By Gary G. Kohls, MD (When Trump’s Fascist-leaning, Anti-democratic Collage of Multibillionaires, White Supremacists, Wall Street Tycoons, Washington, DC Insiders, Christian Dominionists, War-Mongering Military Generals, Holocaust Deniers, and Climate Change Deniers Try to Impose Their Will on the Voters Who Did Not Technically Vote for…
By Christina Sarich Humans have long thought themselves to be the smartest animals on the planet, but evidence continues to reveal that even with little shared DNA – animals are catching up, and perhaps even surpassing our own evolutionary intelligence. Some philosophical perspectives suggest that…
By Alice Salles In America, the cannabis legalization movement has been in full swing, with states like California, Massachusetts, Maine, and Nevada joining Washington and Colorado by legalizing recreational weed in 2016. Other states like Florida, Arkansas, Montana, and North Dakota also followed suit, legalizing…
By Andrew Pontbriand As of December 2016, just over half of all states and the District of Columbia have legalized marijuana. The push for legalization has increased tremendously over the last 15 years, and it shows no sign of slowing. While this is spreading from…
(HM) Consumer spending makes up 70% of the United States economy. We all have bills to pay and mouths to feed, but what do Americans actually spend on? Here is a breakdown of how Americans spent their money in the last 75 years (click to enlarge)….
By Amando Flavio The latest marijuana benefits just discovered are that it can treat bone fractures and also help in organ transplants. It is now clear that marijuana has a medicinal value, with some researchers constantly using what little resources they have to demonstrate the point. The results from such studies…
By Brandon Turbeville After a lengthy battle it appears that the people of Florida have managed to pull out a victory against Oxitec and its plan to release millions of genetically engineered mosquitoes in Key Haven, Florida. Typically, the FDA approved the release without adequate…
By Alex Pietrowski Branded as the baby-friendly household product, Johnson & Johnson (J&J) Baby Powder made of talcum powder has been linked to an increased risk of ovarian cancer. The cosmetics industry uses over 13,000 chemicals in its products. Despite using so many chemicals in their…
By April McCarthy Governments around the world consider antimicrobial-resistant bacteria a major and growing threat to public health. In 2017, many more people could begin dying from common bacterial infections as resistance to antibiotics booms. Diseases are becoming untreatable — a situation that looks set…
By Anna Hunt The town of Blackpool, located on the northwest coast of England, began distributing fluoridated milk to about 8000 primary school children, after The Blackpool Town Council approved the program in early 2016. Fluoridated milk is now available via the town’s free school…
By Dave Mihalovic It happens more often than you can imagine, but more doctors are finally getting caught in the act of misrepresenting their oath and fraudulently diagnosing healthy patients with cancer to turn a quick buck from kickbacks on chemotherapy poisons. Why shouldn’t Doctors…
By Catherine J. Frompovich Our do-nothing Congress is fast-tracking a most controversial bill to land on President Barack Obama’s desk before he leaves office, and which he’s promised to sign into law. That draconian bill will mandate and impose many more restrictions upon our freedom…
By Justin Gardner Back in August, we learned through the WikiLeaks email dump that an alcohol lobbying group was peddling propaganda to lawmakers in the attempt to stifle cannabis legalization. Claiming to be “neutral” on the subject, they did not hesitate to spout falsehoods and…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor In late November Nestlé announced it had made a research breakthrough in their chocolate recipes – restructuring sugar in order to cut down on the ingredient by 40%, but still trick consumer taste buds into sweet satisfaction. Nestlé says, “Imagine if…
By Justin Gardner In June 2015 we reported on the re-emerging field of using psychedelics to treat mental illness, with psilocybin, in particular, showing great promise for chronic anxiety and depression. Western medicine began realizing its potential in the 1940s, but medical research was stamped…
By Amanda Froelich This inspiring activist taught himself to knit in four days, and within a few weeks, had created 55 caps to donate to premature babies. They say you can’t teach an old dog new tricks, but 86-year-old Ed Moseley would disagree. In fact,…
By Kurtis Bright Researchers in the battle against antibiotic-resistant superbugs have found an unlikely weapon–one that may leave some feeling as if they’ve stepped into an old Warner Brothers cartoon: Tasmanian Devil’s milk. The Australian research group has found that peptides in the milk of…
By Janet Phelan Conflict broke out on the floor of the Biological Weapons Convention in Geneva on the third day of the three week long meeting, with the growing division between Russia and her allies on the one hand and the US and hers on…
By Janet Phelan NGO provides details to the UN on the US’s offensive biological weapons program On November 9, 2016, the attached statement was made orally on the floor of the Biological Weapons Convention at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. Multiple issues concerning the…
By Kurtis Bright Antifungal Drugs Mostly Useless The ongoing battle against drug-resistant infections has taken a decidedly darker turn as a deadly fungal infection has emerged in the U.S. for the first time–and is proving next to impossible to stop. The infection, known as Candida…
