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The Attack on our Seeds

Genetic engineering is an imperfect technology. It is a cell invasion technology through which inter-specie barrier is transcended.

(NEW DELHI) - Once again, our seeds are under attack. Trans-national seeds companies like Monsanto, Syngenta and Bayer are pushing GM seeds in India without proper biosafety assessment.

North Koreans` Fear of Freedom

“Could freedom turn into a burden that makes some of us choose to relinquish it, and instead lead a life of submission?”

(ALEXANDRIA, Egypt) - Thousands gathered in snow-bound streets for the huge funeral procession of leader Kim Jong-Il in Pyongyang.

As the hearse passed, I suddenly realized that the real problem of North Korea lies not in its unmonitored nuclear capabilities, but rather in its people and in their ostensible fear of freedom.

Visions of yesterday, today and tomorrow

Put in about one teaspoonful of good spirits, a dash of fun, a pinch of folly, a sprinkling of play, and a heaping cupful of good humour.

(MANAMA, Bahrain) - Have you chilled your bubbly for the New Year's toast? Thought about resolutions you want to make, and will probably break? Before getting carried away with tomorrow and what can make the New Year a happy one, give a few moments to the year only hours from passing.

Agent Orange: Fifty years on, a documentary by Bill Bainbridge

Critics say it’s too little too late for the innocent victims still suffering from the legacy of the war.

(DA NANG, Vietnam) - It’s 50 years since US forces first used the chemical defoliant known as agent orange in Vietnam.

Designed to destroy forest cover being used by the communist forces the dioxin has also had a long and poisonous legacy, causing birth defects in children born long after the war ended.

Barack Obama Takes a Cruel, Personal Shot at U.S. Marines

The Oval Office proves once again that Obama's alliance is toward corporate Amerika and the vaunted 1%, and certainly not with this nation's warriors.

(SALEM) - Salem-News.com readers know that we care greatly about the water contamination at the Camp Lejeune Marine base in North Carolina.

For decades, Marines drank the water along with their families, and they died of cancer, men developed the highest rate of breast cancer for any single spot known on earth, and so many infants were stillborn that Marine moms were at one point, forced to have their babies cremated.

A Closer Look at the Scientific Examination of Comets

Most people do not realize that the comet tail sweeps around the Sun like the spoke of a wheel and actually precedes the nucleus when the comet is receding away from the Sun...

(SAN DIEGO) - In a report from London dated Dec. 19, 2011 titled, “Comet Lovejoy Just Misses the Sun”, the scientists reported:

“Newly discovered comet, Lovejoy, defied all odds when it survived a hellish journey through the Sun’s corona, where temperatures soar to staggering 1.1 million C.

`Time to Attack Iran`?

A Council on Foreign Relations article lacks transparency and impartiality...

(ALEXANDRIA, Egypt) - he council on foreign relations, one of the think tanks seen as a major contributor to the forecasting of the White House foreign policies, has lately published an opinion piece that says “Time to attack Iran”.

In the piece the council downplays the fears of many skeptics who envision the perilous consequences of an attack on Iran tantamount to a WWIII scenario, and therefore refuse to subscribe to a preemptive strike of its nuclear facilities.

US Spies could be Tracking you on Twitter & Facebook

Fake profiles used by Department of Homeland Security, says privacy group, List of keywords flags ‘danger’ signal, DHS may attempt to identify users from their accounts - Keywords include ‘virus’, ‘drill’ and ‘illegal immigrant’

(ALEXANDRIA, Egypt) - The Department of Homeland Security makes fake Twitter and Facebook profiles for the specific purpose of scanning the networks for ‘sensitive’ words – and tracking people who use them.

Simply using a word or phrase from the DHS’s ‘watch’ list could mean that spies from the government read your posts, investigate your account, and attempt to identify you from it, according to an online privacy group.

Leaders of POSCO Resistance Dispatch Open Letter to Shareholders

Resistance hopes letter detailing serious concerns opens eyes of those funding the machine...

(SALEM / JAGATSINGHPUR) - As our writer in India Arun Shrivastava detailed in his recent report, the Korean firm, Pohang Iron and Steel Company or POSCO, is now the Trojan-horse of the western banking and financial cartel.

What should have been an organized, project, has become a loathsome issue and activists say the POSCO money has stifled the good senses of officials with the Indian government, the state of Orissa civil administration, and the police.

Experts: U.S. Nuclear Power Faces Higher Costs, Continued Major Challenges in 2012

Give Long-Term Uncontrollable Costs and Short-Term Pressure from Needed Post-Fukushima Safety Regulations, Nuclear Reactors Even Less Able to Take on Natural Gas, Other Alternatives

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - With the Fukushima disaster, earthquake-related reactor shutdowns, further reactor project cost escalation, infighting at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), and cheap natural gas, 2011 was a year the nuclear power industry would prefer to get behind it as quickly as possible.

But, looking ahead to 2012, experts see continuing challenges that will make it extremely difficult for the nuclear power industry to expand in the U.S. beyond a small handful of reactor projects...