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Drug giants fined $11bn for criminal wrongdoing
Fines are not enough to reform drug industry, warn lawyers
By Jeremy Laurance
19 September 2012
The global pharmaceutical industry has racked up fines of more...
The Opioid Epidemic in America – Killing One Million People
The Triumph of Capital (Creating a Domestic ‘Shithole’)
By James Petras and Robin Eastman-Abaya
The link between capitalism and drugs reaches back to the middle...
Qui sont les vrais pilleurs de l’Afrique et du Congo ?
Par Tony Busselen
20 Jan 2018
« Les dirigeants africains sont les nouveaux pilleurs coloniaux d’aujourd’hui » titrait récemment un site néerlandais. Un ami belge, observateur du Congo,...
L’Europe, principal obstacle sur la route d’un traité international contre l’impunité...
par Olivier Petitjean
20 décembre 2017
Bientôt un nouveau traité international sur les multinationales, permettant de rééquilibrer la balance entre respect des droits humains et droit...
Drug giants fined $11bn for criminal wrongdoing
Fines are not enough to reform drug industry, warn lawyers
By Jeremy Laurance
19 September 2012
The global pharmaceutical industry has racked up fines of more than...
Former advertising executive reveals junk food-pushing tactics
Dan Parker spent two decades working with ‘big food’ corporations – until obesity-related type 2 diabetes made him decide to change direction
By Sarah Boseley
A...
Pharma Multinationals and Imperialism
"I do give a damn"
After years of writing superior spy thrillers, author David Cornwell, aka John Le Carré, has evolved into an impassioned political...
Shell Accused of Committing Horrific Crimes in Nigeria’s Ogoniland
Saro-Wiwa, who led a nonviolent campaign against environmental degradation of the land and waters of Ogoniland by Shell was executed by the Nigerian military...
Nuclear Madness
April 5, 2017
This Madness Deserves a Protest: an Inside Account at US Nuclear Weapons Strategy
by Joan Roelofs
“In contrast to the Soviet Union, the United...
Committing Geocide: Climate Change And Corporate Capture By Susan George
I am not here to promote the deep ecology view. I am here rather to introduce and define what I see as a new phenomenon in the history of humankind. I call it Geocide. Geocide is the collective action of a single species among millions of other species which is changing planet Earth to the point that it can become unrecognisable and unfit for life. This species is committing geocide against all components of nature, whether microscopic organisms, plants, animals or against itself, homo sapiens, humankind.