This Inquisitr opinion piece by Kaanii Powell Cleaver details our efforts to warn African heads of state and health ministers as well as the unsuspecting consumers in African Nations about aspartame and Ajinomoto! We are writing at length with Doctors Without Borders and will continue to write to Doctors without Borders, Health Ministers, politicians and legislators in Africa, and many activists, consumers, and journalists.

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This is a wonderful article about the efforts by our efforts (myself and Dr. Betty Martini, Founder, Mission Possible International) regarding warning African heads of state and health ministers as well as the unsuspecting consumers in African Nations about aspartame and Ajinomoto, and very comprehensive in general, and I thank the author, Kaanii Powell Cleaver.

The one thing slightly untoward in this article is that one paragraph heading about going belly up in California in the context of the efforts through Proposition 65 which created the Carcinogen Identification Committee. In fact, we are quite optimistic about California labeling aspartame, the only real bright spot in a sometimes grim world.

My UN Resolution from 2006 seems to have some new life and some new interest, although now and over the next four years, it would be deemed far too "potentially anti-corporate" and the US State Department would fight it zealously whereas in 2006 they just dumped on it sufficiently that India had to back down and not introduce it, even though they wanted to do so, and so did the 53 other nations willing to cosponsor it.

Title of the Article is Are Monsanto and the Ajinomoto Company Poisoning Africa? Aspartame and MSG Dangers Revealed.

http://www.inquisitr.com/3785159/are-monsanto-and-the-ajinomoto-company-poisoning-africa-aspartame-msg-danger-revealed/

It is quite refreshing and even re-inspiring to me to receive excellent and thorough coverage outside of the alternative media with whom I regularly work, in one that I really respect, The Inquisitr. We will be writing at length to those with the moral high ground in Africa, like Doctors Without Borders, the source of the photo for this OEN article, and we will continue to write to Health Ministers, politicians and legislators in Africa, as well as individual journalists and activists.

For the photo, it was a choice between an Oxfam image of a mass grave for children and this one, a surviving child, who could be treated and would certainly do better in recovering without food laced with aspartame and MSG, part of Ajinomoto's plan for Africa, which has already started in Ghana as a big Public Relations ploy.

[ I particularly appreciate this appearing in the Inquisitr, one of the few sites to even begin to describe the intentional purging in the NY primary in Dawn Papple's articles, in contrast to the big boys at the Times, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post, Newsday, AM New York, and a few other dailies with circulation over one million per day, who couldn't be bothered. The New York Daily News did carry Shawn King's and Laura Bult's articles on this, but that was it for mainstream media. Mother Jones wrote about that and so did the Gothamist and the Villager. The corporate-driven media was so busy doing what the Boards of Directors, Wall Street, and the Democratic National Committee insisted that they do: to ignore the deeply flawed New York primary in toto! These alternative media sites have guts much or most of the time, but the Inquisitr seems to have the courage to publish the truth all of the time, much like OpEdNews, really....]

Please do read the article at the Inquisitr. I will only here quote one section particularly nice to see again after 10+ years. The whole resolution you can read here:

http://www.redicecreations.com/specialreports/2006/03mar/UNnutritionsecretary.html

"Can the United Nations protect us from aspartame and MSG danger?

In 2006, Fox authored a resolution to create a new undersecretary general for nutrition at the United Nations. The new position, had it been approved, would serve to protect consumers worldwide from known neurotoxins, suspected carcinogens, and other harmful food additives. Following is a portion of the resolution, as published by Red Ice Creations:

"The General Assembly must recognize that there must be henceforth a cessation of all manufacturing of and addition to foods of carcinogens, neurotoxins, mercurial fungicides used in the international transport of coffee beans, bovine growth hormones, pesticides, herbicides, alcoholic beverages, tobacco, cottonseed oil, steroids, chemicals fed to chickens to accelerate the frequency of their egg laying, bleach used to whiten flour and sugar, "anti-caking agents" like sodium silicoaluminate added to flour, chemicals added to color and preserve meat, artificial sweeteners, hundreds of manufactured food products containing aspartame (also called NutraSweet), methyl bromide, calcium propionate, malathion, parathion, dieldrin, food coloring, sodium erythorbate, BHA, BHT, TBHQ, sulfides and sulfates added to dried fruits, and foods irradiated with radioactive strontium and cesium, just to name a few."

(Article changed on December 11, 2016 at 10:18)

Authors Website: https://www.facebook.com/groups/592985284186083/

Authors Bio:

Early in the 2016 Primary campaign, I started a Facebook group: Bernie Sanders: Advice and Strategies to Help Him Win! As the primary season advanced, we shifted the focus to advancing Bernie's legislation in the Senate, particularly the most critical one, to protect Oak Flat, sacred to the San Carlos Apaches, in the Tonto National Forest, from John McCain's efforts to privatize this national forest and turn it over to Rio Tinto Mining, an Australian mining company whose record by comparison makes Monsanto look like altar boys, to be developed as North America's largest copper mine. This is monstrous and despicable, and yet only Bernie's Save Oak Flat Act (S2242) stands in the way of this diabolical plan.

We added "2020" to the title.


I am an art gallery owner in Santa Fe since 1980 selling Native American painting and NM landscapes, specializing in modern Native Ledger Art.


I have always been intensely involved in politics, going back to the mid's 1970's, being a volunteer lobbyist in the US Senate for the Secretary General of the United Nations, then a "snowball-in-hell" campaign for US Senate in NM in the late 70's, and for the past 20 years have worked extensively to pressure the FDA to rescind its approval for aspartame, the neurotoxic artificial sweetener metabolized as formaldehyde. This may be becoming a reality to an extent in California, which, under Proposition 65, is considering requiring a mandatory Carcinogen label on all aspartame products, although all bureaucracies seem to stall under any kind of corporate pressure.


Bills to ban aspartame were in the State Senates of New Mexico and Hawaii, but were shut down by corporate lobbyists (particularly Monsanto lobbyists in Hawaii and Coca Cola lobbyists in New Mexico).


For several years, I was the editor of New Mexico Sun News, and my letters to the editor and op/eds in 2016 have appeared in NM, California, Wisconsin, New York, Maryland, the Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, and many international papers, on the subject of consumer protection. Our best issue was 10 days before Obama won in 2008, when we published a special early edition of the paper declaring that Obama Wins! This was the top story on CNN for many hours, way back then....


My highest accomplishments thus far are

1. a plan to create a UN Secretary General's Pandemic Board of Inquiry, a plan that is in the works and might be achieved even before the 75th UN General Assembly in September 2020.


2. Now history until the needs becomes clear to the powers who run the United Nations: a UN Resolution to create a new Undersecretary General for Nutrition and Consumer Protection, strongly supported ten years ago by India and 53 cosponsoring nations, but shut down by the US Mission to the UN in 2008. To read it, google UNITED NATIONS UNDERSECRETARY GENERAL FOR NUTRITION, please.


These are not easy battles, any of them, and they require a great deal of political and journalistic focus. OpEdNews is the perfect place for those who have a lot to say, so much that they exceed the limiting capacities of their local and regional newspapers. Trying to go beyond the regional papers seems to require some kind of "inside" credentials, as if you had to be in a club of corporate-accepted writers, and if not, you are "from somewhere else," a sad state of corporate induced xenophobia that should have no place in America in 2020!

This should be a goal for every author with something current to say: breaking through yet another glass ceiling, and get your say said in editorial pages all over America. Certainly, this was a tool that was essentially ignored in 2016, and cannot be ignored in the big elections of 2020.


In my capacity as Editor of the Santa Fe Sun News, Fox interviewed Mikhail Gorbachev: http://www.prlog.org/10064349-mikhail-gorbachev