All Views Articles for 2012-09-23

Sunday, September 23, 2012
Marie-Monique Robin
'The World According to Monsanto': Fighting a Global Agribusiness Through the Power of Film
A giant, multinational agribusiness is using its market share and patent system to spread genetically modified crops throughout the world
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Vandana Shiva
Myths About Industrial Agriculture
Organic farming is the "only way to produce food" without harming the planet and people's health
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David Sirota
Drug Dealers Protecting Their Turf
If you heard a drug dealer denigrate his competitor's product as unsafe, would you trust his criticism? Or would you think he's a hypocrite with ulterior motives? Last week, thanks to Democratic Gov...
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Robert C. Koehler
The Innocence of U.S. Foreign Policy
Last Saturday's headline in the Wall Street Journal was: “Anti-U.S. Mobs on Rampage.” The next day, a NATO airstrike killed eight women collecting firewood in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan, an...
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Thomas S. Harrington
If a Million People March for Catalan Independence in Barcelona, Do They Make Noise?
On September 11th, over a million people took to the streets in a European city that has, in recent years, become one of the more popular tourist destinations in the world. And as anyone who has was...
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Philip Caper
Let the Buyer Beware in a Free-Market Health Care System
For the past 30 years or so, a debate about the proper place for competition vs. regulation in our health care system has raged. That debate has now become a central theme in the 2012 presidential...
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Anna M Clark
America's Miasma of Misinformation on Climate Change
With serious reporting of global warming by US media virtually nonexistent, it's no wonder Americans are paralyzed in denial
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