Cecilia MalmstroemEU Home Affairs Commissioner: “The political commitment to really root out corruption seems to be missing” “Price of not acting is too high” The extent of corruption in Europe is “breathtaking” and it…
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The violence on the streets of Ukraine is far more than an expression of popular anger against a government. Instead, it is merely the latest example of the rise of the most insidious…
In his recent annual meeting with the media, Russian President Vladimir Putin replied to a question about the rumored placement of Russian Iskander missiles in Kaliningrad on Poland’s doorstep. He stated that US missile defense remains a threat to…
A phoenix is rising from the Holocaust ashes, a new Warsaw Ghetto is emerging Warsaw Ghetto, Final Picture Today is January 1, 2014. We are far from Israel’s mid-year terror festival, when…
… three times faster than through Suez Canal Putin is inching closer to his goal of turning Russia into a major transit route for trade between eastern Asia and Europe by prying open North…
The EU of social welfare or of generational warfare, the continent of debt-bound economies or of knowledge-based community? Is the predatory generation in power? Why the only organizedcounter-narrative comes as a lukewarm Mouse Mickey – between Anonymous and Pirate party,from the Wiki-leaky to Snowden-picky….
Many US shale companies that have been beating the drums of shale “revolution” are now facing oil and gas well depletion. In February 2013 the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) warned that “diminishing returns to scale and…
Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.—Romans 12:20 “Don’t bother me with the Palestinians. If the…
Snowden’s revelations have put a deep freeze on US-EU relations. Diplomats in Europe are searching for (and finding) bugs in their embassies. Influential politicians speak about this unprecedented betrayal of the transatlantic partnership. The popular German…
In 2012, Professor Seralini of the University of Caen in France led a team that carried out research into the health impacts on rats fed GMOs (genetically modified organisms) (1). The two-year long study concluded that rats fed GMOs experienced serious health problems compared to those fed non GM food. Now comes a new major peer-reviewed study that has appeared in another respected journal. This study throws into question the claim often forwarded by the biotech sector that GMO technology increases production and is beneficial to agriculture.
Researchers at the University of Canterbury in the UK have found that the GM strategy used in North American staple crop production is limiting yields and increasing pesticide use compared to non-GM farming in Western Europe.