SPECIAL REPORT by Heather Callaghan, Editor Kyrgyzstan Parliament just announced its 10-year plan to phase out all non-organic farming and switch to 100 percent organic agriculture. The country that relies heavily on its agriculture has put the final nail in the coffin of Big GMO….
By Sustainable Pulse China is set to introduce maximum residue limits (MRLs) of 200 parts per billion (ppb) or lower for glyphosate in all imported final food products and raw materials including grains, soybeans and other legumes before the end of 2019, according to…
By Sustainable Pulse Tanzanian civil society organisations (CSOs) welcome the decision of the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, Mathew Mtigumwe, to bring an immediate stop to all ongoing GMO trials taking place in the country. These are under the auspices of…
Professor Channa Sudath Jayasumana from Rajarata University announced earlier this week that a group of farmer organizations, researchers, patients and the families of deceased farmers are set to take Bayer/Monsanto and other glyphosate herbicide manufacturers to the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka over the link between glyphosate-based herbicides and fatal chronic kidney…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor It is so interesting how the various powers running the U.S. over the years, with the media serving as “the 4th branch” of government, have projected the idea of oppression onto Middle Eastern countries to an outrageous degree. The U.S. is hush about…
June 15, 2018. Halifax – The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has announced the discovery of unapproved genetically modified (GM, also called genetically engineered) wheat near a farm in Alberta, but says the contamination is an isolated event.(1) “We’re relieved this is an isolated contamination…
By Brandon Turbeville, Natural Blaze While the United States, Britain, France, NATO, Saudi Arabia, and the GCC continue to fund terrorists in Syria, any attempt at relieving the conditions of the Syrian people on behalf of people of good will in the invading nations is consistently blocked…
By Brandon Turbeville, Natural Blaze Fresh on the heels of a report issued by Iowa State University researchers and repeated ad nauseum by mainstream corporate media, the U.S. Congress has issued its own report blaming the Russians for yet another destabilizing movement in the U.S. – opposition to fracking…
By Brandon Turbeville, Natural Blaze The American mainstream corporate media has turned into a literal madhouse in the period of the last two years. Any doubt whether or not mainstream outlets are actually propaganda outlets should have been erased around the time of the 2016 elections….
By Heather Callaghan, Editor Turns out, the American food system is so filthy, disgusting and deceptive that the UK shudders at the thought of trade. How disgusting is it? The American food system is so degraded, that the UK would have to seriously drop their official…
The new German government will aim to end the use of glyphosate herbicides “as fast as possible”, according to the draft deal to establish a new German coalition government published on Wednesday on the homepage of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s CDU party. The draft states; “We…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor Will the first ever GM rice from China make its way to the American table soon? As we reported last summer, Big Agri pulled some maneuvers and made major inroads in China despite major opposition from China’s people. Readers may be surprised…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor A Russian region is literally experiencing radiation nearly 1,000x the norm – but from where? What about the cloud over Europe in October? About a month ago, a “mysterious radiation cloud” was witnessed over Europe, but the source remains unknown, despite speculation that…
By Natural Blaze Americans have an obsession with chopping down trees. Whether it’s over pruning their yards or the corporate paving of paradise to put up a parking lot, trees go down. Trees collapse during natural disasters like hurricanes and fires. In other countries, though,…
By Marjorie Cohn, Jonathan Moore Watching the Ken Burns-Lynn Novick 18-hour series, “The Vietnam War,” is an emotional experience. Whether you served in the US military during the war or marched in the streets to end it, you cannot remain untouched by this documentary. The battle scenes…
By Josie Wales At the Google Pixel 2 event Wednesday, the tech company debuted an impressive lineup of new products, from lightning-fast, high-powered smartphones to an artificially-intelligent camera that can turn your videos into gifs. But there was one presentation in particular that brought science fiction to life with a new device with the…
By Heather Callaghan, Editor GMOs Found in Nearly All of Mexican Corn Products, Roundup Too In case you thought GMOs hadn’t quite proliferated most food products – well, in the 20 years that they have been commercially available for free trade, GMOs have and blanketed the world like smallpox…
By Lanaria Amberkira, The Netherlands When looking at the world today, one gets the impression of living on a sick planet, with sick world leaders in an ailing democracy. It sometimes seems as if the planet has the flu, and no-one seems able to come up with…
By Brandon Turbeville Saudi Arabia’s war of aggression in Yemen has brought yet a new weapon to bear against the Yemeni people: cholera. With the relentless bombing, the targeting of civilians and civilian areas, the destruction of infrastructure and an embargo on food and medicine, conditions…
Is the organic bubble about to pop? When you find a good deal on organic foods, it may just be too good to be true if it comes from China or Turkey. While Turkey is suspected to deliberately falsify its “organic” soybeans flooding the U.S., China…
