Politics & Democracy

Links

• Common Dreams
• PR Watch
  
• Corporate Watch
  
• Smirking Chimp
• Daily Kos
• Information Clearinghouse
• Yes! Magazine
• Counterpunch
• Ode Magazine
• Z Magazine
• Program on Corporations, Law & Democracy POCLAD
  
• International Forum on Globalization
  
• Information on Corporate Welfare
• The Nation Magazine 
• Killer Coke
  
• Center for Science in the Public Interest
  
• Mad Cowboy 
  

Newsletters

• The Agribusiness Examiner
  
• Pesticide Action Network Updates Service
  
• Rachel's Environment and Health Weekly
  
• OCA Newsletters

Related OCA Sections

Monitoring the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP)
SPP is an initiative sparked by heavy lobbying from corporations with vested interests in the economic and agricultural homogenization of the North American continent.

Planting Peace
A Resource Center for news and activities that seek to build a powerful coalition to bring about cooperation and synergy between the peace movement, the climate crisis movement, and the organic community.

Resources

• Database of Scientists with ties to food and drug industry
• The revolving door between Monsanto and the Executive Branch
• Recent mergers in the food industry: who owns the natural foods companies?
• Fact Sheet on Wal-Mart: The Death Star of American Commerce

Books

• Food Is Different:
  Why the WTO Should Get out of Agriculture
  Clear and accessible reporting of the impact of trade liberalisation on farming and, more particularly, on small farmers throughout the world.
• Trespass Against Us
  A book about Dow Chemical's hundred years of lies and poisonings.
• Weapons of Mass Deception Rave Reviews for John Stauber & Sheldon Rampton's Book
• Trust Us - We're the Experts
  by Stauber & Rampton. Exposes Corporate Public Relations' Use of "Junk Science"
• Corporate Predators
  "How are corporations tightening their grip on the global political economy? How does this affect you?" by Robert Mokhiber and Russell Weissman
• Whose Trade Organization? Corporate Globalization and the Erosion of Democracy
  Preface by Ralph Nader. "The five-year track record of the WTO in everyday language"
• Hope's Edge
  In Hope's Edge, we travel to five continents searching for answers to the most challenging question of our time: Why are we as societies creating the very inequalities and environmental devastation that as individuals we abhor? And we look for pathways we each can walk to create more meaningful lives--contributing to a more just world and one in harmony with nature. More info/order