Lester R. Brown on why the US might have to feed China

Posted on April 26, 2011 by Ralph Metzner

In an article in the Washington Post, published in March, the eminent environmentalist and food policy expert Lester Brown explains the looming food crisis in China and what the global political-economic implications of this are. China is at war. It is not invading armies but expanding deserts that threaten its territory. As old deserts grow, [...]

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Garbo the Spy – True Story of a Double Agent who helped change the outcome of WWII

Posted on April 26, 2011 by Ralph Metzner

I’m not a great fan of war movies, though I’ve sat through countless documentaries and docu-dramas in order to educate myself in history. This film was a revelation, a story completely unknown to me before – about a man who hated violence and couldn’t shoot, who, by his wits alone, changed the outcome of the [...]

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Soul-Stirring YouTube Message from a Mayan elder on the real message of 2012

Posted on April 26, 2011 by Ralph Metzner

Don Alejandro Cirilio Perez Oxlaj is a Quiche Mayan High Priest. Although many history books say the Mayan people have been out of existence for centuries, it is estimated there are currently over a million Mayan living in Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras. Don Alejandro is the elected leader of the National Mayan [...]

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Even the Rain-Powerful Film about the Continuing Exploitation of Indigenous People and Resources

Posted on April 1, 2011 by Ralph Metzner

Even the Rain (También la lluvia) is a 2010 Spanish film about a filmmaker who travels to Bolivia to shoot a film about Christopher Columbus. He and his crew arrive during the tense time of the 2000 Cochabamba water crisis, when hundreds of thousands of poor Bolivians protested the industrial privatization and commodification of the [...]

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Help stop the deadly finning of sharks for food faddists

Posted on April 1, 2011 by Ralph Metzner

(thanks to Manuela and Carsten Essig for this information and link) Every year, over one hundred million sharks are caught and finned alive. Then they are thrown back in the water where they die miserably. Today most of the shark populations worldwide are threatened by extinction. Especially in China, Hong Kong and Singapore shark-fin soup [...]

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Could the Japan tsunami have been triggered by secret military experiments?

Posted on April 1, 2011 by Ralph Metzner

Conspiracy theories about that possibility have some support in an article published in 1999 in the New Zealand Herald: Top-secret wartime experiments were conducted off the coast of Auckland to perfect a tidal wave bomb, declassified files reveal. An Auckland University professor seconded to the Army set off a series of underwater explosions triggering mini-tidal [...]

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