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A shortage of shit
Seems unbelievable with Johnson as Prime Minister and all his ministers, but PETER FROST reports on a dramatic shortage of excrement
FROM EACH ACCORDING TO ABILITY: (L to R) A willet doing what willets do on beaches and African bush elephant dung in Etosha National Park, Namibia
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A call from the World Peace Council to the peace movements of the world
DR HANA SAADA asks why a war crime against innocent children on this scale does not dominate the world’s coverage of the US-Israeli war on Iran
From the colonial oil plunder of 1909 to the current threat of a regional inferno: Western interference in Iran forms a chain of coups, puppets, and cynical geopolitics centered on oil, says MARC VANDEPITTE
NORMA AUSTIN HART reports from a conference on on the rights of women prisoners in the Scottish criminal justice system
SO WHAT do you call it? Shite perhaps — that “e” makes it much more polite, or poo, crap, excrement, stools, faeces, dung, faecal matter, manure or even good old number twos.
Shakespeare’s Juliet said: “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet” and whatever you call it, the sweet and smelly stuff will always smell just as sweet and smelly.
Today despite the vast increase in human population there is massive shortage of the stuff that is so important to nourish all kinds of organisms further down the food chain both on land and sea.
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