Taxpayer-financed development banks have lent €500 million to Ukraine's biggest agribusiness company so it can undercut EU chicken producers, writes Fidanka Bacheva McGrath - while polluting the environment and grabbing land from local farmers.
EU taxpayers finance Ukraine's 'chicken oligarch' Fidanka Bacheva McGrath CEE Bankwatch | 17th September 2015 News Ukraine EU Farming Land Grabs Finance yuriy-kosyuk-cut.jpg Taxpayer-financed …
A welt of anti-wildlife 'riders' have been attached to essential legislation in the US Congress, writes Caeleigh MacNeil - aimed at stripping protection from endangered species and so grease the skids for industrial exploitation of wildlands against the wishes of the great majority of Americans.
Protecting endangered species - Congress says NO, America says YES Caeleigh MacNeil EarthJustice | 18th July 2015 News USA Natural World Politics sage-grouse-cut.jpg A welt of anti-wildlife 'riders' …
The discovery of a secret 'fox farm' apparently linked to the Middleton Hunt exposes the lie that is used to justify fox hunting, writes, Dr Toni Shephard: that it's a legitimate means of wildlife control. On the contrary, foxes are deliberately fattened up for the kill, also indicating possible violations of the 2004 Hunting Act, which prohibits the hunting of wild animals, including foxes, with dogs.
… North Cotswold Hunt dumping dozens of dead chickens, rabbits and eggs at an artificial … In May 2015 we received footage of dead chickens being dumped outside an artificial …
Dissent over the massive USA-EU TTIP trade deal is focused on the 'corporate courts' allowing investors to sue national governments, But largely neglected has been the equally serious issue of 'Regulatory Cooperation' - which would impose a huge burden of 'red tape' on EU and US legislatures, while forcing down health, safety, social and environmental standards.
TTIP's 'Regulatory Cooperation' would force down standards in US and EU Friends of the Earth Europe | 13th July 2015 News Trade Regulation EU USA Corporations us-chicken-farm-cut.jpg Dissent over the …
Forget tariffs, forget Obama's promises. The whole point of modern 'trade agreements' is to whack pesky labor, environment and health laws, writes David Morris, and so empower capital and corporate power against regulators, governments and democracy itself. Unconvinced? Just imagine what these deals would look like if they were there to empower people.
Yes, trade deals really do overturn democracy David Morris On the Commons | 28th July 2015 News Trade Finance Health Society Politics USA Canada Mexico winston-cut.jpg Forget tariffs, forget Obama's …
The Green party today overtook both UKIP and the LibDems the on number of paid-up members. After a surge of 4,000 new members in two days, the Greens UK-wide now have 44,713 members, 4,000 more than UKIP, and 1,500 more than the LibDems.
Greens overtake UKIP and Libdems - over 4,000 new members in 2 days! The Ecologist | 15th January 2015 News Politics UK vote-green-bicycle-cut.jpg The Green party today overtook both UKIP and the …
An initiative to re-home abused, over-worked domestic elephants is supporting the conservation of one of Cambodia's last and most species-rich rainforests, writes William Laurance. Growing ecotourism in the area, attracted by the elephants, is engaging indigenous communities in forest protection and helping to stave off the pressure from loggers and plantations.
… one motorcycle had at least two hundred live chickens hanging upside down from a series of …
Thousands of small farmers in Poland are blockading motorways and holding demonstrations to demand land rights, a ban on GMOs and an end to oppressive health and safety regulations - and they are refusing to call off the protests until their demands are met.
… typically mixed, with small number of pigs, chickens, cattle and horses and arable fields …
For over two years the small community of San José del Golfo has maintained a 24-hour barricade against the US-owned mine El Tambor that threatens to destroy their land and water. The non-violent resistance, led by women, is transforming the traditional 'macho' culture, and attracting support across Guatemala, and beyond.
Guatemala: women lead the struggle for life, land, clean water Jeff Abbott Waging Nonviolence | 1st April 2015 News Mining Water Pollution Guatemala Corporations Trade jeff abbott-cut.jpg For over …
For anyone who believes in the ineffable wisdom of 'free' markets, the current sinkaway oil price takes some explaining, writes James Meadway. Saudi Arabia's big gamble that it could put US shale oil out of business by over-pumping has now collided with China's falling demand for energy. Result: oil producers everywhere are swimming in red ink. Where will it all end?
China syndrome: fracked oil and Saudi Arabia's big gamble hit sinking global economy James Meadway DeSmog.uk | 10th September 2015 News Energy Oil Fracking USA Saudi Arabia China Economics …
The discovery of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in pork products in UK supermarkets is a call to action, writes Peter Melchett. We must end the unhygienic farming practices that only work with constant antibiotic use, and reserve the most valuable antibiotics for human use only - or face a world in which routine surgery and infections bring serious risk of death.
MRSA superbug found in pork meat and sausages - it's time for action Peter Melchett | 19th June 2015 News Health Food Farming Politics Regulation unhappy-pigs-cut.jpg The discovery of …
There are two rules about the end costs of nuclear power, writes Ian Fairlie. It's far more than you ever knew. And whatever sum of money was ever set aside, it's nowhere near enough. Germany understands this. That's why it refused to let E.ON spin off its nuclear liabilities into a hands-off company. But the UK, it seems, has lost the ability to learn from its nuclear mistakes.
… ... At the end of nuclear, onerous financial chickens come home to roost for nuclear …
This week Finland cancelled its option for a second European Pressurised Reactor as the existing EPR project sinks into a abyss of cost over-runs, delays and litigation, writes Jim Green. It now looks like the EPR is a failed technology and its owner, French nuclear giant Areva, is fast running out of both money and orders as its 'hot prospects' evaporate.
… Areva: "Everyone in the know could tell the chickens were going to come home to roost. I …
Just as the chemical industry and its shills once proclaimed the safety of DDT, they are doing the same today with the herbicide glyphosate which has penetrated throughout the food chain, writes Evaggelos Vallianatos. And once again it is a toxic lie that threatens species, ecosystems and people. It's time to demand a new kind of agriculture, and a future free of all pesticides.
Ruthless power and deleterious politics: from DDT to Roundup Evaggelos Vallianatos | 18th July 2015 News Toxics Health Farming Corporations Regulation USA ddt-is-good-for-me.png Just as the chemical …