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The GMO biotech sector is involved in a multi-pronged campaign to influence governments and the public about the benefits of its products. It uses various means.

 It sets up or infiltrates institutions and co-opts prominent political and scientific figures to do its bidding (1).

It hijacks regulatory and policy making bodies (2,3). With help from the US Government, it assumes strategic importance in international trade negotiations and is then able to set a policy and research agenda, as ... Read more »

Category: Health, Enviroment, Nature | Views: 608 | Added by: LIBertea | Date: 2014/05/18 | Comments (0)

How Thomas Piketty and Elizabeth Warren demolished the conventional wisdom on debt

Those who fall into debt are shamed for spending irresponsibly. But the truth of the matter is much more alarming

How Thomas Piketty and Elizabeth Warren demolished the conventional wisdom on debtElizabeth Warren, Thomas Piketty (Credit: Reuters/Joshua Roberts/Charles Platiau)

In a 2006 “Saturday Night Live” sketch, Chris Parnell sums up t ... Read more »

Category: Economics | Views: 574 | Added by: LIBertea | Date: 2014/05/18 | Comments (1)

Congratulations, class of 2014: You’re totally screwed

College costs more and more, even as it gets objectively worse. Only people worse off than indebted grads: adjuncts

Congratulations, class of 2014: You're totally screwed

Welcome to the wide world, Class of 2014. You have by now noticed the tremendous consignment of debt that the authorities at your college have spent the last four years loading on your shoulders. It may interest you to know that the average student-loan borrower among you is now ... Read more »

Category: Economics | Views: 497 | Added by: LIBertea | Date: 2014/05/18 | Comments (1)

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