Environment
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“The Monsanto Protection Plan”: Monsanto’s Deception Game on GMO in Europe By F. William Engdahl
Before the world opens the champagne to celebrate the death of GMO and its paired herbicides such as Roundup, it is worthwhile to look more closely at what was officially said and what not. Continue reading
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Student Science Experiment Finds Plants won’t Grow near Wi-Fi Router
Ninth-graders design science experiment to test the effect of cellphone radiation on plants. The results may surprise you. Continue reading
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Video: The World Against Monsanto: Holding the Corrupt Accountable
Monsanto is a company feared and reviled by the public in equal measure. But whatever cases Monsanto has lost in the court of public opinion it has made up for in the courts of justice thanks to its revolving door with the upper reaches of Washington. Continue reading
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Monsanto Protection Act Signed By Obama, GMO Bill “Written By Monsanto” Signed Into Law
The Monsanto Protection Act, essentially both written by and benefiting Monsanto Corporation, has been signed into law by United States President Barack Obama. The infamous Monsanto Corporation will benefit greatly and directly from the bill, as it essentially gives companies that deal with genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and genetically engineered (GE) seeds immunity to the… Continue reading
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Video: Global Protest in 300 Cities Will Take Aim on Monsanto
Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to challenge Monsanto’s bullying of small farmers, influence on public policy, and aggressive promotion of GMOs. Continue reading
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May 25 ‘March Against Monsanto’ planned for over 30 countries
March Against Monsanto has announced that on May 25, tens of thousands of activists around the world will “March Against Monsanto.” Currently, marches are being planned on six continents, in 36 countries, totaling events in over 250 cities, and in the US, events are slated to occur simultaneously at 11 a.m. Pacific in 47 states. Continue reading
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The world is rich. The rich are the problem By Richard Mellor
There’s no shortage of food, no shortage of wealth to solve social crises. The problem is a system that enriches a few and starves multitudes. Continue reading
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Bee Deaths: US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Slapped with Lawsuit By Dr Joseph Mercola
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has failed to protect bees from neonicotinoid pesticides, according to a lawsuit against the agency, filed by beekeepers and environmental groups. Continue reading
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Radioactive: Abe Government Preparing for the Depopulation of Japan By Wayne Madsen
Informed Japanese sources have told WMR that Japan’s right-wing Liberal Democratic Party government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is laying plans for the forced depopulation of most of the Japanese archipelago due to the deadly radiation emanating from the crippled Fukushima Daichi nuclear reactors. Continue reading
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Reducing production: How should socialists relate to struggles against capitalist growth By Don Fitz
The question is not should we advocate reducing production within capitalist society but rather: How do we best relate to those struggles that are already occurring? Activists across the globe are challenging the uncontrollable dynamic of economic expansion which threatens the survival of humanity. It has never been more urgent to provide a vision of… Continue reading
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Genetic Engineering, Eugenics and the Ideology of the Rich By Colin Todhunter
Whatever the publicly stated aims of the genetically modified organisms (GMOs) sector, and however terrible its impact is on health, the environment and cotton farmers in India, there is a much more sinister side to this industry. Continue reading
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Seeds of Destruction: The Diabolical World of Genetic Manipulation By F. William Engdahl
This skillfully researched book focuses on how a small socio-political American elite seeks to establish control over the very basis of human survival: the provision of our daily bread. “Control the food and you control the people.” Continue reading
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'Monsanto Protection Act' to be voted on by Congress
The US House of Representatives is expected to weigh in on the Agricultural Appropriations Bill for Fiscal year 2013 this week, and included within the act lies the “Farmer Assurance Provision,” a small subsection that has so far earned opposition from hundreds of thousands family farmers, environmental interest groups and other advocates. Those hoping to… Continue reading
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The Fracked-up USA Shale Gas Bubble By F. William Engdahl
At a time when much of the world is looking with a mix of envy and excitement at the recent boom in USA unconventional gas from shale rock, when countries from China to Poland to France to the UK are beginning to launch their own ventures into unconventional shale gas extraction, hoping it is the… Continue reading
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EDF SUING CLIMATE ACTIVISTS FOR £5 MILLION – PROTESTERS FACE LOSING HOMES
This is the first time an energy company has attempted such a claim, and campaigners say it represents the opening of a new front against peaceful direct action protesters. If successful, it could have a chilling effect on other groups – such as UK Uncut and Greenpeace – who use civil disobedience to challenge social… Continue reading
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GMO Agribusiness and the Destructive Nature of Global Capitalism By Colin Todhunter
It’s apparent that, as the academic David Harvey states, the problems created by capitalism don’t get solved, they just get shifted around. Nowhere is this epitomized more clearly than the role of US agribusiness in India. Continue reading
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Media Advisory: Media and the Keystone March
Tens of thousands of climate activists marched in Washington D.C.on February 17. Did the corporate media notice them? Continue reading
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