Monsanto has a simple purpose, writes Pete Dolack: to control the world's food supply, monopolizing seeds and agrochemicals to extract profit from every bite of food we eat. Caring nothing for the disease, poverty and destruction that it causes, it has suborned politicians, governments and regulators to its will. But millions are determined to stop it.
… Monsanto - demonstrations took place in 452 cites in 48 countries in opposition to … for Consumer Protection and Food Safety cites "unpublished industry studies to back …
The Paris Agreement is a severely inadequate response to the climate crisis the world now faces, writes Pete Dolack, full of vague aspirations and devoid of hard, enforceable commitments. But the impending US withdrawal is still bad news for us all - including the Trump-supporting Koch brothers, set to gain billions from their Alberta tarsands holdings. Short-term profits are a poor exchange for a less livable world, even for those making the money.
Wrong way! A climatic baby step forward beats a giant leap back Pete Dolack Systemic Disorder | 7th June 2017 News Climate Change USA Politics Corporations Paris Agreement wrong-way-tarsands-cut.jpg …
World Bank projects have left a worldwide trail of evictions, displacements, rapes, murders, forest destruction, greenhouse-gas-belching fossil fuel projects, and destruction of farmland and water sources, writes Pete Dolack. But even as internal reports admit the Bank's wrongdoing, it is asserting its immunity from legal action as terrorised communities seek redress in the courts.
… human rights abuses." The lawsuit filing cites "U.S. government sources" to allege that …
Canada's 'Anti-Terrorism Bill' proposes a massive increase in the power of security services, writes Pete Dolack - and in the crosshairs are campaigners against a tar sands industry that's intent on releasing 240 billion tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere, and those fighting the pipelines needed to get the heavy crude to market. Who are the real 'extremists'?
… Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, cites a poll commissioned by a foundation …
The organizers of tomorrow's International Monsanto Tribunal describe it as a 'moral trial', while the company dismisses it as a 'mock trial' and 'stunt'. The truth, writes Pete Dolack, is that it's about much more than this one company. On trial is the entire neoliberal system of 'free market' finance and monopoly capitalism.
Monsanto on trial? Or 21st century capitalism? Pete Dolack | 13th October 2016 Comment Corporations Finance Law GMOs Food Farming crop-dusting-cut.jpg The organizers of tomorrow's International …
OceanaGold is demanding $300 million in compensation from impoverished El Salvador after a mining permit was refused to safeguard a clean drinking water source that millions of people depend on, writes Pete Dolack. The sum does not even represent losses - but profits the company claims it would have made.
… general moratorium, the Salvadoran government cites not only environmental and health …
Of all the impacts of climate change, one stands out for its inexorable menace, writes Pete Dolack: rising oceans. And it's not just for distant future generations to deal with: new scientific studies show that people alive today may face 6-9 metres of sea level rise flooding well over a million sq.km including many of the world's biggest cities. So where's the emergency response?
No planet for optimists: coastal flooding may come sooner and bigger than we think Pete Dolack | 8th April 2016 News Oceans Climate Change Emissions COP21 Science Arctic Antarctica big-wave-cut.jpg …