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- What you need to know about the corporate takeover of the organic food market
- 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.
- 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.
- http://www.killercoke.org - Learn about the unscrupulous business practices of Coca-Cola
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Links - Center for Science in the Public Interest: 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.
Books, Listservs, Newsletters Top | - 1/3/2005 - "Trespass Against Us" a new book about Dow Chemical Company's hundred years of lies and poisonings.
- 8/8/2003 - Rave Reviews for John Stauber & Sheldon Rampton's New Book:Weapons of Mass Deception
- Jan 2001 - New book 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"
- E-newsletter: Monitoring corporate agribusiness from a public interest perspective, by farm journalist Al Krebs. 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.
- Newsletter: Rachel's Environment and Health Weekly. Searchable.
- Organic Consumers Assn newsletters
Also in Spanish. Some relevant back issues: - Sept, 2000:Why Americans Are Voting with their Forks, Knives, & Pocketbooks
- Feb. 3, 2000: Agbiotech: Trouble in the Garden (Part 1); Rachel's 685
- Nov. 4, 1999: The WTO Turns Back the Clock Rachel #675
- Oct 28, 1999 - The WTO and Free Trade--Taking a Closer Look at the New World Order of the Transnational Corporations - Rachel #674
- Oct, 23, 1997 - Trends in Corporate Accountability
- Oct, 16, 1997 - Rachel #567: The Nature of World War III (Part 2)
- Oct, 9, 1997 - Rachel #567: The Nature of World War III (Part 1)
- July 10 '97 Toxic Deception (Rachel's #554).
- March 20, 1997: Regulation of toxic chemicals in the U.S., focus on Monsanto
- Fixing Corporations Part 1: Legacy Of The Founding Parents
 In Hope's Edge, we travel to five continents searching for answers to the most challenging question of our time: Why are we as societies creating the very inequalities and environmental devastation that as individuals we abhor? And we look for pathways we each can walk to create more meaningful lives--contributing to a more just world and one in harmony with nature. More info/order |
The revolving door between Monsanto and the Executive Branch revised November 2002 - Is the old Monsanto the same as the new Monsanto?
- Gwendolyn S. King, member of Monsanto Board of Directors since 1993, served as Commissioner of Social Security under President George Bush.,
- March 2001: Charles W. Burson was appointed General Counsel for Monsanto. He he served in the White House as Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff to Vice President Al Gore. Earlier, Burson was Counsel to the Vice President.
- Michael (Mickey) Kantor, former secretary of the Department of Commerce and former US trade representative under President Clinton, is a member of Monsanto?s Board of Directors
- Margaret Miller, former chemical laboratory supervisor for Monsanto, is the deputy director of Human Food Safety and Consultative Services, New Animal Drug Evaluation Office, and the Center for Veterinary Medicine in the FDA
- May '97 Dr. Virginia Weldon VP for Public Policy at Monsanto Chemical was a "top candidate" to become Commissioner of the FDA
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