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How Corporations Like Monsanto Have Hijacked Higher Education

Jill Richardson, AlterNet. May 11, 2012.

Academic research is often dictated by corporations that endow professorships, give money to universities, and put their executives on education boards.

Is Vermont's Governor Surrendering to Monsanto?

Will Allen, Ronnie Cummins, AlterNet. April 19, 2012.

Vermont's governor has 2 weeks to stand with 90 percent of his constituents who favor labeling genetically engineered foods, or cave to Monsanto.

Millions Against Monsanto: The Food Fight of Our Lives

Ronnie Cummins, AlterNet. April 11, 2012.

Finally, public opinion around the biotech industry's contamination of our food supply and destruction of our environment has reached the tipping point. We're fighting back.

Cheerleading for Monsanto? The Shocking Lack of Difference Between Oxford University Press and Fox News

Frances Moore Lappe, AlterNet. April 9, 2012.

Why is an esteemed academic press publishing books that lack even a basic citation of sources?

Outrageous Lies Monsanto and Friends Are Trying to Pass off to Kids as Science

Ronnie Cummins, AlterNet. March 20, 2012.

The claims made in a book from the biotechnology industry are laughable. But these blatant lies are passed off as 'science' for schoolchildren.

5 Things Corporations Are Trying to Hide From You

David Sirota, Salon. March 14, 2012.

These are but a few of many examples of a larger corporate opposition to basic disclosure.

Monsanto Found Guilty of Chemical Poisoning in France

Anthony Gucciardi, Natural Society. February 23, 2012.

The monumental case paves the way for legal action against Monsanto's Roundup and other harmful herbicides and pesticides made by other manufacturers.

How Genetically Modified Foods Could Affect Our Health in Unexpected Ways

Ari LeVaux, AlterNet. January 11, 2012.

Yet another reason to test GMOs for safety.

Why Is the State Department Using Our Money to Pimp for Monsanto?

Jill Richardson, AlterNet. October 31, 2011.

The State Department is using taxpayer money to help force genetically modified crops on other countries.

The 13 Best Hacker Attacks Against Military Security Companies, the FBI, the Kochs ... and Arizona

Julianne Escobedo Shepherd, AlterNet. July 16, 2011.

Hackers have declared war on anyone or anything that threatens to censor the Internet or its citizens. Here are some of their wildest targets.

5 WikiLeaks Revelations Exposing the Rapidly Growing Corporatism Dominating American Diplomacy Abroad

Rania Khalek, AlterNet. June 21, 2011.

One of WikiLeaks' greatest achievements has been to expose the exorbitant amount of influence that multinational corporations have over Washington's diplomacy.

El Salvadoran Government & Social Movements Say No to Monsanto

Carlos Martinez, AlterNet. May 26, 2011.

El Salvador's breadbasket has an alternative vision to the one that US biotech firms like Monsanto would like to impose: "food sovereignty."

Why Is Damning New Evidence About Monsanto's Most Widely Used Herbicide Being Silenced?

Jill Richardson, AlterNet. April 27, 2011.

It turns out that Monsanto's Roundup herbicide might not be nearly as safe as people have thought, but the media is staying mum on the revelation.

Organic Meat and Dairy Are About to Be History, But There Are Two Ways You Can Help Stop It

Ari LeVaux, AlterNet. February 11, 2011.

Even as the Obama administration is starting to look like the Monsanto administration, we can still fight back.

What the Heck Happened? The Politics of GM Alfalfa Explained

Marion Nestle, Food Politics. February 4, 2011.

How did the USDA's plan for peaceful coexistence among alfalfa growers end up with the agency approving GM alfalfa with no restrictions?

Why You Can Now Kiss Organic Beef, Dairy and Many Vegetables Goodbye

Ari LeVaux, AlterNet. January 28, 2011.

The USDA ruled that farmers are now free to plant GE alfalfa, and USDA won't even keep track of who plants it where. The implications are huge.

Have Corporations Hijacked the Word 'Sustainable'?

Jill Richardson, AlterNet. January 26, 2011.

Why we should not let Monsanto and friends decide the standards for sustainability.

WikiLeaks Cables Reveal U.S. Sought to Retaliate Against Europe over Refusing to Allow Monsanto GM Crops

Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez, Democracy Now!. December 28, 2010.

Then-U.S. ambassador to France Craig Stapleton was concerned about France's decision to ban cultivation of GM corn produced by Monsanto and threatened recourse.

The Year in Food: 2010's Best, Worst and Most Delicious Food Stories

Ari LeVaux, AlterNet. December 17, 2010.

A recent poll showed that most people thought the top three food stories of the year were all about food safety -- but there are many more that made our list.

Disney, Chevron and Monsanto Contracted with Blackwater for Intelligence, Training and Security Services

Jeremy Scahill, The Nation. September 16, 2010.

One of the most incendiary details in the documents is that Blackwater sought to become the "intel arm" of Monsanto, offering to provide operatives to infiltrate activist groups.

A Month Without Monsanto: What Does it Take to Cut out the GMO Giant?

April Dávila, YES! Magazine. August 26, 2010.

Once I started looking, Monsanto was everywhere.

Oily Crabs, Animal Rights and the Food Industry

Barry Estabrook, The Atlantic. July 9, 2010.

Big goings-on in the food world as of late: Gulf crabs are oiled up; Ohio mulls a new anti-cruelty farming initiative; farm workers reach out; and Monsanto takes yet another hit.

Haitian Farmers Fight Back Against Monsanto

Peter Constantini, IPS News. June 24, 2010.

Monsanto is only the latest perpetrator in a series of foreign aid exploitations committed against Haiti.

Haitian Farmers Refuse Monsanto's Seeds and Instead Commit to Burning Them

Sara Novak, TreeHugger. May 31, 2010.

Monsanto's seed donations were an unwelcomed gift to a country with vocal opposition to GMO seeds for fear they would ruin what little agriculture the country has left.

Is Elena Kagan Leading Us Toward a Pro-GMO Supreme Court?

Barry Estabrook, The Atlantic. May 14, 2010.

Kagan has a chance to show her true colors before being nominated. Do they include shades of green?

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