Literature

NOVANEWS By Global Research Global Research As F. William Engdahl wrote in “Death of the Birds and the Bees Across America“: Birds and bees are something most of us take for granted as part of nature. The expression teaching about the birds and the bees to explain the process of human reproduction to young people is not an accidental expression. Bees and birds contribute to the essence of life on our planet. A study by the US Department of Agriculture estimated that …perhaps one-third of our total diet is dependent, directly or indirectly, upon insect-pollinated plants.[1] The honey bee, Apis mellifera, is the most important pollinator of agricultural crops. Honey bees pollinate over 70 out of 100 crops that in turn provide 90% of the world’s food. They pollinate most fruits and vegeta...

NOVANEWS Maya Angelou documented the black experience in her work Charismatic and passionate warm and wise, formidable without being forbidding, American author and poet Maya Angelou, who has died aged 86, was a role model and an activist who recorded and celebrated the experience of being black in the United States. Not everyone appreciated her lush prose style, there were raised eyebrows at the inconsistencies in her different accounts of her life, and some conservative Americans protested at what they saw as her books' frank treatment of violence and sexuality. “Start Quote History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived” Maya Angelou But few could quarrel with the breadth of her erudition and her achievement - she was often called a Renaissance woman - or the respect in wh...