March 2010 - Forces International

The Rise of the Political Class

The first of two articles from a FORCES guest contributor,  UK blogger Frank Davis.

The Rise and Fall of the EU

The second part of Frank Davis’ commentary on the breakdown of European democracy, and how the European Union (EU) will inevitably collapse without support from the people.

By webmaster, 15 years ago

ANOTHER TWIST TO THE ANTISMOKERS

Last January I wrote an article (<a href="http://forces.org/News_Portal/news_viewer.php?id=2053">Do not smoke the 15th cigarette</a>) about a study relative to the discovery of a gene for lung cancer in smokers. <span title="Di quello studio
criticavo il fatto che la ricerca era stata fatta su una metastasi di
carcinoma polmonare su un singolo paziente di cui non si conosceva se
fosse o meno un fumatore, sottolineando il fatto che non è necessario
essere fumatore per avere il cancro polmonare." style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Of that <a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v463/n7278/full/nature08629.html">study</a> I criticized the fact that the research was done on a metastatic lung cancer of a single patient of whom it was not known whether or not he was a smoker (!!!). In that article I underlined the fact that you don’t need to be a smoker to get a lung cancer. <span title="A riprova di ciò, a
parte il fatto che basta controllare la letteratura medica
sull’argomento, oggi mi piace citare un altro studio recentissimo (Mayo
Clinic", 21/03/2010) su questa stessa malattia in non fumatori." style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">As evidence of this, aside from the fact that it is enough to look into the medical literature on the subject, today I would like to quote another recent study (Mayo Clinic, 21.03.2010) on lung cancer in non-smokers.

By webmaster, 15 years ago

Civil Society and Prohibition

FORCES President Maryetta Ables attended the second annual TICAP Conference last week at The Hague, The Netherlands. 
 
Here, we present the text of Maryetta’s speech, entitled "Civil Society and Prohibition".  
 
We recommend that activists and regular readers of FORCES save this document somewhere where it can be easily accessed. Exhaustively researched,  and perhaps one of a kind, this document details the relationship between special interest Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), their financial backers, and the relation these NGOs have to both the United Nations (UN) and the European Union (EU). 
 
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By webmaster, 15 years ago

Anti-Smoking’s Main Article of Faith

FORCES welcomes a new contributor; Dr. Marcin Dolecki of Warsaw, Poland. 
 
Dr. Dolecki  holds Poland’s equivalent of a PhD in the History of Science and Chemistry, as well as Master’s Degrees in both Chemistry and Philosophy. 
 
Here, Dr. Dolecki reports on the claims being made by the anti-smoking movement in Poland, and also explains how the modern anti-smoking movement adopts the precept of  "the beneficial lie". This concept is nothing new, as Dr. Dolecki explains, as it was proposed in Plato’s "The Republic" centuries ago. 
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By webmaster, 15 years ago