The country’s new prime minister, Andy Burnham, has promised a break from the politics of the last 40 years—realizing more broadly that Labour must stand up for the 99% against big business, or the party will become irrelevant.
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Money Laundering, Misinforming and Pro-GMO: Abolish the Grocery Manufacturer’s Association
The GMA stands beside Monsanto as the most vile, physically harmful corporation in the global food industry, going to any lengths to keep cheap GMO foods flowing.
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Exclusive: Why West Virginia No Longer Trusts Its Water, Government or Coal Industry
The spill is leading some state natives to question the fate of the coal industry that long sustained them economically – and causing organizers to take West Virigina’s subpar regulation of extractive industries into their own hands.
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Why Are Louisiana's Forests Being Sacrificed to Fuel Europe's Biomass Boom?
Environmentalists are crying foul over European corporations using Louisiana’s forests for their profit and polluting the planet in the process.
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Exposed: Outrage In Denmark As Goldman Sachs Buys National Energy Company
Denmark agreed Thursday to sell 19 percent of its state owned energy company, DONG Energy, to U.S. investment giant Goldman Sachs – setting off a storm of protest and the resignation of the Socialist People's Party from the coalition government.
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Exposing the Mont Pelerin Society: Koch-Powered Climate Denial At Its Best
An investigation reveals Charles Koch's long-standing affiliation with the Mont Pelerin Society, a global group of industrialists, academics and economists who seek to eliminate all government regulations while devouring the planet's resources.
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Occupy Monsanto Protesters Push Labeling Resolution at Annual Shareholder Meeting
For the first time ever, Monsanto shareholders convened to vote on a resolution to support GMO labeling.
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TransCanada Pipeline Explosion Shuts Off Gas For 4,000 Residents In Sub-Zero Temperatures
As TransCanada has been pushing for the approval of the Keystone XL pipeline.
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As British Public Shuns Fracking, Many See a Turn Toward Tidal Energy
Both the economic and ecological arguments against fracking undermine the government’s goal of igniting a "British Shale Gas revolution" – especially with forecasts projecting tidal energy to become a £6 billion industry that creates 19,000 jobs.
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E.U. Citizens Initiative Launches Water Rights onto European Agenda
Water and who should provide it – the public or private sector – has become the first issue pushed onto Brussels' policy agenda via a new mechanism, the E.U. Citizens' Initiative, meant to involve ordinary people in decision-making.
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Pipeline Resistance Movement Sets Sights on TransCanada's Energy East Project
TransCanada’s Energy East pipeline was originally celebrated as the project that would connect the East and the West. Then, proponents said it was the project that would allow the Canadian petroleum industry to access new international markets. Next, it was known as the project that would provide oil for Eastern Canadians.
