Compiled by Patricia Burke with Sarah Aminoff of Safe Tech International (Top images source: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250284297/cobaltred) “Never in human history has there been so much suffering that generated so much profit that directly touched the lives of more people around the world.” Siddharth Kara’s new book is…
By Mac Slavo Uganda decided on Saturday to extend a three-week lockdown in two districts at the center of an Ebola outbreak. This virus, which has claimed over 50 lives, is still spreading as the ruling class insists on curbing travel and closing public places….
By Mac Slavo Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has declared an immediate three-week lockdown in two high-risk districts of the country. This comes as healthcare workers are fighting a rise in Ebola infections. Curfews will also be imposed. He added that places of worship, bars, gyms,…
By Mac Slavo Travelers flying from Uganda will be funneled to one of five United States airports so they can be screened for Ebola amid an outbreak in that African country, federal officials announced Thursday. Nigeria has also been put on alert as the outbreak…
By Neenah Payne “Living high on the hog” refers to eating the best and costliest cuts of a pig such as the loin rather than lower parts such as the feet, knuckles, hocks, belly, and jowls which were given to Blacks during slavery. So, “living…
By Neenah Payne Dr. Joseph Mercola’s 7/10/22 article “The Shocking Truth About the Global Depopulation Agenda” was deleted for political reasons. Parts of its interview with Mary Holland, president and chief legal counsel for Children’s Health Defense and Dr. Andrew Wakefield are copied below. “Panafrican…
By Tyler Durden In an attempt to encourage African nations to stop buying Russian fertilizer, the European Union developed a working plan that would help then develop their own fertilizer plants. The draft, dated June 15 and prepared by aides of European Council President Charles…
By Tyler Durden Just a day after announcing that the unvaccinated would lose all basic human rights, the Austrian government took it a stage further and ruled that the entire country would lose its basic human rights. Back to a nationwide lockdown to control a…
By Jessica Corbett Following decades of protests and demands over the damage done, Royal Dutch Shell on Wednesday finally agreed to pay $111 million for oil spills that have polluted Nigerian communities for more than a half-century. “They ran out of tricks and decided to…
By GRAIN The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has spent nearly US$6 billion over the past 17 years trying to improve agriculture, mainly in Africa. This is a lot of money for an underfunded sector, and, as such, carries great weight. To better understand how…
By Nick Perry Just after dawn, Tolstoy lumbers into view. A wandering giant, with tusks almost scraping the earth, this great elephant has roamed beneath Mount Kilimanjaro for nearly 50 years. He has survived ivory poachers, spear attacks and terrible drought, but the mighty bull…
By Michael Snyder The locusts are back, and they are hungry. Last year, an unprecedented plague of locusts devastated crops in eastern Africa, across the Middle East and throughout much of Asia. Many were hoping that it would just be a one year phenomenon, but…
By Neenah Payne When Foster Gamble and Kimberly Carter Gamble released the 2011 documentary Thrive: What On Earth Will It Take?, it became one of the most widely seen films. The Gambles created the Thrive Movement with its 13 Sectors to help people around the…
By Phillip Schneider Tanzania’s recently appointed Agricultural Minister has announced a second cancellation of field research trials of genetically modified maize in order to preserve local diversity of African seed. In 2018, Tanzania’s previous Agricultural Minister Mathew Mtigumwe put a temporary ban on all GMO…
By Andrea Germanos Global environmental justice campaigners heralded a Dutch court’s ruling Friday that Royal Dutch Shell’s Nigerian subsidiary must pay punitive restitution to Nigerian villages for oil spill contamination that brought death, illness, and destruction to Nigerian farmers and communities. “After 13 years, justice!”…
By 21st Century Wire This really should be one of the biggest scandals in public health, but it’s given little attention – mainly because of the high-profile nature of the people and organizations involved. The United Nations has been forced to admit that a major international…
By Brian Shilavy Testing on an experimental COVID vaccine began on 2000 “volunteers” in South Africa this week, and protesters gathered at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. This is the Oxford University’s coronavirus vaccine trial from the UK, funded heavily by the World…
By Alexander Hammond In late March, most African states copied the approach taken by many countries worldwide and implemented a mass lockdown that saw schools close, curfews put in place, and people largely confined to their homes. In Sub-Saharan Africa—the world’s poorest region—these lockdowns have…
By Amanda Lichtenstein Check out Global Voices’ special coverage of the global impact of COVID-19. The mad rush by scientists and researchers to test potential treatments for COVID-19 in scientific trials has revived a heated debate over the use of humans in critical drug trials in…
By Neenah Payne “The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.” — Thomas Jefferson. Beans and rice are a daily staple in all Caribbean as well as Central and South American countries – for breakfast,…
