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- 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
Links
- PR Watch
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.
- Program on Corporations,
Law &
Democracy POCLAD
Instigating democratic conversations and actions that contest the authority of corporations to govern. - Multinational
Monitor
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
- GreenPeople
stop the corporate takeover,
start our buycott - Information on Corporate Welfare. Many links.
- The Nation Magazine
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
for Science
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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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Books, Listservs, Newsletters
- 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" - The
Agribusiness Examiner
E-newsletter from a public interest perspective, by farm journalist Al Krebs, monitoring corporate agribusiness. Focus on farm policy. - Pesticide
Action Network Updates Service
PANUPS is a free international news service covering the latest pesticide research, regulatory and other policy decisions, and pesticide- and agriculture-related activism. Some issues of PANUPS are Resource Pointers, which briefly describe new books, reports and other resources related to pesticides, sustainable agriculture and genetic engineering. - Rachel's Environment
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Searchable Newsletter - Organic Consumers Association newsletters
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- 05/08/08 - Five-Part You Tube Debate on Third Parties
- 05/08/08 - The Polluting Of The Environmental Protection Agency
- 05/08/08 - Farmland is Vastly Overpriced--The Next Mortgage Boom & Bust Will Devastate Rural America
- 05/08/08 - The Weekly Spin, May 7, 2008
- 05/08/08 - Newsweek Provides a Glimpse of the World Elite: What Power Looks Like
- 05/08/08 - Federal Lab Officials Admit to Utah Physicist, Dr. Steven Jones, That They Can't Explain the Total Collapse of the Twin Towers on 9/11
- 05/08/08 - Burger King Caught Spying on Student Farmworker Activists in Florida
- 05/08/08 - The Pentagon vs. the U.S.: How Americans Have Become Targets of Their Own Military
- 05/08/08 - Even Wall Street Admits Real Solution to World Food Crisis is Helping Poor Farmers Sustainably Grow More Food
- 05/08/08 - Latest Media Coverage & Congressional Debate on the Biofuels Hoax & World Food Crisis
- 05/08/08 - Is Immigration Off the Table in Election 2008?
- 05/07/08 - Remembering Kent State Shooting Victims
- 05/07/08 - Important New Book Exposes Election Fraud 2000-2008
- 05/07/08 - Consumer Groups Champion Internet Freedom Preservation Act
- 05/07/08 - Will the White Collar Criminals Who Have Wrecked the Economy Ever Do Time?
- 05/07/08 - Democrat Leaders Continue to Supply Funding for the War
- 05/07/08 - Racial Disparities Persist in Drug Arrests
- 05/07/08 - 66 Deaths in Immigrant Prisons Signal Need to Shut Down ICE
- 05/06/08 - Second Largest US Physicians Group Endorses Medical Marijuana
- 05/06/08 - Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer's U.S. Senate Race Picks Up Speed
- 05/06/08 - Ouster of Sierra Club's Florida Leaders Stirs up a Storm of Controversy
- 05/06/08 - Biofuels: Disaster for Food, People & The Planet--Short You Tube Video
- 05/06/08 - Wake Up Obama & Hillary & McCain: New Poll Says 68% of Americans Want to Bring Troops Home within Six Months
- 05/06/08 - Few Details on Immigrants Who Died in Custody
- 05/05/08 - Obama: The Lesser of Three Evils
- 05/05/08 - What the Pentagon Pundits Were Selling on the Side: Propaganda Meets Corporate Lobbying
- 05/05/08 - Update on Political Situation in Mexico May 5, 2008
- 05/05/08 - Farm Bill: Billions for Corporate Agribusiness with Nickles & Dimes for Organics
- 05/05/08 - Giant Food & Biotech Corporations Make Billions in Profit from Growing Global Food Crisis
- 05/05/08 - The Lost Supermarket
- 05/04/08 - The Gospel of Consumption
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- 05/03/08 - The New Green/Biotech Revolution And World Food Prices
- 05/03/08 - North Dakota Man Facing Years in Prison After Buying Salvia Divinorum on eBay
- 05/03/08 - Top Political News Stories of the Week--May 2, 2008
- 05/03/08 - White House Scrambles to Keep Up with Global Food Crisis--Still Claiming Gene-Altered Crops Will Feed the World
- 05/02/08 - Advertising Watchdog Receives Record Complaints Over Corporate 'Greenwash'
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- 05/02/08 - Big Pharma Digs In as World Health Crisis Grows Worse
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- 05/02/08 - Popular Radio Announcer Ousted After Ripping Monsanto's Goon Squads
- 05/02/08 - Crumbcatchers: America's Political, Economic, & Social Crisis Intensifies
- 05/02/08 - Mythmaking and Democracy
- 05/02/08 - Bush Lawyer Won't Say if Congress can Limit President's Power
- 05/01/08 - Justice Dept. OKs Harsh Interrogation Tactics
- 05/01/08 - Cheney Lawyer Claims Congress Has No Authority Over Vice-President
- 05/01/08 - FDA Faulted for Approving Dangerous Studies of Artificial Blood
- 05/01/08 - US Senator Russ Feingold Statement at Hearing on 'Secret Law and the Threat to Democratic and Accountable Government'
- 05/01/08 - Mexico Update: Counter-Attack by Mexico's Right Wing Against Peaceful Civil Resistance Movement
- 05/01/08 - The Global Ruling Class
- 05/01/08 - Bush Confesses to Waterboarding: Arrest Bush
- 05/01/08 - US Sacrificing Workers' Rights for Colombia FTA
- 05/01/08 - Grain Companies' Profits Soar As Global Food Crisis Mounts
- 05/01/08 - Critics Fault Industry's Influence
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