By Catherine J. Frompovich As a consumer, when you purchase an appliance, an automobile, a computer, an SUV, a TV—whatever—you take for granted the product has been designed and built for safe usage with built-in safety features or devices in order to prevent malfunctions and/or…
By Haixia Yang, University of Massachusetts Amherst The antimicrobial chemical triclosan is in thousands of products that we use daily: hand soaps, toothpastes, body wash, kitchenware and even some toys. Work in our lab suggests that this compound may have widespread health risks, including aggravating…
By Rosanne Lindsay, Naturopath In our ego-driven, divide-and-conquer world, we live in a duality reality. This reality reflects a matrix of opposites: introvert vs. extrovert, beginning vs. ending, living vs. dying, mind vs. matter, wave vs. particle, self vs. other, material vs. spiritual, on vs;…
By Matt Agorist The Big Pharma giant Bayer has just won approval from the US Justice Department for the $62.5 billion dollar takeover of the agrichemical behemoth Monsanto. The deal, which was solidified on Tuesday, has many people on edge knowing that Bayer, a company…
By Daisy Luther The official death toll in Puerto Rico from Hurricane Maria is only 64 people. With the devastation wrought last September by the powerful storm, many people questioned the veracity of that number. And it looks like they may have had good cause….
By Jeffrey A. Miron New studies are helping us to fully understand America’s opiate crisis. The standard view of the opioid epidemic blames pharmaceutical companies and doctors for excessive prescribing. An alternate view blames government for outlawing or restricting access to opioids. In this view, users overdose…
By Jon Rappoport The key factor is: be a drug company. In this case, Celgene. Their drugs are Thalomid and Revlimid. They are approved for multiple myeloma, one type of cancer. Here’s the thing. Doctors can decide to prescribe drugs for uses which are not…
By Jack Burns Researching aquatic life has long been used as a barometer for evaluating pollution levels, and according to a recently published study, opioids are now showing up in the bays in and around Seattle’s Puget Sound—serving as yet another reminder that the United…
By Brandon Turbeville, Natural Blaze Canada has never been one for Free Speech but the last few years have become incredibly more oppressive in terms of what is allowed to be said and who is allowed to say it. We could write a lot of things about…
By Joe Battaglia New research by the University at Buffalo Research Institute on Addictions has identified a key mechanism in how exercise can help impact the brain in ways that may support treatment — and even prevention strategies — for addiction. Scientists in Britain previously…
By Susan Boskey Cherokee proverb:”Don’t judge a man until you have walked a mile in his shoes.” In my last article, Depression on the Rise and the Cannabis Response, I wrote about how the diagnosis for depression rose 33% between 2011 and 2014, some possible…
By Catherine J. Frompovich During the last two weeks in the area where I live, SE Pennsylvania, we experienced an inordinate weather pattern that had everyone—bar none—talking about it and complaining how extraordinarily oppressive it was: Torrential rain daily with no let up, plus no…
By Mae Chan Some phytochemicals and botanicals have ‘very promising’ evidence for combating cognitive decline, according to a new systematic review of children. Researchers from Poland and Italy looked at studies published in the English language from 1970 to 2017 that explored how botanical ingredients…
By Jon Rappoport A San Francisco lawsuit against Monsanto and its weedkiller, Roundup, is moving forward. And it’s just received a new green light from the judge in the case. Monsanto’s lawyers are bracing for a deep level of attack, which they were hoping to…
By Kelsey K. Graham, Michigan State University Declines in bee populations around the world have been widely reported over the past several decades. Much attention has focused on honey bees, which commercial beekeepers transport all over the United States to pollinate crops. However, while honey…
By Jon Rappoport “How is a self-contained world built? Well, you can take a major situation which has an obvious cause, and then relabel the situation with a new name and say the cause is unknown. Then you can claim you’re looking for the cause,…
By Catherine J. Frompovich Is this little work of “living art” worth saving? (Source: Email Forward) Then stop polluting the planet! Electromagnetic radiation from power lines and phone masts poses ‘credible’ threat to wildlife, report finds Matt Shardlow, CEO of Buglife said: “We apply limits…
By Catherine J. Frompovich According to an article published May 18, 2018 by James Lyons-Weiler titled “Biased Cochrane Report Ignores Flaws in HPV Vaccine Studies, and Studies of HPV Type Replacement,” the Cochrane Group seemingly has lost its once-peer-review-acknowledged objectivity in science reporting! Dr. Lyons-Weiler…
By April McCarthy While calories from any food have the potential to increase the risk of obesity and other cardiometabolic diseases, 22 nutrition researchers agree that sugar-sweetened beverages play a unique role in chronic health problems. The disease risk increases even when the beverages are…
By Susan Boskey Are you experiencing depression? If so, you are not alone and are among the millions of Americans plagued by this mood disorder. A recent article shared new statistical details about how depression in the U.S. is on the rise. Apparently the diagnosis…
