WASHINGTON — Nearly a dozen years after the hijackings that transformed America, President Obama said Thursday that it was time to narrow the scope of the grinding battle against terrorists and begin the transition to a day when the country will no longer be on a war footing.
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Biggest GOP food stamp foe gets huge farm subsidies
WASHINGTON — A Tennessee congressman who supports billions of dollars in cuts to the food stamp program is one of the largest recipients of federal farm subsidies, according to new annual data released by a Washington environmental group.
Forty organizations that are shaking up the food system
Since our launch in January, Food Tank has worked to amplify the messages of groups working around the world to improve the food system.
The 40 organizations we’re highlighting today are doing invaluable work to change the way we eat, grow, cook, buy, and sell food. Our hope is that the more people know about the work that these groups are doing, the more people can be inspired to make their own change in the food system.
Darfur conflict displaces 300,000 in five months, UN says
Some 300,000 people have fled resurgent fighting in Sudan’s Darfur region in the first five months of this year, the UN’s top humanitarian official said.
This was more than the number of people displaced there over the last two years put together, Valerie Amos said.
Low-wage workers picket outside federal buildings
Federal contract employees at some of the nation’s best-known landmarks walked off their jobs Tuesday during a day of protests over low wages and lack of benefits.The day-long strike was organized by a group called Good Jobs Nation on behalf of the workers who serve the food and run the cash registers at museums and offices in the heart of the federal city. Some workers said they were being paid less than the federal minimum wage of $7.25, and some said they were working in a government building despite being in the country illegally.
US committees reject proposal on foreign food aid
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US firm forced to delay $350 million Cameroon plantation project
Heavily criticised by environmentalists for gutting out huge swathes of equatorial forests in southwestern Cameroon to set up a large-scale palm oil plantation, New York-based firm Herakles Farms has suspended the $350 million project.
More seniors living in poverty—one in seven
An alternative census estimate shows that more of America’s seniors than originally thought are living in poverty — and that means the poverty rate could spike under certain Medicare reforms, a new analysis finds.
The Goodman Affair: Monsanto targets the heart of science
Richard Smith, former editor of the British Medical Journal, has jested that instead of scientific peer review, its rival The Lancet had a system of throwing a pile of papers down the stairs and publishing those that reached the bottom. On another occasion, Smith was challenged to publish an issue of the BMJ exclusively comprising papers that had failed peer review and see if anybody noticed. He replied, “How do you know I haven’t already done it?”
Apple’s web of tax shelters saved it billions, panel finds
WASHINGTON — Even as Apple became the nation’s most profitable technology company, it avoided billions in taxes in the United States and around the world through a web of subsidiaries so complex it spanned continents and went beyond anything most experts had ever seen, Congressional investigators disclosed on Monday.
