23 Chocolate Bars Contained by Unsafe Levels of Cadmium and Lead – Consumer Safety Study
Consumer safety 3rd party, Consumer Reports, recently tested a mix of large and small brand chocolate bars for toxic…
Author: Andy Corbley
Big Commodity Gains Midway through January Even After Another Positive Inflation Report
Markets are betting in different ways as Thursday’s long-anticipated Consumer Price Index (CPI) report showed a small slowdown in…
Poland Seeks to Become “True Land Superpower in Europe” – Adds New Army Division
The Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Błaszczak announced recently that the Polish Army would add a new army division in…
Japan Turning into National Security State with New Defense Plan and Big Guns Budget Increase
Citing “the most severe and complex security environment since the end of World War II,” the Kishida government of…
Europeans Go Mad For Skiing—at Cervinia it’s Easy to See Why
Of the 20 regions of Italy, Valle d’Aosta is among the lesser-known components for everyone who doesn’t like to…
Serbia-Kosovo Standoff Ends as KFOR Takes Down Road Barricades
The barricades on roads in the north of the breakaway province of Kosovo have been removed by a NATO…
Date Palms Built the Modern Adventure Captial of the Tunisian Sahara
Tozeur, a city in the south of Tunisia is probably one of the most unique to be found anywhere…
Standoff in Kosovo Approaches Three Weeks of Near-Total Media Blackout
A crisis with the potential consequence of ethnic cleaning is seemingly being welcomed in Eastern Europe by several NATO…
While Ukraine War Continues Southeast Europe Braces for Conflict in Serbia
After 300 NATO-trained Kosovar military police officers occupied the northern city of Kosovska Mitrovica in southern Serbia/Kosovo in early…
White House Pushes Dem. Senators to Vote to Continue Yemen War
Senator Bernie Sanders (I – VT) has reversed his decision to force a vote on a War Powers Act…
Dahar: One of the Best Regions in North Africa
I’m by no means an expert in North Africa, but as my trip in Tunisia reached a half-way point,…
First Ever Evidence of Male Jaguars Teaming Up—Sometimes For Years—Offers Key Indicator of Conservation
If asked which big cats lived in groups, most people would at least say lions, and at most perhaps…
$858 Billion Military Budget Passes House Promising Another Decade of Costly Arms Buildup
In a 350 to 80 vote, the House passed the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), a mammoth military…
WATCH These Self-Replicating Builder Robots from MIT in Action
Mass. Institute of Technology has demonstrated a self-producing, self-replicating robot can both build more robots and structures in a…
Ukraine Arms Industry Hints at Cause of Strikes on Airfields Inside Russia—US Denies Any Association
On Monday, two separate bases deep inside Russian territory, the Diaghilev military airfields in the Ryazan region and Engels…
Public Debate Heats Up Over Negotiations in Ukraine as Winter Grips Europe
Story at a glance… As winter nears, leaders and lawmakers are beginning to call for negotiations in Ukraine. Other…
More in Congress Want Oversight of Ukraine Aid: Nigeria Says They’re Ending Up with Sahel Terrorists
Earlier in the year, calls to unify the disparate efforts to arm and fund Ukraine led to the Ukraine…
China’s Newly-Completed Space Station Hosting 6 Astronauts in National First
6 Chinese astronauts smiled for the camera when after arriving in their Shenzhou 15 spacecraft, China’s newly-finished space station…
House and Senate Agree to Add $45 Billion to Biden’s Military Budget
A tight-lipped compromise was made recently in Congress that seems to indicate a 2023 National Defense Authorization Act heading…
Disruption of the Gut Microbiome Leads to Binge Eating in Mice
Broad-spectrum antibiotics are widely used in society to treat a variety of dangerous infections, but could they also be…