New research reveals that plant breeding, not genetic engineering, is responsible for yield increases in US crops

By Jill Richardson

Oops. The World Food Prize committee’s got a bit of egg on its face—genetically engineered egg. They just awarded the World Food Prize to three scientists, including one from Syngenta and one from Monsanto, who invented genetic engineering because, they say, the technology increases crop yields and decreases pesticide use. (Perhaps not coincidentally, Monsanto and Syngenta are major  ... Read more »

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Ok Glen, you owe some back taxes. In contrast, the US and UK have been hacking into the emails and other private communications of millions of their citizens and billions of people across the globe. And in the process have undermined the rule of law, democracy, and freedom; and have taken us one giant step towards a totalitarian state.

Please don't let them grind you down and please remember that people across the world are supremely grateful for what you and in particular Ed Snowden have done. Great job Mr Greenwald.

by Glenn Greenwald, guardian ... Read more »

Longtime sources have stopped talking to the Associated Press in response to the Obama administration’s secret seizure of the wire service’s phone records, said AP president Gary Pruitt on Wednesday during a speech at the National Press Club.

The Department of Justice admitted in May that it had secretly subpoenaed records on phone lines used by the AP as part of an investigation into the leaking of classified information during the spring of 2012. (See, "The AP spying scandal and the crisis of American democracy”)

The monitoring of the AP is part of a national and international spying program that has involved an unprecedented attack on democratic rights, including the freedom of the press and prohibitions against u ... Read more »