Three scholars look at what can be done for U.S. farms, where bankruptcies were already at a 10-year high before the floods this past spring.
Month: August 2019
The 9% Lie: Industrial Food & Climate Change
Ronnie Cummins challenges the widely used official estimate of greenhouse gas emissions from U.S. agriculture.
RAY McGOVERN: Rich’s Ghost Haunts the Courts
UPDATED: It is verboten to utter his name, but a lawsuit and possible declassification of NSA documents could get to the bottom of the Seth Rich controversy, says Ray McGovern.
Labor and Environment Movement’s Complex Stance on Green New Deal
Aviva Chomsky reports on the complexities of labor’s response to the Green New Deal and little-known divisions over the plan within the environmental movement.
How Holmes Would Work the Epstein Case
Given the roll call of high and mighty involved, Michael Brenner inspects the many dead ends investigators are likely to hit.
Russiagate is Dead, but for the Political Establishment, it is Still the New 42
Craig Murray offers a guide to a judge’s conclusion that claims made as the basis of Russiagate are insufficient to even warrant a hearing.
ROBERT PARRY: More Second Amendment Madness
Robert Parry, founder of this site, exposed in this Jan. 2013 article the dangerous & false idea that the Constitution Framers wrote the 2nd Amendment so an armed population could fight the government the Framers had just created.
WATCH: CN LIVE! The Latest on Assange; Plus America and Guns: Episode 5
The fifth episode of CN Live! discussed the latest on Julian Assange and the problem of guns in America.
Hijacking the Second Amendment
The gun lobby has hijacked the Second Amendment, which was intended for citizen militias to provide domestic “security” without a standing army. The amendment is a dangerous relic, never clearer than after El Paso and Dayton, writes Joe Lauria.
For Cliff May, War Pays
About the only thing the Defense of Democracies’ founder does not love about war is fighting it himself, writes Daniel McAdams.