G8 Brings Big Ag Colonialism to Africa

It's the usual neoliberal "solution": big foreign companies lobby for permission to "invest", which means taking control.

The G8 New Alliance facilitates investors' "access to land", which means local people lose their land and end up in penury.

Another aspect is pushing farmers to seeds they can't reproduce. This makes them dependent on agribusiness and reduces diversity.

The G8 New Alliance also threatens Ethiopia's distributed seed bank.

Refuting the apologists for the 1%'s class war.

The UK's excuse to crush the poor is to demand they futilely apply for jobs at a grueling pace, or be left to starve.

This "culture of fear" often leads to hunger and homelessness.

North Carolina riverbed coated by toxic coal ash, officials say.

Now we see why same-sex marriage rights have gained so much in the US: businesses want to be able to hire gay professionals.

Legalizing same-sex marriage is the right thing to do. But if we need to depend on business support to win for a worthy cause, we can't defeat the plutocrats' class war that is driving most Americans, gay or straight, into poverty.

The Casualty of America's Same-Sex Marriage Fight: Civil Unions.