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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.