Man-made chemicals have exceeded the limits of safety for the planet. This statement comes from the first-ever major scientific warning based upon a study of the dangers posed by the flood of chemicals across the globe as three hundred fifty thousand (350,000) chemicals slosh throughout the planet. “We have overwhelming evidence of negative impacts on Earth systems, including biodiversity and[Read More…]
by Rosemary Mason and Colin Todhunter The volume of pesticide use and exposure is occurring on a scale that is without precedent and world-historical in nature. Agrichemicals are now pervasive as they cycle through bodies and environments. The herbicide glyphosate has been a major factor in driving this increase in use. These statements appear in a 2021 paper ‘Growing Agrichemical[Read More…]
The herbicide glyphosate – the most widely used herbicide on the planet – is authorised for use in the EU until December 2022. The EU is currently assessing whether its licence should be renewed. Environmentalist and campaigner Dr Rosemary Mason has just written an open letter to the head of the Pesticides Unit at the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA),[Read More…]
The Biden EPA has put a stop to use of the pesticide chlorpyrifos on food crops, thereby reversing a decision by the Trump administration to allow it to continue to be sprayed on vegetables and fruit in spite of an Obama administration order in 2015 to ban the pesticide for public health reasons. This is but one of many examples[Read More…]
Background In 2017, hundreds of small-scale farmers and farm workers were poisoned – and over 20 died – in just a few weeks whilst spraying pesticides on cotton fields in the district of Yavatmal. A key product involved was the insecticide Polo, manufactured by Syngenta. The use of Polo’s active ingredient diafenthiuron is long banned in Switzerland and the European[Read More…]
A newly published analysis in the journal Frontiers in Environmental Science argues that a toxic soup of insecticides, herbicides and fungicides is causing havoc beneath fields covered in corn, soybeans, wheat and other monoculture crops. The research is the most comprehensive review ever conducted on how pesticides affect soil health. The study is discussed by two of the report’s authors,[Read More…]
On 12 March 2020, British PM Boris Johnson, referring to COVID-19, informed the public: “We’ve all got to be clear; this is the worst public health crisis for a generation.” Since that time, we have seen lockdowns, on ongoing government-backed fear campaign, fundamental rights being stripped away, dissent censored, inflated COVID-19 death numbers and the use of a flawed PCR[Read More…]
The British government, regulators and global agrochemical corporations are colluding with each other and are thus engaging in criminal behaviour. That’s the message put forward in a new report written by environmentalist Dr Rosemary Mason and sent to the UK Environment Agency. It follows her January 2019 open letter to Werner Baumann, CEO of Bayer CropScience, where she made it clear[Read More…]
An anthropogenic mass extinction is underway that will affect all life on the planet and humans will struggle to survive the phenomenon. So claims Dr Rosemary Mason in a paper (2015) in the Journal of Biological Physics and Chemistry. Loss of biodiversity is the most urgent of the environmental problems because this type of diversity is critical to ecosystem services and[Read More…]
Agrochemical manufacturers are knowingly poisoning people and the environment in the name of profit and greed. Communities, countries, ecosystems and species have become disposable inconveniences. Corporate totalitarian tries to hide beneath an increasingly fragile facade of democracy. The agrochemicals industry lobbies hard to have its products put on the market and ensures that they remain there. It uses PR firms and front[Read More…]
It is based on a cesspool of corruption that is most probably responsible for more death and disease than the combined efforts of the tobacco companies ever were. It is sheer criminality that hides behind corporate public relations, media misrepresentations and the subversion of respectable-sounding agencies which masquerade as public institutions. The ‘agrochemicals-agritech industry’ should not be regarded as some kind of faceless concept because[Read More…]
For Teesta Setalvad 
UN investigation finds Israeli forces killed Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh with “seemingly well-aimed bullets” 
Remembering Lenin when watching Ukraine today 
Ethnic “Identity-Cards” & Democratic Values! 
Odisha: Police Prevents Visit of Prafulla Samantara to Kapand village 
Adani’s Vizhinjam Port: An Appeal To Chief Minister of Kerala 
CDRO strongly condemns the arrest of prominent rights activist Teesta Setalvad 
Bengal’s patachitra artists paint their way through Covid crisis 
The Sanctity of Life? 
Activists Tell the Supreme Court to “Shove it” 
The Brutality of “Bulldozer Justice” in India 
Bulldozing the Constitution! 
Zionist-subverted University of Melbourne Falsely Defames Anti-racist Jews & Non-Jews 
A Restructured Media in a Post-neo-liberal Framework and its Impact in India 
Salute Association for Democratic Rights (APDR) on turning 50 
Continuing protest by elderly mothers of the disappeared 
US Supreme Court abolishes constitutional right to abortion 
‘Not a Justification but a Provocation’: Chomsky on the Root Causes of the Russia Ukraine War 
The Era of Northern Hegemony Over Mexico Is Coming to an End 
Has the opposition already lost the presidential polls? 
Empty promises of employment for Bihar’s returning migrant workers 
Disconnected Lives 
Afghanistan earthquake exposes disaster caused by decades of US occupation 
Assange was stripped and placed in “suicide watch” isolation cell after British extradition announcement 
Money power of the political parties making a mockery of the integrity of the electoral process 
UK Rail Services Crippled As Striking Workers Walk Out For Second Day 
Nepal Not To Move Forward With U.S. State Partnership Program 
Indian President Idolizes Gita Press That Preaches Enslavement Of Hindu Women! 
Human right council’s resolutions discarded and ignored by defiant Sri Lanka 
BRICS, Putin, Xi, and challenge to the Empire 
Colombia’s president-elect Petro talks to Venezuela’s president Maduro 
Anamika Haksar’s Experimental Film 
Support the Indian youth struggle against the brutal attack and betrayal of “Agnipath” ! 
Is The Congress On Suicide Course? 
Earthquake: USA Must Return ‘Stolen’ 3.5 billion dollars to Afghanistan 
Historic flooding in Bangladesh and Assam 
Top Gun: Maverick: The Pentagon Recruitment Drive 
Cultural Warriors: Why Palestine’s Sports Victories Should Inspire Us 
The Wide Role Brazil’s Military Has Played in the Destruction of the Amazon 
Can the United States Curb the Epidemic of Gun Violence? 
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