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Tell the EPA to Ban Glyphosate

Click "Take Action" to send a letter to the EPA that contains links to scientific research that is leading experts to believe glyphosate is even more dangerous than DDT.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - The EPA is currently conducting a "Registration Review" of glyphosate. Glyphosate is the active ingredient in the herbicide RoundUp. RoundUp is owned by Monsanto, recently named the worst company in the world by the Natural Society.

The EPA will be gathering data on glyphosate through the summer of 2012 and making a final decision no earlier than 2015.

Ron Paul: `I would like to restore your right to drink raw milk any time you want to!`

Congressman Rob Paul- a rock star in New Hampshire.

(SALEM) - Ron Paul is scoring big points with those who decry government control of food products by declaring an end to regulations on the sale of raw milk in the state of New Hampshire.

The Congressman and Republican Presidential Candidate said, "The drug companies, the insurance companies, they are the big lobbyists and they promote things, and they would also prevent and would like to regulate all alternative care and vitamins and nutritional products and keep people from it."

Tribunal verdict vs. 6 agrochemical TNCs hailed, urgent action on recommendations urged

International organizations and intergovernmental institutions to uphold human rights and the welfare of populations, and protect of biodiversity and ecosystems by subordinating the interests of corporations pursuing patents.

(BANGALORE, India) - Pesticide Action Network (PAN) International hailed the verdict of the Permanent People’s Tribunal (PPT) against the world’s six largest agrochemical companies Monsanto, Syngenta, Bayer, Dow Chemical, DuPont and BASF after a historic four-day session that culminated in Bangalore, India yesterday.

Victims and survivors of the pesticide industry from all over the world, represented by PAN International, testified before a distinguished international jury to indict the “Big 6” for human rights violations.

The Second Bush Plan for a Fascist Coup of the US

News from US Citizens Against Fascism.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - In 1933 Prescott Bush, who made the Bush fortune in Nazi Germany, attempted a Fascist coup in the United States on behalf of himself and various corporations.

He wanted a system like Hitler's and Mussolini's here. He was not executed or imprisoned. The House Un-American Acttivies committee did nothing. The Justice Department did nothing.

Arsenic in Apple Juice and the Sky is Falling

Yes, arsenic in apple juice is a problem, but not so much as the TV doctors would have you believe. A real Toxicoligist dismisses the absurdity.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - A couple of TV doctors started bleating about the DANGER of arsenic and apple juice as if it were a new hazard.

I don't know if my experience as a toxicologist will calm the waters or not, but I am going to try anyway.

Busan summit must not miss vital opportunity to end aid dependency says ActionAid

Currently just 55% of aid worldwide is 'real aid' according to ActionAid’s Real Aid 3 report released earlier this year.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - The international community must seize the chance to put countries in the driving seat of their own development, anti-poverty agency ActionAid says, as the fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness opens in Busan, Korea.

ActionAid is calling for donors to agree to fund developing country government plans which directly benefit poor communities and enable citizens to hold their governments to account.

Jewish Mothers and Senator Henry Waxman`s Threat to their Family Lives

[This article is written to Jewish mothers so mentions only their children but all children and all adults in the US are threatened by Senator Henry Waxman .... as well as by Senator Richard Durbin.]

(LOS ANGELES) - Henry Waxman is going after supplements, again - though they are providing life-saving, effective cures while drugs are killing people.

Why are Jewish mothers in California not angry at Waxman for removing cures for cancers (and so many other diseases)? Do they not know the FDA has been suppressing cancer cures for years?

Saving Nutritional Supplements: A Battle For Nature, Truth, and Life Itself

The Rockefellers involvement with eugenics and genocide are well known.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - We know how hard people are fighting now to save the economy, to stop the wars, to prevent more nuclear power plants, mountain top mining, fracking, and more drilling, to stop genetic engineering, and incredibly importantly - save our farmers and ranchers.

But what is happening to supplements is little noticed but is of ultimate importance. The battle to save supplements is a battle to save nature and the accumulated wisdom of thousands of years of using it to heal.

Genetically Modified Crops - Contamination without Representation

If Oregon allows GM sugar beets to be deregulated, we may not stand a chance against full federal deregulation of all GM crops.

(SALEM, Ore.) - A public hearing is being held in Corvallis, Oregon this Thursday, November 17th to determine if Genetically Modified sugar beets will be deregulated in Oregon.

Meanwhile, the public comment period maybe just a local distraction giving way to full federal deregulation without any representation of organic and conventional crop farmers.

RNC Condemns Attacks on Paul Rusesabagina by Kagame Regime

The RNC calls upon the Kagame regime to lay off Rwandans who have a different opinion than its own...

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - From the moment the Lantos Foundation for Human Rights announced that Paul Ruseabagina was the choice for the 2011 Lantos Human Rights Award for his role in sheltering Rwandans at Mille Collines Hotel in 1994, Kagame’s regime immediately came out with attacks against him in hopes the award would be withdrawn.

In keeping with its trademark tradition of savaging its opponents, the Kagame regime outed its full arsenal of dirty attacks...