Japan’s New Rights Guidelines Could Help Clean Up Car Industry
New Japanese government guidelines on business and human rights mean that Japan’s car industry should accelerate efforts to clean up their supply chains.
Matthew Medinsky
Less of Everything: IMF Predicts 'Darkening Outlook' for Global Economy
Inflation, strains on food and energy supplies, war in the Ukraine, rising jobless numbers alongside risks of a global recession: these are just a few of the factors making up a “new normal” cited by International Monetary Fund (IMF) Director Kristalina Georgieva on Thursday as darkening the outlook for the
Guinea Stadium Trial to Resume
Exactly thirteen years after Guinea’s security forces massacred peaceful protesters in a stadium, those accused of being responsible went on trial.
Fictitious Annexation Follows 'Voting' at Gunpoint
Vladimir Putin has just signed a document claiming to annex four Russia-occupied Ukrainian territories in Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions.
Google Claims Censoring Italy Election Winner Meloni's Speech Was a 'Mistake'
Google-owned YouTube restored a viral video of a speech from the winner of the Italian election, Giorgia Meloni, claiming it was “mistakenly” removed from the platform.
Spike Protein mRNA From Covid Injections Gets into Breastmilk, A New Study Says
A new study was published on Monday that admitted the mRNA “vaccine” clinical trials excluded several vulnerable groups, including children and breastfeeding mothers. These tests should have been done before rolling out a mass vaccination program – but hey, this is the new way of practising experimental medicine, Dr. Byram Bridle
Yellen: Inflation Reduction Act's Investments Are 'Mainly Geared Toward the Longer-Term Issues around Climate'
During an interview aired on Tuesday’s broadcast of NPR’s “All Things Considered,” Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said that the investments in the Inflation Reduction Act “are mainly geared toward the longer-term issues around climate change,” but it will “significantly lower the cost of drugs and health insurance.” Co-host
White House Offers Asylum to Russians Fleeing the Mobilization
The White House is converting asylum laws into another weapon in its proxy war against Vladimir Putin’s Russia.
Gene Therapy and Human Cyborgs: We Are Being Played Before We Even Know What the Playing Field Looks Like
On 12 September 2022, President Biden signed the ‘Executive Order on Advancing Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Innovation for a Sustainable, Safe and Secure American Bioeconomy’.
Specified in that order is the development of genetic engineering technologies and techniques “to be able to write circuitry for cells and predictably program biology in
Japan Should Strengthen New Business and Human Rights Guidelines
Japan’s recently adopted guidelines on responsible use of supply chains are a missed opportunity to entrench strong human rights requirements in a global business superpower.
Lebanon: Syrian Refugee Apparently Tortured to Death
(Beirut) – Lebanese authorities should transfer the prosecution of security force members charged in the torture and murder of a Syrian refugee from inherently unfair military courts to the ordinary criminal courts, Human Rights Watch, Legal Agenda, Amnesty International, and MENA Rights Group said today. Members of State Security, one of
Guinea: Landmark Trial for 2009 Massacre
(Conakry) – The long-delayed trial of 11 men accused of responsibility for the 2009 Guinean security forces’ massacre of more than 150 peaceful demonstrators and the rape of scores of women in a stadium in Conakry, the capital, is scheduled to open on September 28, 2022.
The commencement of the trial
California Bans Seabed Mining Despite Need for Minerals for Electric Vehicles
The State of California banned seabed mining on Monday, despite the fact that it provides rare earth minerals that are necessary for “green” technologies like the electric vehicles the state will force all drivers to purchase starting in 2035.
The San Francisco Chronicle reported Tuesday: Seabed mining, a controversial practice
Report: House Republicans Plan to Investigate Chamber of Commerce for Supporting Left-Wing ESG Investments
House Republicans are reportedly planning to investigate the United States Chamber of Commerce if they retake the House in this year’s midterm elections over its support for leftist Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) investments. According to a report from the Intercept, House Republicans want to open investigations into the
NIH Studies Conducted 50 Years Ago Showed Societal Collapse Brought About Extinction
William Vogt, Paul Ehrlich, and the others were neo-Malthusians, arguing that population growth would cause our demise by exhausting our natural resources, leading to starvation and conflict. But John Calhoun’s “Universe 25” experiments on rats and mice showed that overcrowding on its own could destroy a society before famine