Sam Davis: What’s So Green About Burning Trees? The False Promise of Biomass Energy
Bioenergy companies are clear-cutting American forests to heat and electrify Europe. This broken system harms public health, the environment, and the climate.
Caroline Cox: Why the World’s most popular herbicide is a public health hazard
BYLINE: Caroline Cox AUTHOR BIO: Caroline Cox is a retired pesticide scientist. She was a staff scientist at the Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides from 1990 to 2006 and a research director and senior scientist at the Center for Environmental…
Cuba reaffirms Socialism while it reckons with its Private Sector
By Manolo De Los Santos Author Bio: Manolo De Los Santos is the co-executive director of the People’s Forum and is a researcher at Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. He co-edited, most recently, Viviremos: Venezuela vs. Hybrid War (LeftWord Books/1804 Books, 2020) and Comrade of the Revolution:…
Cayman: Government 2022 revenues top $1 billion, bringing $47.7 million surplus
Grand Cayman, 12 April 2023 – The Cayman Islands Government ended 2022 with a $47.7 million Operating Surplus for Central Government, which is $28.3 million more than was projected and the result of revenues reaching $1.02 billion. The Cayman Islands Government’s…
A criminal attack on democracy: Why Brazil’s fascists should not get amnesty
By Gabriel Rocha Gaspar Source: Globetrotter From all the excited cries echoing from the red tide that took over Brasília during Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s (known as Lula) inauguration as the Brazilian President on January 1, 2023, the most…
An entire decade of benefits denial for vets after toxic chemical exposure?
By Jonathan Sharp Author Bio: Jonathan Sharp is the chief financial officer at Environmental Litigation Group, PC. Headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, the law firm specializes in toxic exposure cases for veterans and their families. Source: Independent Media Institute Credit Line:…
Harvard Business Review article cites Cayman Islands’ Health City as a “disruptor” in U.S. health care industry
Cayman Islands (June 29, 2018) – The Health City Cayman Islands model “is potentially very disruptive to U.S. health care” according to authors Vijay Govindarajan and Ravi Ramamurti in an article published in the respected Harvard Business Reviewjournal. Both professors…
