https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/04/magazine/only-one-top-banker-jail-financial-crisis.html By JESSE EISINGER (INSERT: Eisinger is an investigative business reporter with ProPublica. He shared a Pulitzer Prize for a series of stories on questionable Wall Street practices that led to the financial crisis. Eisinger was interviewed in July 2017 on U.S. National Public Radio. I posted a couple of excerpts from that interview at […]
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/dec/19/jill-stein-trump-russia-investigation-documents Stein says she’s cooperating with investigation into Russian interference 2016 presidential hopeful attended 2015 dinner with Putin sponsored by RT Jill Stein ran against Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton as the candidate of the Green party and received about 1% of the vote. Photograph: Dominick Reuter/Reuters The Senate intelligence committee has asked for documents […]
The Minerva Initiative (American Dept of Defence (DoD)). My original source of information, an American Dept of Defence (DoD) URL, no longer valid. (for the record – the old URL – – http://minerva.dtic.mil/overview.html) But keep reading. Minerva was re-branded, it has a new website. From the old one: The Minerva Initiative is a Department of […]
RELATED: The Minerva Initiative https://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/jun/12/pentagon-mass-civil-breakdown Social science is being militarised to develop ‘operational tools’ to target peaceful activists and protest movements The Pentagon is funding social science research to model risks of “social contagions” that could damage US strategic interests. Photograph: Jason Reed/REUTERS Nafeez Ahmed A US Department of Defense (DoD) research programme […]
http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-november-21-2017-1.4410676 stories from this episode 94-year-old podcaster Harry Leslie Smith says he’ll ‘drop dead’ before he stops fighting for equality Harry Leslie Smith says he’s seen humanity at its best — and worst. The 94-year-old has lived through poverty, war and the Great Depression and warns a younger generation to heed his message: Don’t […]
View this email in your browser Global Development And Environment Institute at Tufts University Restoring Public Control of Public Goods: Reconstruction, not “Deconstruction” Conference October 2017 On October 5-7, researchers, policy makers, and activists gathered for a conference on “Restoring Public Control of Public Goods”, sponsored by GDAE and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF). The […]
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/06/13/bilderberg-2015-guest-list-invited_n_7576766.html by Jennifer MacMillan, The Huffington Post Canada (There’s a good video at the top of the Huff Post article. Please go to the URL if you wish – – the following is a copy of the text only.) It’s likely the most exclusive gathering of powerful people in the world, and you’ve […]
EU on brink of historic decision on pervasive glyphosate weedkiller (Monsanto, roundup), The Guardian. Oct 24, very good article. Update, Oct 25, the EU temporarily dodged the bullet (again). AVAAZ and other organizations have successfully campaigned, mobilizing millions of people to stop the poisoning. We have been active on this file through the years. There […]
By DANNY HAKIM The reputation of Roundup, whose active ingredient is the world’s most widely used weed killer, took a hit on Tuesday when a federal court unsealed documents raising questions about its safety and the research practices of its manufacturer, the chemical giant Monsanto. Roundup and similar products are used around the world […]
For immediate release NZ joins the trend for countries to say no to ISDS, must hold firm in the TPPA ‘Yesterday’s announcement that the new government has heeded widespread concerns and taken investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) off the table in future trade and investment negotiations is a major step forward’, says University of […]