The great land swindle: big companies and rich individu […]
The latest book by science and environment author Fred Pearce is a breezy waltz through a key global problem that has yet to register with most people. In 2008, food prices around the world spiked, tipping many on the edges of poverty into crisis. But the rise in the cost of food also focused the minds of financiers, businessmen, oligarchs and
In Busan world leaders agreed aid should go to recipien […]
Last year world leaders gathered at the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Busan, South Korea to discuss the future of international aid. Amongst the negotiations and political wrangling there was one message that governments appeared to agree on: that the most effective and fairest way to administer international aid would be to hand
This Sept. 30, 2011 file photo shows a reflection of th […]
(MintPress) – Since February 2011, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has operated a social media surveillance program that targets key words in online posts. Recently, in light of a lawsuit filed by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) against the DHS to honor a Freedom of Information Act request, a list containing more than 500
Jerry Brown rally in Victory Park, Stockton. An AP repo […]
(MintPress) – Two California governors are coming under attack after an Associated Press (AP) review found that money collected to help victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks was used to reduce the state’s deficit rather than put towards a scholarship program, which is where the funds were meant to go. After the terrorist attacks in 2001,
This undated handout photo provided by the New York Sta […]
(NEW YORK) MintPress — For sale: A property in New York’s lush Hudson Valley, complete with a 16-car garage and surrounded by hundreds of yards of lakefront land. The catch: The seller is the State of New York and the building is an old prison. Indeed, Governor Andrew Cuomo declared in his first address to the State Legislature at the
Tom Richardson, right, from the National Association of […]
(MintPress) – As talks of closing hundreds of United States Postal Service branches escalated late last year, protests quickly followed. In a sign that the postal service has not become a mere oversight in a growing protest culture, reports over the weekend detailed the arrest of 12 demonstrators at a rally to protect the postal branches across the
