Researcher: Roundup or Roundup-Ready Crops May Be Causing Animal Miscarriages and Infertility (Dr. Don Huber)

(farmandranchfreedom.org) -- One of the nation’s senior scientists alerted the federal government to a newly discovered organism that may have the potential to cause infertility and spontaneous abort ...

Deaf dog gets sign language training (Kevin Murphy)

Feb. 9, 2011 -- KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - A dog who couldn't hear has learned some sign language thanks to inmates at a U.S. prison and children at a school for the deaf. Inmates at a Missour ...

Planet Overkill (Mickey Z.)

Mickey Z. -- World News Trust "Everything in excess is opposed to nature." --Hippocrates Jan. 14, 2011 -- Back in the Cold War days, a useful myth was that of extreme Soviet supremacy. Surely, if the ...

Ain't That America (David Glenn Cox)

David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust Jan. 12, 2011 -- I've heard through the grapevine that the media feeding frenzy is in full swing. The shooting. The shooting! The shooting. But the shooting is onl ...

A note from Joe Bageant -- Update Feb. 12

Jan. 4, 2011 -- Dear friends, associates and fellow travelers, As you may or may not know, I have been struck down by an extremely serious form of cancer. Presently I am back in the United States rec ...

The Stench of US Economic Decay Grows Stronger (Paul Craig Roberts)

Nov. 29, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- On Thanksgiving eve the English language China Daily and People’s Daily Online reported that Russia and China have concluded an agreement to abandon the ...

Global Poverty Doubled since 1970s: UN (Agence France-Presse)

Nov. 26, 2010 -- GENEVA (Agence France-Presse) -- The number of very poor countries has doubled in the last 30 to 40 years, while the number of people living in extreme poverty has also grown two-fol ...

Peak Energy, Climate Change, and the Collapse of Global Civilization (Tariel Mórrígan)

Global Climate Change, Human Security & Democracy -- Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies University of California, Santa Barbara -- October 2010 Nov. 21, 2010 -- This is the final chapt ...

Nearly 1 in 5 Americans Had Mental Illness in 2009 (Reuters)

Nov. 19, 2010 CHICAGO (Reuters) -- More than 45 million Americans, or 20 percent of U.S. adults, had some form of mental illness last year, and 11 million had a serious illness, U.S. government resea ...

Food prices may rise by up to 20%, warns UN (John Vidal)

Prices of wheat, maize and many other foods traded internationally have risen by up to 40% in just a few months. Photograph: Simon Maina/AFP/Getty Images Poor harvests put global food reserves under ...

Land of the Food Insecure: Record Rates of Hunger in US

Nov. 16, 2010 (BBC News) -- Almost 15 percent of US households experienced a food shortage at some point in 2009, a government report has found. US authorities say that figure is the highest they hav ...