ALEC Offshoot Takes Aim at Local Government
ALEC, the corporate bill mill, is taking aim at cities and counties.
Corporations
ALEC Agenda: Gutting Medicaid, Privatizing Schools, LNG Exports
ALEC holds its 41st annual meeting in Dallas, Texas starting on Wednesday, July 30.
New Film on Controversial Wisconsin Mine to Tour State
Since 2011, a fight has been raging over a proposed open pit iron mine in northern Wisconsin.
Charles Koch, Modern Robber Baron, Exposed
Proof that Charles was a member of the John Birch Society.
A National Call to Link Arms for Detroit, July 18
On July 18, thousands of activists will gather to reclaim the Motor City--and democracy.
McCutcheon’s Supreme Cynicism
One of the many outrageous aspects of the U.S. Supreme Court's McCutcheon v. FEC decision is how blatantly it served the interests of the very wealthiest.
Narrow Supreme Court Majority Gives Corporations Freedom of Conscience; Justice Ginsburg Objects
President Bush's appointee, Justice Samuel Alito, declares that corporations have a right to discriminate based on religious beliefs.
Feeding Hawai'i, a Special Report
For Chris Kobayashi and her husband, Dimi Rivera, it all started with Japanese cucumbers. "In 1997 we said, 'OK, let's grow Japanese cucumbers, but let's grow it organically,'" Kobayashi tells me as we walk around her farm in Hanalei Bay on Kaua'i's North Shore. "You know, because they are crispy, crunchy, and yummy and you can eat the skin and everything."
Contamination of Natural Kaua'i: Rare Plants and Wildlife at Risk
Given its fragile and unusually rich ecology, the Hawaiian island of Kaua'i seems ill-suited as a site for agricultural experiments that use heavy amounts of toxic chemicals. But four transnational corporations -- Syngenta, BASF Plant Science, DuPont Pioneer, and Dow AgroSciences -- have been doing just those kinds of experiments here for about two decades, extensively spraying pesticides on their GMO test fields. As a result, the landscape on the southwest corner of the island has become one of the most toxic chemical environments in all of American agriculture.
Pesticide and GMO Companies Spend Big in Hawai'i
Hawai'i has become "ground zero" in the controversy over genetically modified (GMO) crops and pesticides. The out-of-state pesticide and GMO firms Syngenta, Monsanto, DuPont Pioneer, Dow Chemical, BASF, and Bayer CropScience have brought substantial sums of corporate cash into the state's relatively small political arena.
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