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Governments and international institutions have become accomplices, when not co-profiteers, in a productivist, unsustainable and privatized food system. Their  “concern” about the increase in the price of the staple foods and its impact on the most disadvantaged...

We begin today’s headlines close to home with Al Jazeera America: North California drought threatens farmers, ag workers, cities – and you Driest conditions in 100 years could hit the nation’s food basket hard, affecting half of US...

Desert Massacre Threatens Africa’s Largest Gas Industry The killing of foreign workers in the Algerian desert threatens production from North Africa’s largest oil and gas industry, the main source of revenue for a country that avoided unrest when the...

‘Windfall: The Booming Business of Global Warming’ by McKenzie Funk (Penguin Press; January 23, 2014) Table of Contents: i. Introduction/Synopsis PART I: THE WORLD’S CLIMATE IS CHANGING, AND WE ARE THE MAIN CAUSE 1. Global Warming...

from rjs, November 15, 2014 Cancer Alley Louisiana: The 'Mother of All Sinkholes': Cancer Alley, a stretch of about 100 miles between New Orleans and Baton Rouge, is home to some 150 petrochemical plants, making these swamplands perhaps the most industrialized...