Environment
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Harvest of Hypocrisy: Farmers Being Blamed for GMO Crop Failures By Glenn Davis Stone
Of all the GMO controversies around the world, the saga of Bt cotton in India continues to be one of the most interesting and important. In the latest chapter, reported by the Business Standard, cotton yields have dropped to a 5-year low, setting off a fascinating round of finger pointing. Continue reading
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I want my fair share–and that's ALL OF IT. The Kochs & the XL Pipeline By Greg Palast
According to the transcript of the secretly recorded tape, Charles Koch was chuckling like a six-year old. Koch was having a hell of a laugh over pilfering a few hundred dollars’ worth of oil from a couple of dirt-poor Indians on the Osage Reservation. Why did Koch, worth about $3 billion at the time (now… Continue reading
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The EU moves to privatise water: the people mobilize
it has recently become known that the European Commission wishes to privatise the distribution of water across Europe i.e. to make water distribution rights something that can be traded on the stock market for profit. Continue reading
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The Global Water Grab: Meet the “New Water Barons” By Shiney Varghese
“[U]nless African governments and foreign interests lend support to these farmer-driven initiatives, rather than undermine them through land and water deals that benefit large-scale, commercial schemes, the best opportunity in decades for societal advancement in the region will be squandered.” Continue reading
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Hugo Chavez Told Me He Won't Sell Oil to the Kochs By Greg Palast
Greg Palast: I’ve been tracking a tube of black putrid ooze, a toxic viper slowly slithering 2,000 miles across the belly of America, swallowing all water aquifers, politicians and reason in its path. Continue reading
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Video: GMOs: Changing the Human Genome One Meal at a Time By grtv
Natural News have teamed up with Infomatic Films to produce “GMO a Go-Go!”, an animated film all about genetically modified organisms and how good they are – well, for Big Pesticide anyway. “GMOS, changing the human genome one meal at a time!” Continue reading
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Video: Dolphin sought rescue from divers
Dolphin entangled with fishing line rescued by divers in Kona Hawaii. Continue reading
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GMO Scandal: The Long Term Effects of Genetically Modified Food on Humans By F. William Engdahl
One of the great mysteries surrounding the spread of GMO plants around the world since the first commercial crops were released in the early 1990’s in the USA and Argentina has been the absence of independent scientific studies of possible long-term effects of a diet of GMO plants on humans or even rats. Now it… Continue reading
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Video: Fractured Land- Confronting Big Oil the Ravages of Neocolonialism By grtv
19 January 2013 — GRtv Caleb Behn is a young, Indigenous warrior fighting to save his people’s land and culture. Deep in the exquisite wilderness of northeastern British Columbia, the ancestral home of Caleb’s Dene people, the multi-billion-dollar oil and gas industry emits chemicals linked to cancer, birth defects, the killing of brain and blood… Continue reading
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Fracking Industry Goes After Promised Land Film by Meher Ahmad
Before Gus Van Sant’s latest film Promised Land even premiered, the energy industry was up in arms, gearing up to counter the film’s apparent anti-fracking stance with a barrage of “community” responses (read: thinly veiled corporate PR). James Schamus, chief executive of Focus Features the distributor of the film, expressed shock about the attacks on… Continue reading
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Honeybee Problem Nearing A ‘Critical Point’ By Claire Thompson
13 January, 2012 — Grist.org Colony Collapse Disorder is a myth, neurotoxic pesticide causes bee deaths Continue reading
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Fukushima “Decontamination” Measures Are Making Things Worse
Cleanup crews in Fukushima Prefecture have dumped soil and leaves contaminated with radioactive fallout into rivers. Water sprayed on contaminated buildings has been allowed to drain back into the environment. And supervisors have instructed workers to ignore rules on proper collection and disposal of the radioactive waste. Continue reading
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Video: Neoliberalizing Nature and Privatizing the Air By Patrick Bond
Patrick Bond: In 2013 bankers will increase their efforts to make money out of the climate crisis and put a dollar value on everything Continue reading
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Cancer of Corruption, Seeds of Destruction: The Monsanto GMO Whitewash By F. William Engdahl
This revolving door of corrupt ties between powerful private industry lobby groups and the EU Commission was in full view recently with the ruling of the European Food Safety Administration (EFSA) trying to discredit serious scientific tests about the deadly effects of a variety of Monsanto GMO corn. Continue reading
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Video: More Lessons From the Fukushima Daiichi Accident by grtv
In this Monday’s video, Fairewinds investigates a recently released report from Tokyo Electric. Arnie Gundersen discusses TEPCO’s latest analysis that, almost two years after the accident, fully substantiates Fairewinds long held position that the explosion at Fukushima Daiichi Unit 3 was the result of a detonation shock wave. Continue reading
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Fracking: Too Much of a Good Thing, Says Planet Money Guy By Peter Hart
While many environmentalists work to stop fracking, Davidson has a different idea–he writes that the “best thing that any U.S. environmentalist can do is to start thinking like an economist.” Continue reading
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Fukushima Daiichi: From Nuclear Power Plant to Nuclear Weapon By Prof. Anthony Hall
There have been many previews of the catastrophe anticipated by Einstein in the period after 1945 and before the March 3, 2011, 3/3/11, the day an earthquake and tsunami set in motion a chain reaction of interconnected crises that ruined Japan’s oldest operating nuclear power plant. The evidence grows every day that this local incident… Continue reading
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The Fuel Pools of Fukushima: THE GREATEST SHORT-TERM THREAT TO HUMANITY By Washington’s Blog
The World is at a critical crossroads. The Fukushima disaster in Japan has brought to the forefront the dangers of Worldwide nuclear radiation. The crisis in Japan has been described as “a nuclear war without a war”. Continue reading
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Depleted Uranium Contamination: A Crime against Humanity By Dr. Arun Shrivastava
In this article the long term consequences of radiation contamination from unilateral aggression of the US and NATO countries on South and West Asia are discussed. Afpak region is being bombed daily and the cold blooded murder of nine kids out of the seventeen killed is just a small blip when billions are done in. Continue reading
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