World-News

Jon Letman, Truthout: Indian physicist and philosopher, activist and ecofeminist pioneer Vandana Shiva talks about GMOs, the militarization of agriculture, the politics of occupation and the primacy of biodiversity.

http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/14784-activist-seeds-of-gm-foods-war-vsearth-planted-by-military-industrial-forces



Our Food Is Being Hijacked by Monopolizing Corporations

Mark Karlin, Truthout: If you are opposed to the corporatization of the food supply, Wenonah Hauter, executive director of Food & Water Watch, presents a meticulously researched argument for a massive restructuring of a system which allows a few companies to determine what we eat.

http://www.truth-out.org/progressivepicks/item/14783-our-food-is-being-hijacked-by-monopolizing-corporations



The True Costs of Industrialized Food

Staff, Other Worlds: Has agribusiness won such control that a turnaround is impossible? No. Small farmers, grassroots groups, and advocacy organizations are demanding food sovereignty, meaning the right of every people to produce adequate, healthy, affordable, and culturally appropriate food for all.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/15300-the-true-costs-of-industrailized-food

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Food giants take over the industry

Small producers face poverty as ever more commodities are controlled by a coterie of multinationals.

http://is.gd/ptiCDp


From Information Clearing House

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America the polluted

CounterPunch
by Paul Craig Roberts

02/26/13

In the United States everything is polluted. Democracy is polluted with special interests and corrupt politicians. Accountability is polluted with executive branch exemptions from law and the Constitution and with special legal privileges for corporations, such as the Supreme Court given right to corporations to purchase American elections...

http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/02/26/one-nation-under-monsanto/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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How the Food Giants Hooked America on Junk Food
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2013/03/01-1

Push for Labeling of Genetically Engineered Foods
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/03/12-10

Pesticides for GMOs Driving Monarch Butterfly Populations to 'Ominous' Brink
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/03/14-3



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By Colin Todhunter

We are just as complicit in buying into the bogus merits of international capitalism and the mentality that supposes countless dead children are worth much less than a highly profitable barrel of cheap oil.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34106.htm



Is the US Maintaining Death Squads and Torture Militias in Afghanistan?

By Glenn Greenwald

Afghan President Hamid Karzai and local residents insist that the answer is yes.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34103.htm



U.S.-Backed Forces Tortured, Abducted and Killed Civilians, Claims Afghan Gov t

The inquiry comes after Afghan President Hamid Karzai barred U.S. troops from operating in the province where the abuses allegedly took place.

http://is.gd/F9Ke1z



Drones Over There, Total Surveillance Over Here

By Saskia Sassen

The logic of the system is that we must all be considered suspect in a first step in order to ensure our safety. Who, then, have we the citizens become, or turned into? Are we the new colonials?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34099.htm



Invasion of the 'Movement Snatchers '

By Philip A Farruggio

It will take an upsurge of we the overwhelming majority of fair and decent Americans to pull back the empire.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34107.htm



The US and the M Word

By Dan DeWalt

Violating international borders, stalking an individual and blowing him up without the benefit of accusation or trial, most people would call that premeditated murder.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34142.htm



How does the U.S. mark unidentified men in Pakistan and Yemen as drone targets?

In so-called signature strikes, the U.S. kills people whose identities aren t confirmed. Attacks against unknown militants reportedly may account for the majority of strikes.

http://is.gd/dqUJXc



Drones And Suicide Bombs In Central Park: McChrystal

By Special Correspondent

To the United States, a drone strike seems to have very little risk and very little pain, at the receiving end, it feels like war. Americans have got to understand that.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34148.htm



5 big Native American health issues you don t know about

Young Native Americans are more likely to kill themselves than any other group.

http://is.gd/E1xWQu


From Information Clearing House

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Senator Leahy: We Demand A Public Release of Legal Memos on Drone Strikes
http://codepink.salsalabs.com/o/424/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=7131

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No oversight for drone killings
http://www.brasschecktv.com/videos/war-crimes-1/us-as-murder-inc-.html

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'We Are Those Two Afghan Children Killed by War'
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/03/04



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Weapons of Mass Distraction

Video

A closer look at the corporate media s complicity in selling war to the American people by highlighting multiple staged events.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34100.htm



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By Gareth Porter

They have chosen not just to criticise U.S. policy toward Iran but to analyse that policy as a problem of U.S. hegemony.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34095.htm



History of Iran-US Relationship

Video

Sixty years ago, the CIA and the British SIS orchestrated a coup d'etat that toppled the democratically elected government of Mohammad Mossadegh.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34096.htm



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Senator Bernie Sanders
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/02/26-0

Global Warming Doubles Risk of ''Katrina-Magnitude'' Events
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/03/19-2

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Global warming may cause extremes

Global warming may have caused extreme events such as a 2011 drought in the United States and a 2003 heatwave in Europe by slowing vast, wave-like weather flows in the northern hemisphere, scientists said on Tuesday.

http://is.gd/7zxdSs


From Information Clearing House



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/02/26-8

The Roberts Court vs. Voting Rights
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/02/27-9

Supreme Court Argument Highlights the Need for Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, ACLU Says
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/02/27-0

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Defend Martin Luther King s Dream Act

Protect the Voting Rights Act and Expand It Across America.
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/659/726/862/


From Information Clearing House



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Oxfam
https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/02/26

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Our Food System Is in Crisis Due to Technology Run Amok and Monopolizing Corporations

Wenonah Hauter, The New Press: ''We must move beyond the focus on consumer choice to examine the corporate, scientific, industrial, and political structures that support an unhealthy system.''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/14736-our-food-system-is-in-crisis-due-to-technology-run-amock-and-monopolizing-corporations



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/02/26-2



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Derwesten.de

Vor allem von der Möglichkeit, andere anonym im Internet zu beleidigen, neudeutsch Cybermobbing genannt, machen immer mehr Menschen Gebrauch.

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