream news slept through.
UN Warns Pesticides Cause 200,000 Deaths A Year
UN report says pesticides are having ‘catastrophic impacts’ on human health and environment while failing to end hunger.
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Human Trafficking in India Has Risen By 25% With 20,000 Cases in 2016
Human trafficking is still on the rise in India as 20,000 women and children are lured into modern-day slavery, a rise of nearly 25 percent since the previous year.
New NASA Experiment Shows Potatoes Can Grow in Mars-Like Conditions
Scientists at NASA and the International Potato Center (CIP) in Lima, Peru, have successfully grown tubers in an experiment that recreates the extreme conditions on the surface of Mars, in a NASA-backed project called “Potatoes on Mars.”
New Study Finds Brain Activity Continues After Death of Body
According to a new study, brain activity may continue for over 10 minutes after one’s body appears to have died.
NASA Discovers Entire New Solar System With Earth-Like Planets Capable of Supporting Life
NASA announced a remarkable, groundbreaking new find in a press conference on Wednesday: an entire new solar system filled with planets similar to Earth and could potentially support life. Researchers revealed that they have made perhaps the most promising exoplanet discovery ever, finding seven planets that are in orbit around a relatively nearby star,
The Petrodollar: The Real Motive Behind Provocation of War With Iran
United States foreign policy has changed very little over the past several decades, regardless of which political party is in control of each House of Congress, or which figurehead is currently residing in the White House. Iran was the final country listed in the “7 countries in 5 years” revealed by General Wesley Clark as targets for U.S. military intervention since 2001.
The Corrosive Effect of Perpetual, Relentless Lies and Deception to the Human Brain
The human mind suffers when faced with a constant barrage of lying, as leading psychologists have discovered, and lies are eventually accepted as truth.
New Kentucky Bill Seeks to Make the Bible Part of Public School Curriculum
Two Kentucky Republicans have introduced a bill that would make the Christian bible, especially the crucifixion of Jesus, the trials of Job, and the Ten Commandments part of the public high school curriculum.
BREAKING: Trump to Advance Keystone XL, Dakota Access Pipelines
U.S. President Donald Trump plans to sign two executive actions on Tuesday to advance construction of the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines, an administration official told Reuters. The move Read More…
2016 Is 3rd Consecutive Year To Break Global Temperature Records As ‘Hottest Year Ever’
NASA and the NOAA have jointly confirmed that 2016 was the hottest year in recorded history, ever since mankind began recordkeeping in 1880. The record was previously held by 2015, and prior to that, by 2014. At the end of October, Arctic ice was at its second-lowest point since we started keeping track.
Sanders Proposal to Import Cheaper Drugs from Canada Killed …By Corporate Democrats
On Thursday, January 12, 2017, 13 Democrats split from the majority of the party to join the Republican majority in the Senate in voting against a proposal submitted by Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and co-sponsored with Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), that would allow U.S. citizens to legally import prescription drugs from Canada at lower prices. The amendment was voted down with the final vote count at 52 to 46, with one senator each from both parties not voting. Meanwhile, 13 Republicans surprisingly defected from the party majority to cross the aisle in favor of it.
Why Socialism? – by Albert Einstein (May 1949)
The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of the evil. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals. In such an economy, the means of production are owned by society itself and are utilized in a planned fashion.
Al Qaeda Cuts Off Water Supply to 5 Million Thirsty In Damascus
There is a humanitarian catastrophe affecting millions of people unfolding in Syria, and the Western mainstream media are blatantly ignoring it. On December 22, 2016, Takfiris aligned with al Qaeda Read More…
Amid Fevered “Fake News” Hysteria, Mainstream Media Demonstrates How To Fake News Like a Pro With Fake Aleppo Coverage (VIDEO)
The Western corporate media’s increasingly hysterical denunciations of the Syrian “regime” (never referred to as a legitimate sovereign government), along with allies Russia and Iran, for alleged atrocities in the retaking of Aleppo, painting democratically elected President Bashar al-Assad as a “brutal dictator” who “butchers his own people”, is a measure of the disillusionment and bitterness within the Western neo-liberal power elite over this strategic reversal in the drive to overthrow the sovereign government of President al-Assad.
Michigan Recount Halted As Mass Voting Irregularities Uncovered in Detroit
37% of Detroit precincts counted more ballots than voters, while 392 of the city’s 662 precincts had voter counts that did not match the amount of ballots. 95 poll books were also unaccounted for at the beginning of the canvass, delivered several days later. 5 of them still have not been turned in and are presumed missing.