The Bayer-Monsanto Merger Is Bad News for the Planet

Bayer and Monsanto have a long history of collusion to poison the ecosystem for profit. The Trump administration should veto their merger not just to protect competitors but to ensure human and planetary survival. Two new studies from Europe have found that the number of farm birds in France has crashed by a third in […]

The War on Weed Part II: Monsanto, Bayer, and the Push for Corporate Cannabis

California’s “Adult Use of Marijuana Act” (AUMA) is a voter initiative characterized as legalizing marijuana use. But critics warn that it will actually make access more difficult and expensive, squeeze home growers and small farmers out of the market, heighten criminal sanctions for violations, and open the door to patented, genetically modified (GMO) versions that […]

As the War on Weed Winds Down, Will Monsanto Be the Big Winner?

The war on cannabis that began in the 1930s seems to be coming to an end. Research shows that this natural plant, rather than posing a deadly danger to health, has a wide range of therapeutic benefits. But skeptics question the sudden push for legalization, which is largely funded by wealthy investors linked to Big […]

Monsanto, the TPP, and Global Food Dominance

“Control oil and you control nations,” said US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in the 1970s.  “Control food and you control the people.” Global food control has nearly been achieved, by reducing seed diversity with GMO (genetically modified) seeds that are distributed by only a few transnational corporations. But this agenda has been implemented at grave cost to our health; […]

The Key to the Environmental Crisis Is Beneath Our Feet

The Green New Deal resolution that was introduced into the U.S. House of Representatives in February hit a wall in the Senate, where it was called unrealistic and unaffordable. In a Washington Post article titled “The Green New Deal Sets Us Up for Failure. We Need a Better Approach,” former Colorado governor and Democratic presidential candidate John […]

California Water Wars: Another Form of Asset Stripping?

In California’s epic drought, wars over water rights continue, while innovative alternatives for increasing the available water supply go untapped. Wars over California’s limited water supply have been going on for at least a century. Water wars have been the subject of some vintage movies, including the 1958 hit The Big Country starring Gregory Peck, […]

Diary of Talks and Interviews, 2015 and Before

–2015– 876. Dec. 30, interview with George Noory, Coast to Coast AM, 10 pm PST 875. Dec. 19, interview with Tom Allen, This Week in Money. Listen to archive <a href=”https://youtu.be/9l0ZVzYlCzc”>here</a&gt;. 874. Dec. 17, interview with Tom Kiely, INN World Report, 4:30 pm PDT 873. Dec. 9, Ellen interviews Independent Presidential Candidate Scott Smith on […]

Speaking

Older Interviews and Presentations — 2007 thru 2017   January 2018 to the present: see home page, righthand column. — 2017 — 964. Interview with Eleanor Goldfield, Act Out! show,  occupy.com/actout freespeech.org/actout  to be aired later. 963. Nov. 17, Interview with Sarah Westall, Business Game Changers with Sarah Westall, Sarawestall.com 962.  Nov. 13, interview with Scott Harris, […]