Japan Highlights Chinese Government Rights Abuses

On December 5, Japan’s upper house of parliament, the House of Councilors, approved a resolution highlighting human rights abuses in areas including Xinjiang, Tibet, Inner Mongolia, and Hong Kong.

At UN Talks, Countries Divided on Approach to Plastics Agreement

Delegates from over 150 countries, as well as civil society groups and industry representatives, gathered in Uruguay last week to negotiate a new global treaty limiting plastic pollution.

How people 50 years from now would view us if we halted the biotechnology madness today

It is the year 23 PB (post-biotechnology), or 2076 AD in that old reckoning that few of us use these days … Most historians of my generation, born long after the discovery of the DNA double helix, realise that rehashing the events of the now banished biotech era involves not only

Studies reveal a dramatic decline in Sperm Count that could threaten Mankind’s survival

Men experienced a 50% to 60% decline in sperm counts from 1973 to 2011, according to a 2017 study published in Human Reproduction Update. A 2022 update to the study includes data from 53 countries and an additional seven years — 2011 to 2018 — and the results are alarmingly similar. Sperm

El Salvador: Widespread Abuses Under State of Emergency

(New York) – Salvadoran security forces have committed widespread human rights violations since the adoption of a state of emergency approved in late March 2022, in response to a peak in gang violence, Human Rights Watch and Cristosal said in a joint report released today. The 89-page report, “‘We Can Arrest

Quercetin and Vitamin D — Allies Against Coronavirus?

STORY AT-A-GLANCE As the outbreak of novel coronavirus, COVID-19, continues into its third year around the world, researchers are still feverishly searching for effective remedies, for both the original virus and its substrates. According to a February 15, 2020, Nature article, more than 80 clinical trials were already underway testing

Iain Davis & Jesse Zurawell talk China and Technocracy – Part 2

Following up on their conversation from a few days ago, Jesse Zurawell and Iain Davis reunite to continue their discussion of the rise global technocracy. You can listen to the first part of this interview here. SUPPORT OFFGUARDIAN For direct-transfer bank details click here. Read the full article at the

Iraq: Activist Imprisoned for Peaceful Criticism of Security Forces

(Beirut) – A criminal court in Baghdad sentenced an activist to three years in prison on December 5, 2022, for alleged criticism of the deceased former head of the Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps, Qassim Suleimani, Human Rights Watch said today. On June 6, the authorities detained the activist, Hayder Finjan al-Zaidi,

Fmr. Obama Econ. Adviser Furman: 'Most Likely Scenario' Is Recession that 'Does Not Solve' Inflation Problem

On Monday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Closing Bell,” Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy at Harvard University and the Harvard Kennedy School Jason Furman, who served as Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Barack Obama and on the Council of Economic Advisers and the National

US Supreme Court Case Puts Basic Voting Rights on Trial

Tomorrow the United States Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a very consequential case over voting rights.

Sperm Counts Are Declining at Accelerating Rates Worldwide

STORY AT-A-GLANCE An impending fertility crisis is upon us.

Landmark Study Finds Masks Are Ineffective

STORY AT-A-GLANCE The first randomized controlled trial to assess the effectiveness of surgical face masks against SARS-CoV-2 infection specifically — which journals initially refused to publish — finally saw seeing the light of day in November 2020. The so-called “Danmask-19 Trial,” published November 18, 2020, in the Annals of Internal Medicine, included

Democrats' EAGLE Act Explodes Indentured Service Workforce

The media-magnified focus on Indian workers and immigration “country caps” is hiding a massive corporate giveaway in the House’s pending EAGLE Act, now scheduled for a committee review on Monday and a House vote on Tuesday. The bill “just blows the limits [on the hiring of temporary visa-workers] out

US: Back War Crimes Court in Liberia

(Washington, DC) – The Biden Administration should send an unequivocal, high-level message to Liberian President George Weah during the US-Africa Leaders Summit that a war crimes court in Liberia is important to bring justice for civil wars-era crimes and should not be delayed any further, 10 Liberian and international civil society

Briefing Note on the Call for a War Crimes Court for Liberia

Widespread and systematic violations of international human rights and humanitarian law characterized Liberia’s two brutal armed conflicts, which took place between 1989 and 2003.