Growing Doubt: a Scientist’s Experience of GMOs
Baroness Shirley Williams: American Democracy for Sale — A Warning to Us All …
Access, Civil Society, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, GovernmentAmerican democracy is up for sale, and it’s a warning to us all
By the end of June this year, $388m had been contributed to the campaigns of presidential candidates in 2016
It is imperative in a democracy that those opposed to the government of the day can cherish the prospect of peacefully changing its leaders and its policies. Otherwise the alternatives are some form of violent action, a revolution or a coup.
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CounterPunch: How US and WTO Screwed India Over Domestic Production of Solar Energy
05 Energy, 07 Other Atrocities, 10 Transnational Crime, Civil Society, Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Corruption, GovernmentHow the US and the WTO Crushed India’s Subsidies for Solar Energy
The subsidies which provoked the ire of the United States are in the form of Domestic Content Requirements (DCRs). These mandate that a set proportion of specified materials used in the NSM must be manufactured in India. . . . The US attack on India’s energy subsidies represents breathtaking hypocrisy. The US itself provides subsidizes for renewables.
Mongoose: Russian Casualities in Ukraine – 2000 KIA, 3200 Disabled? UPDATE 1 – Story False
04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Civil War, 07 Other Atrocities, Corruption, GovernmentLies about the true costs of decisions made by elites are a form of treason.
Russia Inadvertently Posts Its Casualties In Ukraine: 2,000 Deaths, 3,200 Disabled
Angela Borozna: Western Media on Russia — Selective, Negative, and Wrong?
06 Russia, Corruption, IO Deeds of War, Media, Peace IntelligenceThe evolution of the West's negative narrative about Russia
The news on Russia became consistently negative after 2000. Positive developments inside Russia, or news regarding Russia's positive international involvements, were ignored while the negative news received immediate attention.
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Mongoose: ISIS Intelligence Manipulated?
Corruption, Government, IO Deeds of War, MilitaryInquiry Weighs Whether ISIS Analysis Was Distorted
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon’s inspector general is investigating allegations that military officials have skewed intelligence assessments about the United States-led campaign in Iraq against the Islamic State to provide a more optimistic account of progress, according to several officials familiar with the inquiry.
Mongoose: Kissinger Telcons — “Blind with Rage” over Israeli Behavior in 1975
04 Inter-State Conflict, 07 Other Atrocities, 08 Wild Cards, Corruption, Government, IdiocyPresident Gerald Ford was “offended” and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger “almost blind with rage” over Israeli negotiating behavior in 1975, according to newly released Kissinger telephone transcripts obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit and posted today by the National Security Archive.
Phi Beta Iota: White House wants this broadcast. We agree. Remember the USS Liberty.