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- Database of Scientists with ties to food and drug industry
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website features 'Spin of the Day'; news about the masters of manipulation - Corporate Watch
about corporate power. Excellent site, with headlines, action alerts and more. - Green Change is a community of people with Green values: Justice, democracy, sustainability and non-violence, working together to share Green art, politics and culture.
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Instigating democratic conversations and actions that contest the authority of corporations to govern. - Multinational
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a monthly that tracks corporate activity, especially in the Third World, focusing on the export of hazardous substances, worker health and safety, labor union issues and the environment. Back issues available. - Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch Large site with information on multinational agreements like FTAA and MAI, action alerts, action packs.
- International Forum on Globalization educational books and articles
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stop the corporate takeover,
start our buycott - Information on Corporate Welfare. Many links.
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reports on stories most of the media won't touch. Political focus. - Vegan Outreach
promotes the lifestyle of veganism to contribute as little as possible to animal exploitation. - Killer Coke
Learn about the unscrupulous business practices of Coca-Cola - Center
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Anti-Food Slander Site - Mad Cowboy
Howard Lyman and the Oprah "Veggie Libel" Trial. UPDATE: In August 2002, Lyman and Oprah won - they finally got the case dismissed - after 5 years and millions of dollars in legal fees. - www.minimalmonth.org
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A book about Dow Chemical's hundred years of lies and poisonings. 
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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" - The
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E-newsletter from a public interest perspective, by farm journalist Al Krebs, monitoring corporate agribusiness. Focus on farm policy. - Pesticide
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News Headlines
- 10/04/08 - Farmers & Ranchers Mobilizing to Stop USDA's 'Big Brother' National Animal Identification System (NAIS)
- 10/04/08 - The Wall Street Mega Bailout: Bad News for the World's Hungry
- 10/04/08 - House Passes Bailout Bill Despite Massive Nationwide Protests--Several Articles
- 10/04/08 - Grassroots Opposition to the Bailout: The Revolution that Failed
- 10/03/08 - Presidential Crimes: Moving On is Not an Option
- 10/03/08 - Saying No to the Emerging Wall Street Dictatorship
- 10/03/08 - Senate Slips Huge $488 Billion Pentagon War Funding Bill in Under The Radar
- 10/03/08 - Shut Down $23 Trillion Dollars in Offshore Tax Havens & Tax Financial Speculators: A Global New Deal Instead of a Wall Street Bailout
- 10/03/08 - The Bailout: How the Media Sold Their Souls to Wall Street
- 10/02/08 - U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders: Bailout Passes Senate - Nine Reasons That's Bad News for You
- 10/02/08 - House Members Mobilize to Stop the Bogus Wall Street Bailout
- 10/02/08 - From Coast to Coast: Health Care Not Wealth Care?
- 10/01/08 - Eye-Opening Thoughts About the Bailout's Defeat
- 10/01/08 - After Bush Abuses, We Need New Farm Policies
- 10/01/08 - The Weekly Spin, October 1, 2008
- 10/01/08 - Why the Institutions of Western Finance and Western Medicine Are Both Doomed to Fail
- 10/01/08 - The IRS Leans Harder on Small Businesses
- 10/01/08 - What's Really Going On With the U.S. Economy
- 09/30/08 - Rejecting the Wall Street Bailout: The Shadow of the Pitchfork
- 09/30/08 - Congress, Under Enormous Pressure from the Public, Rejects Bailout of Wall Street
- 09/30/08 - Web Movie - Untold History of the Federal Reserve and Central Banking System (from Zeitgeist)
- 09/30/08 - Why America Should Listen to Ahmadinejad
- 09/29/08 - House and Global Investors Vote "No" on Paulson Bailout: Black Monday?
- 09/29/08 - Huge Nationwide Rallies Call for 'Green Jobs Now!'
- 09/29/08 - The First Debate: How McCain Blew It
- 09/29/08 - The Fiscally Insane Bailout Bill Might Not Pass -- Here's 5 Reasons It Shouldn't
- 09/27/08 - Wall Street Meltdown Primer
- 09/27/08 - National Protests Erupt Over Bailout Plan
- 09/26/08 - Gates Foundation Wants to Boost Local Agriculture in Developing Nations
- 09/26/08 - Green Party Presidential Candidate Cynthia McKinney: A Real Peoples' Bailout
- 09/26/08 - What the Economy Needs Now Are Good, Green Jobs
- 09/26/08 - Our Soy Habit Has Environmental Consequences
- 09/26/08 - Secrets and Shams of Political Polls
- 09/26/08 - Feds Give Customs Agents Free Hand to Seize Travelers' Documents
- 09/26/08 - The Financial Crisis and the Food Crisis: Two Sides of the Same Coin
- 09/26/08 - US Militarism Rising as Elections Loom
- 09/25/08 - As Wall Street Collapses, Will Washington Get a Clue?
- 09/25/08 - Consumer & Taxpayer Warning: Five Dangerous Aspects of Bush & McCain's Trillion Dollar Bailout
- 09/25/08 - Monsanto, Wall Street and the So-Called Regulators
- 09/25/08 - The Weekly Spin, September 24, 2008
- 09/25/08 - Bailout Backlash: Five Surprising Things That Happened on Thursday
- 09/25/08 - "Curse of Black Mesa" Took Down Lehman Bros
- 09/24/08 - Latest "Top 25 Censored Stories" from Project Censored
- 09/24/08 - Congress Is Resisting the Bailout Plan Now, But Wall Street Will Do Anything to Get Its Way
- 09/24/08 - Winter Soldier: Eye Witness Accounts of the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan: John Stauber
- 09/23/08 - Efforts to Halt the National Animal Identification System Head to Court
- 09/23/08 - Global Priorities: Feeding Markets, Starving the Hungry
- 09/23/08 - Growing Republican & Democratic Opposition to Wall Street Bail-Out as Polls Show Growing Public Opposition
- 09/23/08 - Why We Desperately Need to Address the Climate, Energy, Food, & Financial Crises Simultaneously
- 09/23/08 - Register to Vote!
- 09/23/08 - Grist Magazine On the Importance of Voting
- 09/23/08 - Promoting Wage Enforcement Laws as an Alternative to Anti-Immigrant Proposals
- 09/22/08 - America Betrayed: 2 Decade Orgy of Debt Now Double US' Net Worth
- 09/22/08 - 'Taxpayer Ripoff': Many Economists Skeptical of Bailout
- 09/22/08 - Our Financial 9/11: Can They Save the System?
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