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A small group of beekeepers in Mexico has inflicted a blow on biotech giant Monsanto, which has halted the company’s ambitions to plant thousands of hectares of soybeans genetically modified to resist the company’s pesticide […]

“You better eat everything on your plate, dear. There are children starving in Africa.” How many kids in first world countries have likely heard their mom utter that phrase at the dinner table at least […]

The Chinese foreign ministry strongly questioned the intentions of the United States over the weekend with regards to an Asian territorial dispute that has attracted the opinion of US Secretary of State John Kerry. Chinese […]

Nearly 13 years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the extent of Saudi involvement in the deaths of almost 3,000 people remains unclear — but according to members of Congress and the families of victims, information […]

US sanctions against Russia could force the international financial system to reduce its “exposure” to the dollar, setting the stage for its “eventual demise,” says former congressman Ron Paul. The United States has imposed several […]

How odd it has been to read all those accounts of Europe sleepwalking into war in the summer of 1914, and how such madness must never happen again, against the background of the most misrepresented […]

On Saturday Obama blamed the advance of ISIS in Iraq on intelligence failures. This is reminiscent of the conclusion reached by the Iraq Survey Group as it tried to provided a pretext for the 2003 […]

Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem are reportedly facing a serious backlash from top Hollywood executives following their support for Gaza, which saw the couple sign an open letter condemning the actions of Israel as tantamount […]

Former US secretary of state and potential presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton issued a staunch defense of Israel over its conduct of the war against Hamas, placed full ultimate responsibility on Hamas for the deaths […]

Apparent war crimes committed by US and NATO troops in Afghanistan have gone uninvestigated, leaving the families of thousands of the victims without justice, Amnesty International said in a new report. “Thousands of Afghans have […]