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The Truth About Extreme Global Inequality
The richest 300 people on earth have more wealth than the poorest 3 billion. We need to change the rules, and we need to do it quickly.
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Revealed: How Walmart, Exxon and Coke Buy Latino Friends in Congress
Seven weeks into the 113th Congress, as lawmakers began work on immigration reform and a tax code overhaul, powerful corporate lobbyists in the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute scored premium access to politicians.
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Hawaiians Against Monsanto: The Struggle to Reclaim Paradise
Hawaii is the world’s ground zero for chemical testing and food engineering, with companies like Monsanto executing thousands of open-field-test experiments of pesticide-resistant crops over the last 20 years.
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Look out Monsanto: The Global Food Movement Is Rising
The book Harvesting Justice isn’t just a look at the world’s most exciting food justice groups—it’s also a knockout organizing tool.
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Revealed: State Dept's Keystone XL Contractor Approved Explosive Peruvian Pipeline
The State Department consulting firm that claims TransCanada's proposed Keystone XL pipeline proposal is safe and sound has a shady past.
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Farmers-Consumers vs. Monsanto: Many Davids Can Topple One Goliath
Global resistance to Monsanto is growing as people rise up to reclaim food and seed sovereignty.
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E.U. Climate Commissioner: "Stop Paying the Polluters"
Harnessing the existing broad consensus against fossil-fuel subsidies is possible even in the absence of a legal agreement.
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IMF Urges Cuts to Fossil Fuel Subsidies, Supports Carbon Tax
The IMF estimates that rolling back subsidies on fossil fuels, which reached some $480 billion in 2011 in pre-tax costs alone, could result in a 13 percent decline in global carbon emissions.
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California Court Ruling Deals Setback to Fracking on Public Lands
A regulatory setback for hydraulic fracturing on public lands in San Jose, California.
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After Kidnappings and Killing, Canadian Silver Mining Project Advances in Guatemala
An exploitation license granted to Canada's Tahoe Resources to mine silver in Guatemala came two weeks after four indigenous leaders were abducted, and one killed, registering sustained mass opposition to the project.