Chris Malore

Thousands of acres of US forests have been sprayed with a notorious chemical linked to cancer, as outrage and fear grow that the money-making scheme will lead to a booming health crisis.

The US Forest Service (USFS) has been actively spraying the herbicide glyphosate over national forests in California and throughout the South for years, wiping out native shrubs, wildflowers, grasses and plants that naturally regrow after wildfires.

Government officials have been doing this to clear space for commercially valuable conifer trees such as Douglas fir and sugar pine, which grow fast and are used to make timber and lumber for construction, furniture, paper and other products.

However, glyphosate is the main ingredient in Roundup, a popular weed and grass killer heavily scrutinized for its alleged impact on human health. The World Health Organization (WHO) has even called glyphosate a ‘probable human carcinogen.’

Public backlash has been severe, with one person saying: ‘Glyphosate is absolute s*** that needs to be removed from the market and never used ever again. Cancer-causing madness.’

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While the practice of spraying this alleged cancer-causing chemical over the US has been taking place since the 1980s, the Trump Administration recently gave special protections to companies producing glyphosate and ramped up the government’s forest-clearing efforts.

In February, President Donald Trump issued an executive order declaring glyphosate ‘critical to national security.’

 In 2023 alone, federal records revealed that over 266,000 pounds of glyphosate were dropped on California forests.

USFS sprays the key Roundup ingredient from helicopters flying low and releasing a fine mist of glyphosate over the local vegetation. The chemical kills almost any broad-leaf or competing plants it touches, but is designed to spare the conifer trees.

However, these native plants support insects, birds, small mammals and endangered species such as Pacific salmon and rare foxes. This creates large ‘dead zones’ with sharply declining biodiversity.

Moreover, scientists have also voiced concerns that the countless tons of weed killer being dropped across the US are now seeping into the surrounding environment and potentially increasing cancer risks for anyone exposed to glyphosate runoff.

The US Geological Survey released a report in 2020 warning that glyphosate had been detected in 66 of 70 streams and rivers near land that had been treated with the chemical.

As of May 5, 2026, the US Environmental Protection Agency has maintained that: ‘Glyphosate products used according to label directions do not result in risks to children or adults.’

The agency added that they disagreed with other health agencies, which have listed the Roundup ingredient as a likely carcinogen, claiming EPA officials found ‘no evidence that glyphosate causes cancer in humans.’

Despite those claims, Monsanto has reached legal settlements in approximately 100,000 Roundup lawsuits, paying roughly $11 billion in damages to plaintiffs who claimed they suffered severe health issues from being exposed to or using the weed killer.

Pennsylvania groundskeeper John McKivison, 49, won a multi-billion-dollar lawsuit against Bayer after he had been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2020, which he and attorneys successfully argued was a result of using Roundup for two decades.

The Supreme Court is expected to rule on Monsanto v. Durnell in June or July 2026. The outcome will determine if federal law overrides state lawsuits that have accused Monsanto of failing to warn users about Roundup’s cancer risks, despite EPA regulations.

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Via https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/outrage-as-cancer-linked-chemicals-are-sprayed-in-skies-over-multiple-us-states/ar-AA237cVC

Sasha Latypova argues that vaccines and related injections are the primary cause of chronic illnesses across all age groups.

She claims that 98% of an individual’s risk of developing conditions such as cancer, cardiovascular disease, autoimmune disorders, and neurodegenerative illnesses comes from vaccines, while only 2% is attributable to all other environmental and lifestyle factors combined (e.g., chemicals, radiation, pollutants).

She also asserts that mainstream narratives intentionally portray chronic disease as having many uncertain causes (“it could be anything”) in order to deflect attention away from vaccines.

According to her, researchers who challenge this narrative face professional consequences.

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This clip of retired pharma R&D executive Sasha Latypova is taken from an interview posted to the UK Column YouTube channel on April 21, 2026.

Partial transcription of clip

“My currently very well-researched and backed- up theory, and this is working theory that I have, and I invite anyone to try to overcome it, is that vaccines are by far the number one driver of all chronic illness at all age.

“So starting from babies into the late 80s, the number one driver is vaccines, vaccinations and other injections such as for example vitamin K shot that they push on the babies at birth. And I can discuss it in more detail but basically people, people always fight me.

“And because there is this propaganda narrative that you have gazillion different causes of chronic illness, it could be lurking just about anywhere. So the narrative goes like this. First, if you ask them what causes chronic illness, you will have response such as we’re baffled, we just don’t know what caused cancer in this 25-year-old, we’re baffled.

“Next layer is it’s everything. It’s absolutely everything. Look at the— in California, there’s a so-called Proposition 65 and they will put stickers everywhere saying this is known to cause cancer. And stickers will be on Starbucks cups. I found them on a package of walnuts. You will find them on cabinetry, saying this is known to cause cancer. You will find them on gas stations, outdoors, you’ll find them everywhere.

“So the message is cancer is lurking everywhere, but it’s definitely not vaccines. Like this person who published a really good study, from the video from CHD that you showed, it’s definitely not vaccines. And if you publish solid scientific data contradicting this narrative, you immediately get kicked out of your profession and prosecuted.

“And then they have other layers of defense. But the data is that the vaccines cause 98% of all chronic illness. The 98% of risk that you personally face of getting any chronic illness, especially serious chronic illness like cardiovascular, cancer, neurodegenerative, autoimmune. 98% of that risk is given to you by vaccines.

“Only 2% risk is everything else, everything you can think of. Glyphosate, trace glyphosate. I’m not saying, you know, if you all of a sudden like sprayed in glyphosate, that’s safe. No, but trace glyphosate that you might encounter in cereals or you know, even the, you know, the chem spraying, the EMF radiation, that has some, you know, some legitimately health risks.

“All of this combined, all of those other things that you think about, all of it combined only contributes 2% to the total risk of chronic illness.”

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Via https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/sasha-latypova-98-of-all-chronic

Bhabani Shankar Nayak

Despite the flag-waving white supremacist anti-immigration policies and propaganda promoted by governing capitalist classes, and their reactionary politics, increasing numbers of people are leaving the capitalist heartlands of the USA and the UK. In the name of reactionary nationalism, capitalism attempts to survive through wars and austerity policies at the cost of well beings of people. However, recent reports suggest that more than 68% of Americans wish to move abroad permanently. The UK’s Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported that 257,000 British citizens left the country in December 2024, and the number continues to grow. According to reports, more than 295,000 people have left the US in 2025.

People are moving to the European Union, Mexico, and other parts of the world in search of peace and a better quality of life. Many are also renouncing their citizenship. Such trends, reminiscent of the Great Depression of 1929, reveal deeper structural issues beyond divisive politics and the rising cost-of-living crisis under capitalism.

Most people who have left, or are planning to leave, the USA and the UK speak openly about reasons behind their decision. Many say that they are leaving because these countries no longer offer a life worth living, but merely a struggle for survival. Working to pay monthly bills has replaced the possibility of a fulfilling life. Access to quality healthcare, housing, and education is increasingly becoming an unattainable dream for the people and their children.

Reactionary political propaganda and the consolidation of right-wing politics have damaged social harmony and internal peace within these countries. The working people are deeply dissatisfied with the rising cost-of-living crisis and the growing social instability that intensifies each day. The combination of economic, social, and political crises has created a toxic culture and social environment in which human well-being and happiness are becoming increasingly alienated.

According to the US Census Bureau, sixty nine US cities are shrinking due to economic destress and population decline. Similarly, major UK cities such as Aberdeen, Bradford, Coventry, Birmingham, Glasgow, Manchester, Sheffield, Hull, Newcastle, and Newport are either stagnating or showing signs of economic decline. London’s productivity growth, along with that of the wider economy of the capital city has been declining since 2019.

Many people in both the USA and the UK feel increasingly insecure about their daily lives due to economic conditions driven by joblessness, unemployment, home mortgage and broader economic, political, and social crises. In the World Happiness Index (2025), the UK fell sharply from 21st to 29th place globally. A similar trend continues in the USA, where happiness is becoming increasingly elusive because of weakening social connections. The World Happiness Report (2026) also revealed that young Americans are deeply unhappy and dissatisfied with their lives. American dream is an illusion. It was constructed to promote capitalism and capitalist dreams are falling apart.

According to the American Psychiatric Association, there is a growing crisis of anxiety, depression, and mental health issues in the United States, where one in three people suffers from some form of mental health issues. Mental health problems affect one in four adults in the UK. The epidemic of mental health issues is expanding rapidly in both the USA and the UK. These conditions are direct consequences of the failure of capitalism led political and economic system to provide a safe, secure, and stable life built on adequate housing, healthcare, and overall well-being for a dignified human life.

American dream and its affiliated capitalist dreams were curated with the ideals of equality, right to live, liberty and pursuit of happiness. These dreams were designed to create a desire based society where people can die by working to realize these dreams in reality. After centuries of human experience with capitalism in USA and UK, it is clear that capitalism is neither designed nor capable of providing home to the homeless, health and well beings to people and economic stabilities to families and can’t provide happiness to individuas.

Therefore, it is imperative to look for alternatives outside capitalist system.  Capitalism ensured profit at the cost of people, their health and happiness.  Capitalism not only produces inequalities but also creates conditions of exploitation of people and nature to make limitless profit. There is nothing called progressive or human face of capitalism. There is no way to transform capitalism. It can’t be transformed. It can never be an alternative for the growth of a civilised soceity free from wars, conflicts and exploitation.

Capitalism is fundamentally a brutal, exploitative, inhuman, illiberal, and undemocratic system designed to generate profit while reproducing various forms of alienation, crisis, death, and destruction and different forms of inequalities across the world. The crisis is not only inherent to the capitalist system but has also become a strategy to domesticate and disempower people. There is no way to humanize a system built on patriarchy, feudalism, colonial and imperialist plunder of people and nature. It can only be dismantled through the struggle of working people to create a new system capable of delivering peace, progress, and prosperity without any form of exploitation and inequality.

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Via https://libya360.wordpress.com/2026/05/19/why-thousands-of-us-and-uk-citizens-are-leaving-their-countries/

Banu Musa hydraulic organ

Episode 17 The Banu Musa (Sons of Musa) Inventions and Automatons

Islamic Golden Age (2017)

By Eamon Gearon

Film Review

Between 750 and 1250 AD there was a proliferation of mechanical automatons in the Muslim world.  These included games, toys and gadgets that washed your hands or poured drinks.

The most famous of the Islamic automaton makers were the Banu Musa (sons of Musa), three sons of a Persian bandit named Musa Ibn Shakir. After giving up a life of crime, Ibn Shakir became a renowned astronomer employed by caliph al-Ma-M’un. His son Muhammad became an astronomer, Ahmad a mathematician and Al-Hassan an engineer.

Between them they created scores of complex mechanical toys and astronomical tables. In 850 AD they published the Book of Tricks, dedicated to preserving ancient mechanical knowledge from Greece, Rome, Persia, China and India.

Among their inventions was a coin-operated vending machine to dispense holy water, the earliest design for a steam powered engine, automatic water fountains that changed shape via differently shaped spouts, the first hydraulically powered organ, the first steam powered flute (the earliest example of machine programming) and a gas mask for men who cleaned polluted wells.

Their work went on to influence the work of Ishmael al-Jaziri, the Turkish 12th century father of modern robotics.

Al Jazari’s inventions included robots programmed to provide guests with towels, programmable on-off switches for fountains, automated water and candle-driven mechanical clocks and a variety of water pumps, and hydraulic systems.

https://www.kanopy.com/en/pukeariki/watch/video/5756987/5757021

Dmitry Orlov

The United States has a long and proud tradition of assassinating or otherwise disposing of leaders it doesn’t like. Over a period of almost four decades, their actions progressed from at least superficially legalistic to downright bloodthirsty and barbaric. Observe the trend:

• Those who are old enough perhaps remember how, in 1990, Bush-père tormented the tiny Central American nation of Panama under the pretext of fighting the “drug trade”, but really to mitigate against his “wimp factor.” American troops killed several hundred Panamanians and caused significant material damage for the sake of capturing Manuel Noriega, a CIA asset. Noriega then served a 17-year sentence in Miami, Florida.

• In 1999, under Clinton, the Americans bombed Yugoslavia and then left President Slobodan Milošević to die of untreated medical problems in prison. Already, very little pretense was made of offering him justice or due process.

• In 2003, under Bush-fils, the US invaded Iraq, installed a puppet regime and hanged president Saddam Hussein. Hussein’s execution was broadcast on live television. The fact that he was hanged as opposed to buried alive, burned at the stake or fed to wild beasts is a testament to America’s abiding humanism.

• In 2011, under Obama, the bombing of Libya began, followed by the brutal public torture and assassination of Gaddafi, accompanied by the mad cackle, right on camera, of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. “We came, we saw, he died!” quoth she.

• On January 3, 2026, the entire world saw Venezuelan President Maduro captured by the Americans and led away in handcuffs, along with his 69-year-old wife, Flores, also handcuffed and with a bruise covering half her face. The next day Maduro was driven around New York in an open van while crowds cheered. Given that he was charged with crimes under US laws which do not apply to Venezuela, he and his wife are, essentially, kidnapping victims.

• On February 26, 2026, in the midst of US-Iran negotiations, US forces assassinated Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Four more members of his family, including his one-year-old granddaughter, were also killed in an airstrike. And so the US has advanced from political assassinations to assassinating religious leaders.

Why do Americans do this? Assassinating national leaders is perhaps the least effective way to solve political problems. An answer to this question was offered some time ago by the journalist Michael Bohm: “Because we can.” This is the same reason that a dog licks its testicles: because it can. The United States consistently records a murder rate 5 to 7 times higher than other developed, affluent nations. It’s just something Americans like to do, you see.

To be fair, Americans can, and do, assassinate plenty of their own leaders:

• 1865: Abraham Lincoln
• 1881: James A. Garfield
• 1901: William McKinley
• 1963: John F. Kennedy

Attempted assassinations also make quite a formidable list:

• 1835: Andrew Jackson
• 1912: Theodore Roosevelt
• 1933: Franklin D. Roosevelt
• 1950: Harry S. Truman
• 1975: Gerald Ford (twice!)
• 1981: Ronald Reagan
• 2024-6: Donald Trump

Donald Trump is a special case because a considerable fraction of the American populace suffers from a certain psychiatric condition that has been termed “Trump Derangement Syndrome.” They would very much like to see him dead, to such an extent that a certain artist by the name of Cathy Griffin even posed with a papier-maché dummy of Trump’s bloodied, severed head.

Just to be sure that I am not misunderstood: I am not in favor of assassinating anyone. I take the First Commandment (“Thou shalt not kill”) quite literally. But as far condemning the acts of murder committed by others, I adhere to the admonition “Judge not, lest ye be judged.” (Matthew 7:1)

In 2026, a supposed assassin managed to nick Trump’s ear. Some say that the whole event was a carefully staged bit of election campaign theater; perhaps in half a century we’ll know the truth, perhaps not. The point is, the assassination attempt failed.

Since then, two more hapless assassins have made their attempts, all to no avail. Considering the state of the Secret Service, assassinating Trump should be a fairly trivial task; and yet he is still alive. Why?

I believe that at some point God has flipped a switch on America. It went from a “can do nation” to a “no can do nation.” Since then, it can’t elect, or even nominate, anyone remotely competent as president (both Biden and Trump were and are clearly unfit to serve as presidents and Clinton-madame wouldn’t have been any better). The US failed to win a proxy war against Russia (in the Ukraine), a trade war against China or a direct military confrontation with Iran. It’s a sad state of affairs, but there you have it.

Should Americans choose to ask themselves “Why is Trump still our president?” the answer is clear: “Because you can’t” do anything about it, that’s why!

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