Food Politics: Report from the U.S. Social Forum Conference
Behind Detroit’s green islands lay not Monsanto’s patents, but a growing people’s movement for food justice and economic democracy. Click here to read this article
View ArticleFeingold: ‘Standing Up to the Unholy Alliance Between Washington and Wall...
WASHINGTON – Wall Street and its allies have been calling the shots in Congress for decades, so they must be glad to see how things are shaping up on financial regulatory reform. Congress is about to...
View ArticleAncient Fossils Show Arctic Now Near Climate Tipping Point
Current levels of Earth’s atmospheric carbon dioxide may be high enough to bring about “irreversible” shifts in Arctic ecosystems, according to new research published today by scientists from the...
View ArticleWe Can’t Afford War: Amy Goodman
“General Petraeus is a military man constantly at war with the facts,” began the MoveOn.org attack ad against Gen. David Petraeus back in 2007, after he had delivered a report to Congress on the status...
View ArticleOrganic Farms Win at Potato Pest Control
A study suggesting that organic agriculture gives better pest control and larger plants than conventional farming is sure to reignite longstanding debates about the merits of organic versus...
View ArticleAlert: Stop Frankenfish!
Obama’s F.D.A. is using a secret process designed to review veterinary drugs to rule on what could be the first genetically engineered animal to enter the food supply, genetically engineered salmon....
View ArticleHaiti: The Aid Dilemma
In the aftermath of January’s devastating earthquake in Haiti, post-disaster relief is creating a new kind of problem for businesses there. The massive influx of food aid has altered the price of rice,...
View ArticleCalling All Fanatics
The fundamental truth of our time is that this culture is killing the planet. We can quibble all we want-and quibble too many do-about whether it is killing the planet or merely causing one of the six...
View Article56 Members Of House And Senate Ask USDA to Stop Genetically Engineered Alfalfa
Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.), joined by 49 other representatives and five other senators, are asking U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to retain the...
View ArticleTowards a New Economy and a New Politics
The U.S. political economy is failing across a broad front-environmentally, socially, economically, and politically. Deep, systemic change is needed to transition to a new economy, one where the...
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