The Nigerian government is being urged by 5 million citizens to reject Monsanto’s attempts to introduce genetically modified (GMO) cotton and maize into the country’s food and farming systems. Monsanto doesn’t seek to feed the world, it seeks to control the food supply. At least, that’s the general consensus reached by millions who have been educated on Read More…
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Nestlé Is Trying to Take Over This Small American Town’s Water Supply
Texas — Nestlé, the Swiss multinational corporation whose CEO has been known to say that clean drinking water is ‘not a human right,’ is at it again. Recently, the company paid only $524 to extract 27,000,000 gallons of California’s drinking water in the middle of one of the worst droughts the state has ever seen, but they’ve Read More…
#DemocracySpring Has Sprung, With 140-Mile March Before DC Sit-Ins, Arrests
Taking their first steps “along the path to a better future,” roughly 150 people on Saturday began a 140-mile march from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C., marking the official launch of the mass civil disobedience campaign known as Democracy Spring. “Some of us will have never marched for anything,” read a statement from the movement in Read More…
Verge of Revolution: The Story You Aren’t Being Told About the Brazilian Uprising
March 31, 2016 | Clarice Palmer São Paulo, Brazil — As online publications have hailed the major protests overtaking the streets of Brazil at the outset of an apparent political revolution, few discuss the problems that have been brewing for decades in South America’s largest nation. While Brazilians are angry and tired of Read More…
A Bernie Sanders Supporter Confronted A Superdelegate & Then Leaked Their Private Conversation
It came out publicly not too long ago that the democratic political system in the US doesn’t quite work the way many people had imagined. When senior GOP official Curly Haugland told CNBC that he isn’t even sure why caucuses are held, considering the votes don’t matter, it validated what many who criticize the political system have Read More…
New Law Allows Unlimited Amounts of Secret Money Into Elections
When a divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of Citizens United in 2010, it reshaped the political landscape by opening the floodgates to what is known as “dark money.” Unlimited amounts of secret cash can now be funneled to political candidates from entities posing as nonprofit organizations, and the public has no right to Read More…






