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He confronted agribusiness companies, governments, and extractive scientists. It marked a before and after in the debate on the GM model, confirming that glyphosate is lethal to embryos. It was taken up by socio-environmental assemblies, peasant movements, and indigenous peoples.…

Fighter for peace, defender of indigenous peoples, President of the Participatory Indigenous Consultative Council of the Republic of Argentina, lover of dialogue, declared apolitical, co-author with Araceli Maldonado of his biography “Qarashe. A fighter for his people and for the…

15 May 2024, Quezon City.  The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has warned the public against the purchase and use of three imported spray paints containing toxic lead, a potent neurotoxin that is banned in the manufacture of paints as…

Geneva: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global safety and media rights body, strongly condemns the murder of Ashutosh Srivastava, an Indian journalist based in Uttar Pradesh, on  13 May 2024 and demands a fair probe to identify and punish the…

We are at a turning point in human history, facing major existential crises. The conflict between Russia and Ukraine raises the risk of a nuclear weapon being used to a level not seen since the Cold War. And the climate…

The cancellation of the National Prize for the discipline by the Ministry of Culture has once again sparked controversy. Bullfighting, which is considered part of Spain’s cultural heritage, is once again at the center of the debate in the Iberian…

Reported Ban Risks Undermining German Commitment to Free Expression, Assembly Germany’s government needs to explain publicly if it has imposed a Schengen-wide entry ban on a prominent British-Palestinian surgeon and academic, Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah, and, if so, the reasons why,…

Swiss company Climeworks has opened the biggest operational direct air capture (DAC) plant in the world to pull carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. By Cristen Hemingway Jaynes The Mammoth plant, located in Iceland, is nearly ten times bigger than Orca, its second-largest plant. “Starting operations…

Biden Admin Piggybacks Sinophobia onto Rampant Russophobia. By John V. Walsh At the close of his recent trip to China, on April 26 while still in Beijing, Sec. of State, Anthony Blinken, made an extremely bellicose statement to the press. …

San Roque, Bacon District, Sorsogon City – The Sorsogon Province de Ciudad Eagles Club, BSR II Lady Eagles Club, Kurit Lagting Art Collective, Delta Beta Omega, and the San Roque Barangay Council collaborated to organize a Community Outreach and Medical…