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Cargill's Amazon soy plant forced to close
News
26th March, 2007
Cargill, the international agribusiness giant, has been forced to closed a soy-bean export terminal in the Amazon. more...
Bushmen struggle to return to Central Kalahari
Clive Dennis
1st March, 2007
Botswanan police are refusing to allow Kalahari Bushmen to return to their ancestral homelands, despite their having won a landmark high court case allowing them to do so, writes Clive Dennis more...
East India Company: the first multinational corporation
Nick Robins
1st November, 2006
The East India Company was the first multinational corporation - until its abuse of power caused a public backlash. Nick Robins examines its legacy to reveal how it set the corporate blueprint for today's firms to operate unchecked more...
School Uniformity
Rachel Ragg
22nd September, 2006
The exuberance of childhood celebrated in books such as Just William is now frowned upon as inappropriate behaviour, resulting in more and more children being prescribed behavioural drugs. Rachel Ragg investigates more...
Colombia's killing fields - The first bio-war of the 21st century
Sue Branford and Hugh O’Shaughnessy
1st March, 2006
We were sitting chatting outside our home when two small planes flew over very low. We went down to our fields to see what was happening. My husband said, “Look, they’re dropping poison on our land.” more...
New Emperors, Old Clothes
Vandana Shiva
1st July, 2005
Anyone serious about making poverty history needs to understand where poverty actually comes from and what it really is. more...
Boycott Coca-Cola
Max Keiser
1st February, 2005
Boycott Coca-Cola and make money for the victims of Coca-Cola. How much can we make?more...
I’m the Reverend Billy
Bill Talen
1st December, 2004
We interrupt our regular programming for a moral advisory… I’m the Reverend Billy more...
Revolt
Jay Griffiths
1st October, 2004
Costing £2.9 billion, the UK’s new police communication system Tetra has been described by one independent scientist as likely to cause ‘more civilian deaths than all the world’s terrorist organisations put together’ more...
I’m the Reverend Billy
Bill Talen
1st October, 2004
'I can no longer sit back and allow terrorist infiltration, terrorist indoctrination, terrorist subversion, and the international terrorist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.' Commander George the Ripper Bush at Madison Square Garden more...I’m the Reverend Billy
Bill Talen
1st September, 2004
We interrupt our regular programming for a moral advisory… I’m the Reverend Billy more...Tortured Soul
Jeremy Smith
8th July, 2004
Ka Hsaw Wa has seen many of his friends killed and has suffered torture at the hands of the Burmese military. Now he is taking Unocal, one of the US companies that trades with the murderous regime, to court. One of the most wanted men in Burma, talks to The Ecologist. more...
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If shirts could only speak…if we would only listen
Anita Roddick
8th July, 2004
She is our sister. That garment holds the story of her life. If we ignore it, if we do not care to understand, she suffers. And so do we. more...
Submerging Freedom
Keith Hyams
1st March, 2004
Some 245 Indian villages are in the middle of being destroyed by a $7 billion dam project that will consume more energy than it provides and has even been condemned by its World Bank sponsors. more...
The privatisation of water
Jon Luoma
1st March, 2004
The privatisation of global water services means billion-dollar profits for corporations and pollution, disconnection and soaring prices for consumers more...
I’m the Reverend Billy
Bill Talen
1st February, 2004
We interrupt our regular programming for a moral advisory… I’m the Reverend BillyGeorge Bush Does Not Return to Ground Zero! more...
Say It Without Flowers
Venetia Hargreaves-Allen
1st October, 2003
Say: ‘I am happy to pay for environmental degradation, chronic illness and labour rights abuses in countries that grow flowers for Western consumers but cannot feed their own people.’ more...
Be Afraid...
William Rivers Pitt
1st April, 2003
Concerned for the future of the planet? Wait till you hear about the Project for the New American Century. By William Rivers Pitt. more...
BURMA
The Ecologist
1st February, 2003
Or Myanmar, depending on which side of the military regime you find yourself. If like the companies below you support the regime, enjoy your visit to Myanmar. If not, please boycott Burma. more...
Dying to know the truth
Mark Purdey
1st November, 2002
Since defeating the government in 1984 over its compulsory warble fly erradication scheme, Mark Purdey has been travelling the world to find the real cause of BSE and vCJD. His conclusions are controversial, fascinating, and if proved right, will cost the government millions in compensation.more...
Corporate power wielded through limited liability status
Derrick Jensen
20th March, 2001
‘Immortal’ and created solely to amass ever larger amounts of wealth, limited-liability corporations institutionalise dissatisfaction. They are, Derrick Jensen writes, the economic manifestation of the Buddhist notion of ‘hungry ghosts’ – spirits that roam the earth, always eating, never sated. more...
13 Globe-trotting indigenous grannies carry message of unity and prayer
Nicola Graydon
1st January, 2001
Grandmother Earth - Thirteen matriarchs from indigenous cultures are currently touring the world, promoting peace, unity and a respect for nature. nicola Graydon meets one of them, Mona Polacca more...Members
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