The Invisible oiliness of everything
The Invisible oiliness of everything Preface. Even a simple object like a pencil requires dozens of actions to make and dozens of objects that took energy to make. This is why it is unlikely wind, solar, or any other contraption that make electricity, have a positive return of energy, or energy returned on energy invested. […]
Greenwash
Greenwash An operation of fossil fuel giant ExxonMobil near Chicago, USA [Richard Hurd, Flickr CC BY 2.0] The harm caused by the climate crisis has become undeniable – and terrifying. The floods, storms and raging fires, and the death and displacement they bring, have contributed to a global upwelling of concern and demands on governments to […]
Food for thought
Food for thought Leander Jones looks at the role of community supported agriculture as a 21st-century antidote to the destructive and increasingly fragile corporate agricultural model Members of the Basta community supported agriculture collective working the farm. Image courtesy of Hof Basta. In the past few decades fundamental flaws in the global food system have […]
Expert IPCC Reviewer Speaks Out
Expert IPCC Reviewer Speaks Out Photograph Source: Alexander Savin – CC BY 2.0 Expert IPCC Reviewer Speaks Out Roger Hallam, co-founder of Extinction Rebellion/XR recently interviewed Peter Carter, M.D., who has the distinguished title – Expert IPCC Reviewer for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The interview was conducted to get to the bottom of what […]
New York Times Job Listing Shows How Western Propaganda Operates
New York Times Job Listing Shows How Western Propaganda Operates People who are only just beginning to research what’s wrong with the world often hold an assumption that mainstream news reporters are just knowingly propagandizing people all the time. That they sit around scheming up ways to deceive their audiences into supporting war, oligarchy and […]
Armstrong on Communism 3.0
Armstrong on Communism 3.0
Will The Trump Team Prove A Global Conspiracy Or Will Dominion Sue For Defamation?
Will The Trump Team Prove A Global Conspiracy Or Will Dominion Sue For Defamation? As we detailed previously, yesterday’s press conference held by the Trump legal team was not for the faint of heart. As Jonathan Turley writes, the team alleged a global, Communist-backed conspiracy to “inject” and “change” votes through the use of the Dominion computer […]
Keying off Tyee RCMP Revelations, MP Angus Wants an Investigation
Keying off Tyee RCMP Revelations, MP Angus Wants an Investigation Exposé on Project Wide Awake web spying adds reasons to consider changing privacy law, Angus says. NDP MP Charlie Angus says Monday’s Tyee report showed an RCMP ‘fast and loose with basic principles of jurisprudence and justice.’ Photo via Shutterstock. Revelations in The Tyee’s recent report on […]
Investigation: How Pesticide Companies Are Marketing Themselves as a Solution to Climate Change
Investigation: How Pesticide Companies Are Marketing Themselves as a Solution to Climate Change This article was published as part of the launch of DeSmog’s Agribusiness Database, where you can find a record of companies and organisations’ current messaging on climate change, lobbying around climate action, and histories of climate science denial. “Like a pandemic, climate change is […]
The “COVID Coup”
The “COVID Coup” What we are experiencing is a COVID coup. While Joe Biden (apparently) won the election, the entire process was dominated by COVID precautions and distortions. Nearly 80% of Joe Biden’s vote — according to the exit polls — named COVID as the key issue. A similar 80% of Trump’s vote saw the […]
Middle East Oil Producers Are Drowning In Debt
Middle East Oil Producers Are Drowning In Debt Arab Gulf oil producers are losing billions of U.S. dollars from oil revenues this year due to the pandemic that crippled oil demand and oil prices. Because of predominantly oil-dependent government incomes, budget deficits across the region are soaring. Middle East’s oil exporters rushed to raise taxes and […]
Trudeau’s Corruption
Trudeau’s Corruption
What Can We Do?
What Can We Do? QUESTION: Mr. Armstrong; You don’t sell advertising and you do not require emails to view your site. I listened to your interview and you said you do this as a public service. I think you seem to have the only honest site that shows what is happening globally. Do you think we […]
