Oily Hijack: Corporate Hegemony And The Keystone Pipeline EIS

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Mass Layoffs Hit North America, Europe And Japan
By Kate Randall

http://www.countercurrents.org/randall070214.htm

A wave of layoff announcements over the past week has exposed the reality of the economic “recovery” touted by the Obama administration and governments worldwide. Deep-going job cuts are hitting the manufacturing, pharmaceutical, technology and retail sectors across North America, Europe and Japan


Lifting The Siege Of Yarmouk One Food Parcel & One Polio Vaccination At A Time
By Franklin Lamb

http://www.countercurrents.org/lamb070214.htm

Up to this morning, approximately 5,300 food parcels have been allowed into Yarmouk or an average of 800-1,000 food packages daily. Aid has been entering sporadically and sometimes chaotically, with perceptible but slight increases over the past week


Fukushima’s Future
By Bob Stilger

http://www.countercurrents.org/stilger070214.htm

When communities are devastated by disasters like earthquakes and nuclear explosions, how can they recover? In Fukushima, Japan, transformation may be the only option


Oily Hijack: Corporate Hegemony And The Keystone Pipeline EIS
By Joanne Knight

http://www.countercurrents.org/knight070214.htm

The oil industry has corrupted the Keystone XL environmental assessment process just as it has hijacked the climate change debate and interfered with action on climate change. Reading the Department of State Environmental Impact Statement, it is clear whose interests are served by this report. The confluence of arguments presented in the report with the arguments of the American Petroleum Institute is stunning. Environment Resource Management, the company contracted to produce the report, is being investigated by the Department of State for conflict of interest in producing the EIS


Moving Beyond The Corporate Vision Of Sustainability
By Rajesh Makwana

http://www.countercurrents.org/makwana070214.htm

In light of ongoing global negotiations on pressing environmental issues, it’s time for efforts to curtail the excessive influence of multinational corporations over public policy to be strengthened and scaled up at all levels – especially at the United Nations


The Deceptions And Falsehoods Of The GMO Lobby:
Acquiesce Or Europe Will Become “ Museum of World Farming”
By Colin Todhunter

http://www.countercurrents.org/todhunter070214.htm

British Environment Secretary Owen Paterson is a staunch supporter of the GMO sector. Despite mounting evidence pointing to the deleterious health, social, ecological and environmental impacts of GMOs, Paterson has a blind spot that lets him ignore reality and allows him to lend unconditional support to the biotech conglomerates, the very concerns that regard Europe as a massive potential cash cow from which their GM crops have till now mostly been barred or restricted. Paterson recently told the Oxford Farming Conference that Europe is likely to become "the museum of world farming" because of its failure to embrace genetically modified crops


Mass Graves Discovery Gives A New Twist To The Issue Of Baloch Missing Persons
By Abdus Sattar Ghazali

http://www.countercurrents.org/ghazali070214.htm

Discovery of three mass graves in Khuzdar has given a new twist to the issue of the missing persons in Pakistan's Balochistan province. The Deputy Commissioner of Khuzdar Abdul Waheed Shah on Tuesday confirmed the discovery of the three mass graves