DISCUSS: UK General Election Before Christmas?
A rapid volte-face from the Labour Party means the UK may be headed for a Christmas time General Election. For those of you following, this is the second proposed...
Golden Rice: GM Silver Bullet that Misses the Target
Promoters of genetic modification (GM) in agriculture have long argued that genetically engineered Golden Rice is a practical way to provide poor farmers in remote areas with a subsistence...
Russian Assets and Realignment as the Dems Morph into Neocons
Renée Parsons As you may have figured out by now, Hillary Clinton, warped by her own self aggrandizement of entitlement, did Tulsi Gabbard and her Presidential campaign against interventionist...
The streets of Barcelona
Philip Roddis One of my most enduring friendships is with Pete, who in 1976 took off to Barcelona and never came back. A passionate Catalan separatist, whose knowledge of...
Libra and Calibra: Mark Zuckerberg appears before Congress
Binoy Kampmark It was never going to be pretty. The Facebook CEO knew in appearing before the House Financial Services Committee to answer questions on the company’s proposed cryptocurrency...
Can the US beat China in a “trade war”?
Andre Vltchek It is very popular these days to talk and write about the “trade war” between the United States and China. But is there really one raging? Or...
The Putin-Nazis Are Coming (Again)!
CJ Hopkins So, it looks like that’s it for America, folks. Putin has gone and done it again. He and his conspiracy of Putin-Nazis have “hacked,” or “influenced,” or...
Asia-Pacific Trade Deal: Trading Away Indian Agriculture?
Colin Todhunter On the back of Brexit, there are fears in the UK that a trade deal will be struck with Washington which will effectively lower food and environmental...
Will the Democratic Party Exist after 2020 Election
Renée Parsons Even before Rep. Tulsi Gabbard threatened to boycott the October 15th Dem debate as the DNC usurps the role of voters in the Democratic primacy 2020 election...
Class Contempt: A Washington Post Reporter’s Prison Diary
Rostam Pourzal Journalist Jason Rezaian, born in California to Iranian immigrant parents, was arrested with his wife in Tehran midsummer 2014 on suspicion of espionage. He had a government-issued...
Bayer Shareholders: Put Health and Nature First and Stop Funding This Company!
Colin Todhunter Campaigner and environmentalist Dr Rosemary Mason has just written an open letter to Bayer Crop Science shareholders and Chairman of the Board Werner Wenning. She has also...
Social Media: Ground Zero for the War on Ideas
Julian Glassford This time last year I cautioned, in a commentary for the libertarian e-zine Spiked, that Twitter’s leadership had finally sold-out on free speech. Much to the consternation...
WATCH: Kentucky is in Syria
"Did you know that Kentucky is in Syria? Or that Tripoli is in India? Or that Caracas is in Singapore? No? Then you must not be paying enough attention...
At the Feet of Mammon…
Philip Farruggio
Mass. Rep Jim McGovern caught in William Browder’s Magnitsky Hoax
Lucy Komisar A member of Congress you thought was a liberal is caught up in a Russiaphobe conjob. His name is Jim McGovern, and he is a congressman from...
A Coalition of Support: Parliamentarians for Julian Assange
Binoy Kampmark Australian politicians, and the consular staff of the country, are rarely that engaged on the subject of protecting their citizens. In a couple of notorious cases, Australian...
The Kurds in Syria
Philip Roddis Attempts by Third World leaders to establish independent control of their economies, in preference to their economies being used as spheres of profit-accumulation for the sole direct...
Copenhagen: Life in the Slow Lane
Colin Todhunter Indian cities are in crisis. Spend any length of time in a large city there and you will notice the overcrowding, the power and water shortages and,...
In Defence of Realism
Frank Lee One of the unstated and extant features of the post-modern age has been the demise of the Westphalian Treaty. This arrangement had in times past regulated the...
Why is Hong Kong losing out to mainland China?
Hong Kong is losing to Mainland China. Its poverty rates are high, it suffers from corruption and savage capitalism. It is now the most expensive city on earth. People...
