Chemical Concern In July last year, Monsanto, Pioneer and Syngenta, multinational companies and a number of national firms approached Pakistan’s Ministry of Food Security seeking licences to raise genetically-modified (GM) food...
Read MoreBy Anita Kumar McClatchy DC There are at least six reasons that community college won’t be free anytime soon, no matter what President Barack Obama says. Obama, who traveled Friday to Pellissippi State Community College in...
Read MoreBy Rebecka Roos and Alister Doyle Yahoo News Nordic countries are leading a shift by rich nations towards cashless societies, providing a test case for whether the lower cost and convenience of using cards and smartphones for...
Read MoreBy Julian Ryall The Telegraph Japan has announced new laws to force workers to go on holiday. Japanese workers are so reluctant to leave their offices that they took less than half their holiday entitlement in 2013. The...
Read MoreBy Ian Mohr Page Six Hillary Clinton is “furious” at husband Bill Clinton, according to Washington insiders, after his name came up in the latest sex scandal involving his disgraced former pal Jeffrey Epstein. Sources at the...
Read MoreBy Deb Reichman Huffington Post Republican Sen. Rand Paul introduced a bill on Wednesday that would immediately halt U.S. aid to the Palestinians until they halt their effort to join the International Criminal Court to pursue...
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By Annabelle Bamforth Ben Swann Additional surveillance footage, revealing what occurred shortly...
Read MoreBy Sujata Rao Reuters Billionaire financier George Soros has urged the West to step up aid to Ukraine, outlining steps towards a $50 billion (33.22 billion pounds) financing package that he said should be viewed as a bulwark...
Read MoreClick here for video Kare 11 ST. PAUL, Minn. – A St. Paul exercise teacher celebrated a birthday today. Doesn’t sound like that big a deal, as all exercise instructors DO have birthdays. The thing is, Lauretta...
Read MoreBy Hannah Parry and Jo Davies The Daily Mail A schoolboy on a train was handed a ‘Banksy’ by a passenger claiming to be the elusive graffiti artist. Ben Azarya was handed the signed copy of an iconic print which he...
Read More21st Century Wire Going by the official narrative, which says that the two prime suspects announced by French police, Cherif and Said Kouachi, were responsible for Wednesday’s attack, it seems as if the two ‘terrorists’ were...
Read MoreHurriyet Daily News The government has unveiled a new incentive program to encourage working women to have more children, in a bid to avoid the decline of the Turkish population. Under the new plan, the government is pledging...
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By Sarah Knapton The Telegraph Paralysed patients have been given new hope of recovery after rats...
Read MoreBy Andrew Griffin USA Today The year 2015 will have an extra second — which could wreak havoc on the infrastructure powering the Internet. At 11:59 p.m. on June 30, clocks will count up all the way to 60 seconds. That will allow...
Read MoreBy Pete Williams NBC News After a long day of rapidly changing information, U.S. counterterrorism officials said Wednesday night that they cannot be certain of the status of the three suspects in the Paris attack on Charlie...
Read MoreBy Guy Faulconbridge Al Qaeda militants in Syria are plotting attacks to inflict mass casualties in the West, possibly against transport systems or “iconic targets”, the head of Britain’s MI5 Security Service...
Read MoreBy Robert Parry Global Research.ca During my years at Newsweek in the late 1980s, when I would propose correcting some misguided conventional wisdom, I’d often be told, “let’s leave that one for the historians,” with the...
Read MoreBy Luke Funk FOX News The Space Weather Prediction Center issued a warning for a large geomagnetic storm on Wednesday morning. The NOAA organization said the primary areas that would be affected would be in the northern portion...
Read MoreBy Zaid Jilani Alternet Former Florida governor Jeb Bush (R ) has made headlines for resigning from a number of boards – both non-profits and corporations. The media has widely recognized the moves as aimed at preparation for a...
Read MoreBy Ellen Brown Web of Debt Greece and the troika (the International Monetary Fund, the EU, and the European Central Bank) are in a dangerous game of chicken. The Greeks have been threatened with a “Cyprus-Style prolonged bank...
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