Watchdog groups sounded alarms on Monday after the Wall Street Journal reported that the proposed mega-merger of Bayer and Monsanto has cleared its final regulatory hurdle in the United States. Continue reading
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With ‘merger from hell’ reportedly approved by DOJ, warnings of agrichemical chokehold on food system
Watchdog groups raise concerns after Wall Street Journal reports that Bayer's bid to acquire Monsanto has been approved.
From Skripal to chemical attack: What accusation is next?
Einstein said that the definition of insanity is to continue doing the same thing and expect different results. Isn’t this what the Russian government is doing when it continues to respond to false accusations and expects facts to have any bearing on the matter? Continue reading
Immigrant humanism vs. immigration capitalism
Language has been a concern ever since humans created it and began using words to replace grunting, howling or shrieking. It’s much easier to be clear in communication when speaking, assuming the language is mutually understood, rather than simply gesturing or making barely intelligible noises. But when indicating difficulty in communicating with someone was once referred to as an experience like “talking to a wall,” present political discourse about immigrants and immigration among people who supposedly speak the same language has become divisive screeching in a “tower of babble.” This is a weapon for minority dominating powers who keep humans in a condition of confusion in order to continue ruling out any notion of a state of democracy, another concept widely confusing and misunderstood. Continue reading
Official Skripal story beggars belief
The UK’s behaviour has been oddly secretive from the start with Russia being accused of the crime within hours
Have I got a scoop for you! It has come to my attention that a British minister asked the prime minister “Why don’t you expel 70 Russian diplomats? That has been our practice in the past when we want to ensure the press loses interest in something. Continue reading
U.S. and its press lie Americans into invasions routinely
The 2003 invasion of Iraq is the best-known example of America’s government and press lying to fool the public into invading a foreign country that actually posed no threat to U.S. national security (so that America’s Defense Department was obviously America’s Aggression Department, and even its very name was a lie). However, that fraud and its resulting mega-violence were unfortunately typical, not at all exceptional, for the brutal American regime. This crucial but ugly fact will be documented here, so as to destroy (by clear facts) the lying U.S. regime’s supposed credibility—and this refers to both the Republican Party and the Democratic Party wings (and their ‘news’ media), of our ruling aristocracy. (Same for America’s lapdog, UK.) Continue reading
The truth about an untethered Trump
The petulant adolescent in the White House—who has replaced most of the adults around him with raging sycophants and has demoted his chief of staff, John Kelly, to lapdog—lacks adequate supervision. Continue reading
Br’er Trump burrowed in his White House briar patch
What connection does Donald Trump have with Br’er Rabbit in Joel Harris’s Uncle Remus folktale about a rabbit that tricked a fox into throwing him in a briar patch? Continue reading
A shiny new tool to pad profits: Stealing
From making workers deliver packages off-hours to pocketing their tips, corporate greed is turning theft into business as usual.
Workplace exploitation is at least as old as the industrial revolution. But rather than using whips to make the assembly lines move ever faster, today’s corporate exploiters use technology, devious work schedules, and lobbyists to extract more work from employees—for less pay. Continue reading
Now, with a donation of $10 or more to Intrepid Report, receive a copy of ‘The Book of Healing’
Get beyond corporate medicine to natural healing. The best medicine in the world is in John Balkwill’s The Book of Healing in a concise, easy to read, 27-page .pdf format. Continue reading
The Bayer-Monsanto merger is bad news for the planet
Two new studies from Europe have found that the number of farm birds in France has crashed by a third in just 15 years, with some species being almost eradicated. The collapse in the bird population mirrors the discovery last October that over three quarters of all flying insects in Germany have vanished in just three decades. Insects are the staple food source of birds, the pollinators of fruits, and the aerators of the soil. Continue reading
Skripal-Novichok case: Hiding UK-U.S. lies gets top priority
The U.S. and its allies have been successful in hiding the basis on which Russian diplomats were expelled from their countries—expelled on still-undocumented accusations that Russia’s government was behind the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury England on March 4. On Wednesday, April 4, the Executive Council of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said no to Russia’s proposal for an OPCW investigation into the source of the toxin that was used in the attack. Fourteen of the 41 OPCW countries endorsed an investigtion; 9 abstained; 17 opposed; 1 absented. Continue reading
Freedom Rider: Israeli meddling and Palestinian death
On March 30, 2018 the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) committed cold-blooded murder in Gaza. Thousands of unarmed Palestinians marched peacefully to protest the occupation and declare their right to return to their homeland. The Great Return March was met with gunfire and 18 people died. Continue reading
Rim Banna and the cultural war that Palestinians must win
Rim Banna passed away at the age of 51. Her death on March 24, after a decade-long battle with cancer, brought grief to Palestinians everywhere. Continue reading
Lest we ever forget, three lists for Donald Trump
You may know this famous old political joke, but please indulge my current fantasy. Continue reading
Now, with a donation of $10 or more to Intrepid Report, receive a copy of ‘The Book of Healing’
Get beyond corporate medicine to natural healing. The best medicine in the world is in John Balkwill’s The Book of Healing in a concise, easy to read, 27-page .pdf format. Continue reading
U.S.-Mexico commission fails to stop sewage plaguing border
The Trump administration is backing away from treaty mandate to “give preferential attention to the solution of all border sanitation problems.”
LAREDO, Texas — Tom Vaughan steers his two-person kayak across the 50-yard-wide Rio Grande River to an inlet on the Mexican side of the river. On either side of the creek plastic bags, diapers and shredded clothing dangle from the shrubs, providing a warning of the hazard ahead. Continue reading
The Lebanon/Israel border: Reasons for peace . . . excuses for war!
“No pictures!” growls a burley Lebanese Army captain, looking me deliberately in the eyes from not three feet away across his major’s desk, while pointing directly at my Nikon. “No pictures!” he repeats, now staring at my translator. Since we are both seated in his office deep within the heavily armed perimeter of the Army’s southern command, scores of heavily armed soldiers all around us, and these being the only words of English so far spoken by him, there was no doubting his sincerity on this point. Continue reading
How many people has the U.S. killed in its post-9/11 wars?
Part 2: Afghanistan and Pakistan
In the first part of this series, I estimated that about 2.4 million Iraqis have been killed as a result of the illegal invasion of their country by the United States and the United Kingdom in 2003. I turn now to Afghan and Pakistani deaths in the ongoing 2001 U.S. intervention in Afghanistan. In part three, I will examine U.S.-caused war deaths in Libya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen. According to Ret. U.S. General Tommy Franks, who led the war against the Taliban in Afghanistan in reaction to 9/11, the U.S. government does not keep track of civilian casualties that it causes. “You know, we don’t do body counts,” Franks once said. Whether that’s true or a count is covered up is difficult to know. Continue reading
Skripal incident big lie unraveling in plain sight
Whoever dreamed up the scheme should be fired for disinformation incompetence—falsely blaming Russia for what lack of evidence proves otherwise. Continue reading
America hasn’t learned a thing: Racism, materialism and militarism still reign supreme
I was sitting in a crowded bar, drinking a beer, when the news broke that Martin Luther King Jr. had been shot and killed. Continue reading
Raw deal: Decades of sewage overflows and health problems plague two Arizona border towns
Mystery untreated sewage appears in Mexico just across the border from an Arizona wastewater-treatment plant, city official says.
DOUGLAS, Ariz.—Public Works director Lynn Kartchner guides his city pickup truck down the overgrown, littered alleys of the Bay Acres mobile-home community in search of raw sewage. Continue reading
How many millions of people have been killed in America’s post-9/11 wars?
Part One: Iraq
How many people have been killed in America’s post-9/11 wars? I have been researching and writing about that question since soon after the U.S. launched these wars, which it has tried to justify as a response to terrorist crimes that killed 2,996 people in the U.S. on September 11, 2001. Continue reading
There are unjust laws just as there are unjust men
Gandhi is right in equating unjust laws with unjust men. Unjust men motivated by a need to assert power in the face of their own feelings of inferiority will use the law to suit their pursuit of public attention for ill-formulated causes. They put an imaginary notion of justice above truth, blindly adhering to the view that truth is a matter of perspective. What I call an unjust law is not only that which gives the powerful an escape route when they are caught committing unlawful acts as is usually the case with how lawyers are able to twist and turn the interpretation of evidence to weaken the truth. Continue reading
Dollars for decency
Last week, Laura Ingraham, Fox News’s queen of snark, tweeted that David Hogg—a 17-year-old who survived the mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, and has been among the eloquent advocates for gun control—“whines about” being rejected by four universities he applied to. She linked to an article from the Daily Wire calling him a “gun rights provocateur.” Continue reading
Melting pots, new identities and flowering barbarism
In 1987, V.S. Naipaul was asked by Andrew Robinson, “Have the immigrants from Asia and the Caribbean changed British life?” Continue reading
Communities in US and Mexico at risk from sewage, pollution and disease
President Trump and Congress ignore the nation’s poorest residents along the U.S.-Mexican border, where an environmental health crisis threatens millions of lives.
IMPERIAL BEACH, Calif.—U.S. Border Patrol Agent Christopher Harris steers his truck along the hilly road next to the border fence separating this beach community in the extreme southwest corner of the U.S. from Tijuana, Baja California’s largest city. Continue reading
Trump’s perverse incestuous behavior and his upcoming downfall
Most attorneys would jump at the chance to represent the president of the United States, either as White House counsel or privately. To do so can elevate a lawyer to the upper ranks of a handful of attorneys who can name their own rates and choose their own clients. However, in the case of Donald Trump, a combination of his own disagreeable personality, failure to pay his attorneys’ fees, perverted sexual history, and conflicts of interest have turned him into a pariah as a client for most lawyers. Continue reading
Freedom Rider: Stephan House, Draylen Mason, Stephon Clark: Terror victims
The word terrorism is both over used and useless. It generally refers to the actions of the American government’s political enemies. It is rarely used to describe the wanton killing that is committed by this state or accepted by the dictates of white supremacy. Continue reading
The psychopathic political leaders don’t care who or what they hurt
This morning I’ve been re-reading a Kurt Vonnegut book I first read a few years ago. I’m revisiting it, because lately I’ve been thinking about the fact that human beings ought to protect nature, while the most powerful politicians and corporate leaders in the world ravage and pollute the environment without conscience. Continue reading
Going out
Someday it will come for our pale blue dot. The sun is scheduled to lose its fire in about four or five billion years, our lush green earth—or what’s left of it by that time—will grow cold forever. Continue reading
Worry at NSA that Kushner gave away the store to Israel
There are increasing worries that Donald Trump’s special adviser and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, specifically requested Top Secret intelligence files to pass gleaned information to Israeli intelligence. WMR has learned from knowledgeable sources that Kushner’s compromise of National Security Agency and allied FIVE EYES partners’ intercepts of foreign leaders led to his losing his temporary access to Top Secret/Special Compartmented Information (SCI). Continue reading
Why Israel feels threatened by popular resistance in Palestine
Posted on April 11, 2018 by Ramzy Baroud
Why did Israel kill many unarmed Gaza protesters and wound over 2,000 on Friday, March 30, and on the following days, when they clearly posed no threat to Israeli soldiers? Continue reading →