A bill to quadruple the UK's aid funding to a profit-driven 'private equity' company owned by the government comes before MPs today for its third reading, writes Global Justice Now. Trouble is the investments do little or nothing for the poor, and instead entrench corporate power in health, education and infrastructure. Parliament should seize this last chance to reject the new law.
UK's 'development for profit' private equity arm set to grab £6 billion of aid funds Global Justice Now | 10th January 2017 Activism Development UK Law Politics beggar-india-cut.jpg A bill to …
Donald Trump defined the future of his presidency this week with a series of executive orders and speeches that promised corporations everything they ever wanted, writes Patrick Martin: the scrapping of environmental, energy and labour regulations, massive tax cuts, and approval of two fiercely resisted oil pipelines.
… WSWS | 26th January 2017 News USA Politics Corporations standing-rock-cut.jpg Donald … executive orders and speeches that promised corporations everything they ever wanted, … regulations and boost the profits of American corporations. Two more orders required …
An extreme right-wing coup is unfolding day by day, writes Donnachadh McCarthy, as the government exploits Brexit to justify more huge cuts to public services, extreme deregulation and massive corporate empowerment. A new political leadership must step up to defend our hard-won rights and our children's futures.
… benefits of free access to EU markets for our corporations, with NONE of the social … would give away billions to the rich 1% owned corporations by abolishing Corporation Tax. … to do the same or face loss of all their corporations HQs to the UK. They are …
Global corporations and their lofty princes have outgrown the control of regulators, politicians and society, writes George Feiger. Such is their power that they can extract an ever-growing share of global income, block any moves to limit their freedoms, and loot our future wealth for immediate profit. The first step to regaining control is to keep private money firmly out of politics.
… 17th January 2017 Comment Politics Economics Corporations wef-cut.jpg Global corporations and their lofty princes have …
EU-Canada trade deal CETA, like its more well-known ‘evil twin' deal, TTIP, is a new form of trade deal which targets the removal of social, health and environmental regulations, locks in privatisation of public services and introduces a ‘corporate court' system so big business across North America can sue European governments in a private justice system. Worse still, CETA will worsen runaway climate change warns MARK DEARN
… court' mechanism granting fossil fuel corporations yet another means to block clean …
With USDA proposing to redefine GMOs for the purposes of food labeling, the issue is more important than ever, writes Jonathan Latham. It's not just to give consumers' the 'right to know' when they buy GM food, it's also a vital means to empower citizens to fight back against the industrialisation of food and farming, and the monopolies of agribusiness corporations.
… farming, and the monopolies of agribusiness corporations. The GMO labeling issue has … Special protection for GMO / biotech corporations These rights not only allow their … Rather than hide in the shadows agribusiness corporations needed to come out swinging in …
The opposition of Ecuador's Shuar People to large scale mining and hydroelectric development in their ancestral forests has triggered a full-scale military occupation of their lands in the Amazon cloud forest, writes Jake Ling, accompanied by a surge in state-sponsored murder and violence - for which Chinese and Canadian mining companies must share responsibility.
… Indigenous Peoples Mining Human Rights Corporations shuar-1-fb.jpg The opposition of … 'These military forces are acting for foreign corporations' Meanwhile, the government … the population, but rather the transnational corporations that have purchased licenses [to …
As the new year begins, the global clean energy transition is progressing much faster than most people realise, and is probably irreversible, writes Jeremy Leggett. President-elect Trump's prospects of revitalising the US coal industry, and giving the oil and gas industry the expansionist dream ticket it wants, are very low.
… and wind at $1.66. Google leads the giant corporations eagerly going with this flow. The …
Just imagine: gas for your cooking and heating made by composting home-grown British grass, writes Almuth Ernsting. What's not to like? Well, it would need almost all the UK's grassland to match our gas demand, leaving cows and sheep to starve or forcing them into sheds to eat foreign-grown feeds. And methane leakage could easily wipe out any climate benefit.
… Energy Farming Biodiversity UK Renewables Corporations culm-grassland-cut.jpg Just … destructive bioenergy investments, often by corporations or start-up companies with little …
Last week's decision by the Romanian government to seek UNESCO World Heritage status for Rosia Montana, a historic Carpathian mountain village under threat of gold mining, is a massive victory for campaigners after a hard 15-year struggle, writes Alexandru Predoiu - one that has united farmers, city-dwellers and new-age protestors against cultural and ecological destruction.
… | 11th January 2017 Activism Mining Romania Corporations Politics Protest fanfest-cut.jpg …
Back in the 1990s Scotts Miracle-Gro worked out a cunning plan, writes Jeff Manning: to make a fortune from a GMO grass seed for golf courses that survived the Roundup herbicide. But after investing $100 million in the project, it has never sold a single seed. And now the GMO is spreading from test plantings in Idaho, and threatening Oregon's $1 billion hay and grass seed industry.
… Oregonian | 10th January 2017 News GMOs Seeds Corporations Regulation USA golf-cut.jpg Back …
A coalition of farmer and public interest groups are suing the US Environmental Protection Agency for unlawfully approving the use of Monsanto's highly toxic herbicide dicamba on its dicamba-resistant GMO soybeans and cotton, without consulting wildlife and fisheries agencies.
… | 25th January 2017 News GMOs Pesticides Corporations Regulation Law USA …
Leaving the European Union and reaching a trade deal with President Trump's US would create a perfect storm for UK farmers, writes Liberal Democrat Environment Spokesperson Kate Parminter, with new EU tariffs, reduced subsidies and drastically lower standards. The changes would also pose a serious threat to our natural environment, food quality and public health.
Brexit and Trump trade deal spell doom for our 'Green and Pleasant Land' Kate Parminter | 31st January 2017 Comment Trade Food Farming Politics Brexit USA UK countryside-cut.jpg Leaving the European …
The OECD is pursuing a complaint that WWF has funded abuses against the indigenous forest-dwelling Baka or 'Pygmy' peoples of Cameroon, after determining that its human rights guidelines do apply to WWF owing to the 'commercial nature' of its conservation activities.
… Peoples Forests Conservation Cameroon Africa Corporations Switzerland baka-cut.jpg The OECD …
In law, the Shuar Arutam People of Ecuador's Amazon control their ancestral forests. But the government has allocated more than 38% of their territory to large-scale mining, and a gigantic hydroelectric dam is about to be built. Peaceful resistance has been met with a violent military occupation against a People whose only demand, set out in this Open Letter, is peace and justice.
… Indigenous Peoples Mining Human Rights Corporations shuar-2.jpg In law, the Shuar …
President Trump comes into office determined to discard huge swathes of his predecessor's legacy on day one, writes Mark Barteau. But he will struggle to undo Obama's clean energy regulations. It's not just that they are legally robust, it's also that energy markets in the US and the wider world have shifted firmly, and irreversibly, towards efficiency and renewables. Sorry, Mr Trump.
… of the country's largest and most respected corporations, and states that wish to attract …
As Kraków, Poland's second city, takes steps to protect its citizens from rising electromagnetic 'smog' from mobile phones, wifi, Bluetooth, smart meters and other devices, Lynne Wycherley summarises 2016's news highlights on the emerging bio-risks of rising exposure to non-ionisiong radiation. For how much longer can governments continue to ignore the growing evidence of harm?
Krakow's bold step to curb electromagnetic pollution reflects growing evidence of harm Lynne Wycherley | 12th January 2017 News Emf Radiation Science Health wifi-2-cut.jpg As Kraków, Poland's second …