THE FIREBREAK
THE FIREBREAK, David Zaruk, Peter BeckettMedia criticism, original reporting, and commentary on the activites of the media, foundations and NGOs.
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Shining a Light on Foundation-Funded Lawfare NGOs
A recent US Department of the Treasury announcement that organizations claiming tax exempt status (NGOs, foundations, universities and some media groups) will have to be transparent about their project and campaign funding has changed the r...
Greenpeace’s Poisoned Report
Here we go again. Greenpeace released a report last week entitled Our Poisoned Land claiming 102 individual pesticides have been used across seven groups of British food staples, namely carrots, onions, leeks, strawberries, peas, swede, tur...
Good Intentions, Bad Outcomes: The Packard Foundation’s War on Chilean Salmon Workers
If you’ve been following the Firebreak’s running investigation into how U.S. foundations use fiscal sponsors, NGO networks, and compliant journalists to reshape entire industries in their own ideological image, then Marc Gunther’s piece thi...
Preventing Food Addiction
What would happen if the health zealot policies imposed against tobacco harm reduction strategies were to be applied to a greater addictive activity: food consumption? We would, for one thing, make far greater health advances and see import...
How IARC became the Litigation Industry’s Wet Nurse
The US litigation industry is constantly trying to find the next Big Tobacco. As the number of tort law firms grow, with the increasing costs of multi-district mass tort litigations, the amount of debt multiplying via the litigation finance...
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Exposing radical NGOs, confronting biased reporters.
David is The Firebreak editor. He is also known as the Risk-Monger. Retired professor, environmental-health risk analyst, science communicator, promoter of evidence-based policy and philosophical theorist on activists and the media.
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