Posted by John Rosenthal
The leaking of the East Anglia “Climategate” e-mails and data last November shattered the appearance of a scientific consensus on supposed “man-made global warming” and provided a disturbing insight into the corruption of the scientific process as it relates to the “man-made global warming” hypothesis. But just who or what had corrupted the science in [...]
Posted by John Rosenthal
President Obama’s recess appointment of Donald Berwick to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has sparked controversy for, among other reasons, Berwick’s connections to the Massachusetts-based advocacy group Physicians for Human Rights (PHR). Critics have pointed to PHR’s harsh criticisms of Israel in connection with counter-terror operations in the West Bank and Gaza. [...]
Posted by John Rosenthal
What is WWF? It is commonly assumed that the self-described “conservation organization” is a private advocacy group funded by donations from the public: in other words, a “non-governmental organization” or “NGO.” But closer inspection of WWF’s finances reveals that the “NGO” moniker is here — as indeed in so many cases — a misnomer. It would [...]
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Last month, a coalition of self-styled human rights groups, including the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights, announced that it had filed a war crimes complaint in Germany against Donald Rumsfeld and thirteen other present or former U.S. officials. Other sponsoring plaintiffs include Germany’s Union of Republican Lawyers (RAV) and the French-based International Federation for [...]
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An AP article today bearing the title “Report: Free Trade Threatens Small Farmers” shills for a new publication by Friends of the Earth (FOE) issued just in time for the upcoming WTO meeting in Hong Kong and itself bearing the still more unequivocal title “The Tyranny of Free Trade”. Talk of the evils of free [...]
