At least 2,000 people assembled in downtown Detroit this week outside the General Electric shareholders meeting to demand that the giant multinational pay its fair share of taxes.
The company President Obama called a "model for America" is squeezing its workers, cutting pensions, wages and benefits--but workers are organizing to fight back.
GE paid an average of 2.3% in taxes over the last ten years, while slashing its US workforce by 32,000 jobs. But its new ad campaign aims to whitewash all that.
An estimated 60 to 70 percent of processed foods contains genetically modified organisms, but unlike 50 other countries, the US doesn't require labeling.
Vandana Shiva, ClimateStoryTellers.org. February 24, 2011.
Genetically engineered food and industrial agriculture won't save us from climate change, droughts and food insecurity -- in fact, it's just the opposite.
FDA is attempting to freeze out scientific experts in its rush to approve biotech company AquaBounty's genetically modified salmon for human consumption.
This salmon would be the first genetically engineered animal to enter the U.S. food supply, and the science behind its approval process is frightening.
Something's very wrong when the chief scientist at the USDA says we'll have to start farming parks, forests and golf courses if we don't switch to biotech.
Hank Paulson's new book details a very different recollection of events that persuaded FDIC Chair Sheila Bair to help guarantee over $70 billion in GE debt.
Across the U.S. and the world, the timber industry is driving research behind genetically engineered forests. But environmentalists worry that it will open an ecological Pandora's Box.
