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Groceries Really Organic? GMOs Pesticides, Food Safety, Price Markups, and Imported Risks at Major U.S. Chains
by Tracy Turner
Vons, Albertsons, Safeway, Pavilions, Jewel-Osco, Acme Markets, Shaws, Star Market, Randalls, and Tom Thumb -- Declare Organic Civil War On Them All. Low-Quality, Third World "Food" Is Sold As Some "Premium Commodity" By Pro-Zionist Grocers. Your SuperMarket Exposé.
How often have you felt angry or heavily incensed at these companies? Perhaps there is a reason you feel cheated?
Primarily offering USA and North American food with various international and imported food products, including items from developing third-world countries, their store brands include food items from domestic and international sources, also with third-world sourcing also occurring for organic and other specialty items. Albertsons Companies. 2022. Sustainability report. <https://www.albertsonscompanies.com/>. After you read this article --- to really be informed about the Multinational Pesticide Companies and the FOOD THAT YOU FEED YOUR FAMILY, read the Trader Joe's Exposé, to really understand what chemicals you ingest, regularly, daily.
These grocery chains import food from various countries worldwide, including Mexico. They import food items from Mexico, Canada, China, India, Thailand, Peru, and several European and South American countries. Standard imports often include produce, spices, seafood, canned goods, and packaged foods. Specific sourcing could vary depending on the type of store.
Palestine and Israel – From Herzl to Lavender AI Technological Apartheid
by Tracy Turner
Part 1: 1850s to 1940s – Early Zionism, Colonialism, and the Holocaust
The Official Story
In the late 19th century, modern Zionism started as being framed by "returning to the land" following almost 2,000 years of exile. The early Zionist movement, led by figures such as Theodor Herzl, viewed the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine as a necessity for Jewish self-determination and a moral imperative due to the growing rise of antisemitism in Europe. Zionism was a progressive movement for peace, cohabitation, and prosperity in the Middle East.
The Shoah of World War II is regularly used to legitimatize the State of Israel. This narrative necessarily focuses on the plight of European Jews, portraying the creation of the State of Israel as a direct and necessary response to this genocide, a haven for Jews from persecution.
Actual Events
The history of Zionism from the late 19th century is hugely more complex. Herzl and early Zionist leaders negotiated with imperial powers, mainly the British, to secure control over Palestine. These early efforts at colonization were not just about providing a refuge for Jews but establishing a settler-colonial state.
The Consumptive Sabotage Mindset of the United States and the Looming Global Extinction Event
by Tracy Turner
In two previous articles, we reviewed two critical elements of humanity's irresponsible march toward ecological oblivion: the environmental aftermath of the 2024 Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster and the long history of environmental racism embedded in the nuclear energy industry. The first paper discussed continued repercussions of the Fukushima disaster: ecological destruction, health risks to local populations and to the world at large, and how even today TEPCO has continued to play its part in creating this grim legacy of contamination and mismanagement. ("Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster," 2024). It was the deconstruction of systemic injustices involved in nuclear energy, focused on the exploitation of Indigenous communities and other marginalized populations through uranium mining, nuclear testing, and waste disposal, that has seemingly built this global industry on the backs of the oppressed ("Nuclear Racism," 2024). EV owners are investors in “future” nuclear.
One can also realize in both of these pieces how an environmental crisis, born out of uncontrolled greed and ignorance, has brought the planet to the brink of disaster, contributing to the breakdown of ecosystems, poisoning whole regions, and destroying countless life patterns. In this third article, we look further back and widen the lens to look at the mindset beneath this devastation—the consumptive sabotage mindset of the United States and its role in spearheading a global extinction event.
How lies become facts and the world ends
Paul Craig Roberts
Endless repetition by whore media and careless media turn lies into truth.
Whatever media you read, you read that “Russia invaded Ukraine.” The lie is not limited to official narrative-controllers, such as the NY Times, Washington Post, Reuters, AP, Bloomberg, CNN. Wikipedia, NPR, ABC, CBS, NBC, BBC, Telegraph, Guardian. It appears in alternative media, such as the Epoch Times and Breitbart. Indeed, the lie is repeated as fact almost everywhere, in the houses of Congress, the UK Parliament, Wall Street, European media and governments.
The fact is there was no Russian invasion at all. Russian forces entered Donbas at the request of the two independent breakaway republics for help against the US-trained and equipped Ukrainian army and neo-Nazi militias that were about to invade Donetsk and Luhansk. The two independent republics requested Russia to return them to Russia in 2014 along with Crimea, but Putin refused the republics, taking only Crimea because it is the site of the Russian Black Sea fleet. Instead Putin placed his bet on the Minsk Agreement, which kept Donbas as part of Ukraine.
Peace Decides Elections
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War
The United States just held a presidential election between two pro-war, militarist candidates, each of whom could have been expected to shift yet more funding into war preparations, to arm the genocide in Palestine, and to wage and threaten war with abandon. And yet peace was, as it often is, a deciding factor.
Many voters demanding peace were otherwise inclined to vote for Kamala Harris. Had she simply committed to ceasing to illegally arm just one war, she probably would have won.
Many voters demanding peace squinted their eyes hard enough to see peace in Donald Trump. Had he not mixed peace along with war into his word salad, he probably would have lost.
A poll published in May suggested that voters in swing states would be significantly more likely to vote for then-candidate Biden were he to embargo arms to Israel. A second poll from August showed the same (minus Biden). A third poll from September showed the same (for Harris).
Kiribati Has Benefitted from Abolishing Its Military
By Richard Turpin, World BEYOND War
Isolation has not prevented Kiribati from suffering the depradations of colonialism, militarism, and capitalism.
David Swanson asked me to write about Kiribati after I wrote to him to point out Costa Rica is not the only “full-fledged and totally independent country to be entirely demilitarized.” Kiribati, and other small countries I suspect, have no military. In Kiribati’s case this was a deliberate decision taken by the first President and Government of Kiribati as it was becoming Independent in 1979. Like Costa Rica it has almost certainly benefitted from that foundational decision. Many other newly independent ex British colonies suffered from coups and military rule as a result of the British policy of promoting nationhood on the British model: Westminster type parliament, independent judiciary, and a military force. It was interesting interviewing Sir Ieremia Tabai, the first President and a leading campaigner at the time when it was an issue, stating that the motivation was heavily economic – we are a small country with very little money so we can’t go wasting it on buying guns. If only more leaders would adhere to such basic commonsense!
But first of all a bit of an introduction to Kiribati, as most people have never heard of us and even fewer know much about us. Kiribati sits right in the middle of the Pacific Ocean but tending to the Western side. It is the only country in the world with a claim to be in all four hemispheres, north, south, east and west, spanning as it does the Equator and the 180 meridian, the International Date Line. There are 33 islands spread over 3000kms from west to east along the Equator. The population is currently 130,000 and rising fast, with more than half living in the capital Tarawa. The population is over 90% ethnically homogenous Micronesian, I-Kiribati, with its own language and unique culture. Kiribati dance is a unique cultural form and is central in the culture, an integral part of every occasion from the opening of Parliament to weddings, birthdays, and public holidays. It is one of the main ways in which the culture preserves itself, the Kiribati diaspora using it as an excuse to come together wherever they are and teach it to the children.
Nuclear Energy and Its Racial Legacy: A History of Environmental Injustice and Exploitation
by Tracy Turner
The preceding nuclear pollution article, "Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster: 2024 Aftermath, Risks, and Insights, " examined the millennial-spanning consequences of nuclear disasters like Chornobyl and Fukushima, atomic testing, and depleted uranium warfare. The article detailed the health risks of radioactive isotopes such as Plutonium, Cesium, and Polonium and their ongoing impact on the environment and human health.
The Legacy of Nuclear Power: Environmental Injustice and Racial Exploitation
The previous nuclear pollution article discussed extraordinary contamination of soil, water, and food items and radioactive long-term health consequences for the affected populations—especially the "downwinders" who are exposed to nuclear fallout. The nuclear narrative previously discussed atomic power from its origin in the Manhattan Project to its modern applications , which have been thoroughly implicated in racial and environmental injustice. The article covered Chernobyl and Fukushima ongoing radioactive disasters, as Infinity Pollution.
Many consider nuclear power a technological marvel, the prospected clean energy of the future. Still, in reality, nuclear is far darker when we consider its historical and continuing impacts: uranium mining, nuclear testing, and waste disposal. The fallout from atomic development has disproportionately harmed marginalized communities, Indigenous peoples, and people of color. From the development of the atomic bomb in the United States to nuclear testing across the South Pacific and the Soviet Union, atomic energy has been part of a long history of exploitation, displacement, and environmental degradation. Nuclear power, in all of its forms, is steeped in systemic racism, ecological colonialism, and the exploitation of vulnerable communities.
The Message and War
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War
I do see a problem with justifying the U.S. Civil War while recognizing the damage done by of regrettable dreams of vengeance...
I wasn’t going to read The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates because I’m doing what I can to end the genocide and occupation, and because Coates seems like such a nice guy that it saddens me that he nonsensically defended the U.S. Civil War.
I’m very glad that I did read it. I did so because someone led me to believe that in it Coates changed his mind about the Civil War. This turned out to be a misunderstanding that grew out of the fact that in the book he does slightly change his mind about a different — much more popular — article that he had written in the same magazine, one about reparations.
I’m glad I read the book because it is full of useful information and perspectives on the life of the author, on racial injustice, on propaganda, and on rebellion. One insight in particular strikes me, and it is related to what Coates regrets about his article on reparations, namely his use of the example of German reparations to Israel.
When Will the General Assembly Suspend Israel?
By Kathy Kelly, World BEYOND War
The Biblical Book of Job chronicles a string of catastrophes relentlessly plaguing the main character, Job, who loses his prosperity, his home, his health, and his children. Eventually, an agonized Job curses his own existence as well as the god that created him.
Numerous interpretations of the story exist, and more than one version has circulated through the ancient Near East. One version concludes with Job avowing repentance. “I know that my redeemer liveth, and so I repent in dust and in ashes.”
The Latin root for the word ‘repent’ is pensare – to think. ‘Repent” suggests an effort to rethink.
Job’s surprising repentance has been on my mind as calls increase, in 2024, for the United Nations to rethink its relation to Israel as a member state. Increasingly, civil society groups are pressuring Permanent Missions to the UN to eject Israel as a voting member of the General Assembly.
To paraphrase Pankraj Mishra, writing for the New York Review of Books, a stunned world has watched with disbelief as the United States provisions Israel with weapons enabling a mass murder spree across the Middle East.
Trump selects Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence
LifeSiteNews
The president-elect praised the former Democratic congresswomen and said she'll bring a 'fearless spirit' to the intelligence community as a member of his cabinet.
President-elect Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he would nominate former Democratic congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard as the Director of National Intelligence (DNI).
Gabbard, a former Army lieutenant colonel and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, is known for her staunch non-interventionist foreign policy. After leaving the Democratic Party in 2022 over its “warmongering” and “woke” positions, she joined the Republican Party and endorsed Trump’s presidential bid earlier this year.
“As a former Candidate for the Democrat Presidential Nomination, she has broad support in both Parties – She is now a proud Republican!” the statement added. “I know Tulsi will bring the fearless spirit that has defined her illustrious career to our Intelligence Community, championing our Constitutional Rights and securing Peace through Strength. Tulsi will make us all proud!” Trump said in a statement.
