Photo Credit: Shutterstock/mostafa fawzy How Corporations Like Monsanto Have Hijacked Higher Education Student research is often dictated by corporations that endow professorships, give money to universities, and put their executives on education boards. May 11, 2012 | Here’s what happens when corporations begin to control education. “When I approached professors [...]
Photo Credit: mydphotos The Human Cancer Risks Posed by Extreme Fossil Fuel Extraction We cancer survivors, who know something about the fragility of life, hereby declare that the exchange of life-giving water for death-dealing fossil fuel is unacceptable. April 17, 2012 | LIKE THIS ARTICLE ? Join our mailing list: Sign up to stay up to [...]
Activists Gather in Washington to Debate the Future of the Corporation Tuesday, 17 April 2012 12:05By Keane Bhatt, Truthout | Report Organized by Ralph Nader and the Center for Study of Responsive Law, more than 200 activists and scholars convened in Washington, DC, on April 2 for an all-day conference [...]
Water Rights Groups Blast Corporate-Dominated Water Forum “Untamed privatization will lead to a disaster” - Common Dreams staff As the World Water Forum gathers in Marseille, France, for its 6th meeting since 1997, water rights activists are criticizing the corporate-led, profit-motivated gathering as a move for global control of water. Shayda Naficy, senior organizer ofCorporate Accountability International‘s Challenge Corporate Control [...]
The World Bank’s Plans for Fisheries Could Destroy Fishing Communities by Meredith McCarthy Taking care of the oceans is a big challenge that needs the right solutions. That’s why we oppose turning our fisheries into privatized markets through catch shares, filling our coastal waters with environmentally degrading factory fish farms, and forcing controversial private eco-labeling [...]
Thomas Tomayo/Flickr There’s Arsenic in Your Kids’ Apple Juice —By Tom Philpott | Wed Nov. 30, 2011 11:08 AM PST 48 “I’d hate to take a bite out of you,” Burt Lancaster hisses at Tony Curtis in the classic ’50s film Sweet Smell of Success. “You’re a cookie full of arsenic.” The line resonates to this day, [...]
AMY GOODMAN: As the world celebrates Earth Day, Bolivia is about to pass the world’s first law that grants nature equal rights with humans. The Bolivian delegation to the United Nations urged the global body to adopt a similar law during this week’s Harmony with Nature conference. DAVID CHOQUEHUANCA: [translated] The United Nations is revolutionizing [...]
