Opinions
You won’t love these McSubsidies. Taxpayers will shell out $1.2 billion this year to support workers subjected to McDonald’s miserly wages and...
Let us all now bow before the god of free enterprise, whose awesomeness was revealed in a recent news release announcing that the divine managers of fast-food deity McDonald’s achieved a profit of $1.5 billion in just three months this summer....
GMO Wars: The global battlefield. The case against GMOs has strengthened steadily over the last few years, even as the industry has expanded all over ...
The GMO wars escalated earlier this month when the 2013 World Food Prize was awarded to three chemical company executives, including Monsanto executive vice president and chief technology officer, Robert Fraley, responsible for development of genetically modified organisms (GMOs)....
NGOs must give up power
The international development Non Governmental Organizations (INGOs) are rightly very proud of their history: they have saved lives, helped people get through the toughest moments, and shown those who feel alone that others care. But if NGOs are to help contribute to a better future, they will need ...
Berta Cáceres is still alive: In the face of escalating repression, Honduran indigenous groups are standing against transnational plunder
Berta, as she is fondly known by her many friends in Honduras and beyond, is a Lenca indigenous woman, and one of the founding directors of the National Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH)....
Genetically modified foods: What is and isn’t true
Welcome to Unearthed, an effort that will dig deep to try and figure out what’s true and what isn’t in the debate about our food supply....
Too high a price for courage: The Honduran government should stop repressing indigenous leaders like Berta Cáceres
Berta Cáceres, an internationally respected leader of the movement for indigenous rights, is now living as a fugitive. The Honduran government ordered this soft-spoken dynamo imprisoned on September 20....
The end of poverty, soon
Appealing for peace 50 years ago, President John F. Kennedy told the Irish Parliament, “The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics, whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were and ask, why not?”...
Growth or safety net? Eradicating extreme poverty is no longer a pipe dream. But first governments must agree on their approach
“I AM not aware of any maternal deaths in the community in the past two or three years,” says the medic on duty at a remote rural clinic in the Terai, Nepal’s lowlands. ...
How to bring farmers markets to the urban poor
For almost 20 years, I’ve sold tomatoes, basil, lettuce, kale and other vegetables at the Takoma Park Farmers Market on Sundays during the summer season. It’s one of several markets my wife helped start at the dawn of the farmers market movement....
America’s sinking middle class
In some respects, 1988 has the feel of an alien, distant era. There was no such thing as the World Wide Web then. The Soviet Union was still around; the Berlin Wall still standing....
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