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The head of agribusiness giant Monsanto is raking in cash while his company continues to help destroy the environment. Barron’s reports that Chief Executive Officer Hugh
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January 28, 2013 // 0 Comments
Humankind’s greatest crisis coincides with the rise of an ideology that makes it impossible to address. By the late 1980s, when it became clear that manmade climate change
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December 10, 2012 // 0 Comments
“We are not responsible for climate change—it’s the big industries that are,” said Abelardo, a young man from the Tseltal Mayan village of Amador
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November 14, 2012 // 0 Comments
Over the past weekend, I had the opportunity to attend CSICon in Nashville, Tennessee. The Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (“CSI”) combats all sorts of pseudoscience,
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November 1, 2012 // 0 Comments
Historically, television viewing has been used by various authorities to quiet potentially disruptive people—from kids, to psychiatric inpatients, to prison inmates. In
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October 30, 2012 // 0 Comments
Melina Laboucan-Massimo’s family has felt the impacts of an oil spill disaster firsthand on their Lubicon Cree territories in Alberta: burning eyes, headaches, nausea and
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October 26, 2012 // 0 Comments
The next great battle of the Occupy movement may not take place in city parks and plazas, where the security and surveillance state is blocking protesters from setting up
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October 16, 2012 // 0 Comments
Do your children light up when they see those golden
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September 28, 2012 // 0 Comments
For generations, corn has played a central role in the lives of Indigenous Peoples, not only as a sacred food but as a central figure in creation
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September 26, 2012 // 0 Comments
Although I generally refrain from posting on Big Ag, I have a special interest in Monsanto. Last year, I had wanted to devise a list or ranking of top predatory companies,
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September 24, 2012 // 0 Comments