Bayer Buys Monsanto — More To This Merger Than Meets The Eye
By Janet Phelan The chemical giant Bayer has just purchased the agricultural biotechnology company Monsanto for $66 billion. This union is redolent of marriages between…
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Too Big To Fail, Too Big To Jail Also Applies to “Remoras”
By Janet Phelan “Basic economics would tell us that it is much cheaper to purchase the votes of 5 or 6 justices every six years…
US: Torture Without Borders
By Janet Phelan An attorney with the State of California reports being gassed inside her home and taken to a hospital Emergency Room, following repeated…
Bioweapons: At the Breaking Point of What We Call History
By Janet Phelan This November, a meeting will take place in Geneva, Switzerland, in a large hall filled with delegates from around the world. This…
Book Review: EXILE by J. Phelan
By Katherine Hine From its opening words of dedication, Janet Phelan’s EXILE hooks the reader with her intuitive grasp of the work’s place in history…
New Mexico: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of … Death
By Janet Phelan Bucking what is now a growing trend in the West for parliaments and legislatures to debate–and sometimes approve–assisted suicide laws, a court…
Gene Editing: The Dual-use Conundrum
By Janet Phelan Dual-use may be best understood by considering the functions of a knife. Used against an enemy, a knife can be deadly. In…
US Political Prisoner Update
By Janet Phelan In a recent US government human rights report, the US voiced sharp criticism of China’s treatment of human rights lawyers and dissidents….
Is the US a Carefully Constructed “Mock-Up?”
By Janet Phelan Those familiar with settings for Hollywood movies will recognize that there is a difference between façade and structure. In the case of…
The Management of Dissent: How to Destroy an Activist
By Janet Phelan While the West, and the United States in particular, has repeatedly voiced criticism over human rights abuses in other countries, the US’s…
Human Experimentation Rampant in the United States
By Janet Phelan In an article in the New Republic in December, 1998, former UNSCOM leader Scott Ritter decried Iraq’s chemical and biological weapons experiments…
Going Beyond the Obvious Horror: 5 Lessons From Flint, Michigan
By Janet Phelan If you wonder how the US could be supporting Turkey that is waging a veritable war on its civil Kurdish population, maybe…
The 2016 US Presidential Election: Produced for Your Viewing Satisfaction
By Janet Phelan Every four years, in an established display of political engagement, Americans line up on the right or the left and the game…
Governor Jerry Brown Shows his Hand – Vetoes Bill to allow Dying Patients Access to Experimental Drugs
By Janet Phelan Within days of California’s Governor Jerry Brown signing the controversial End of Life Options Act, which legalized physician-assisted suicide in the state…