Sunday, December 22, 2024

Happy 2016! These CEOs Have Already Banked An Average Worker’s Salary

Country's 100 top-paid executives took home an average of $8.96 million in 2014

U.S. Escalates Battle to Keep Guantánamo Force-Feeding Tapes Hidden

A federal judge had given the government until Friday to release footage in which a Syrian detainee was force-fed. The government has now appealed.

Bernie Sanders: The Only US Presidential Candidate Supporting GMO Labeling

Bernie Sanders is the only U.S. Presidential candidate who has come out strongly in support of GMO labeling. For this reason Sustainable Pulse has collected a few of his quotes.

A Journalist Is Exposing How the FBI Targets Animal Activists as ‘Terrorists’

Will Potter’s reporting reveals what he believes is an assault on free speech in defense of big profits for Big Ag.

Hollywood Walk of Fame Receives Black Lives Matter Makeover

Stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame had the names of people killed by police officers glued onto them.

Organic Farmers Score New Victory in ‘David and Goliath’ GMO Fight

Jackson County, Oregon wins new protections against cultivation of genetically engineered crops.

EPA Releases Study on Pesticides Killing Bees, Gets Sued Immediately by Beekeepers

“A single seed coated with a neonicotinoid insecticide is enough to kill a songbird.”

A Bioengineered Tree Could Revive America’s Once-Vast Chestnut Forests

Scientists discover a gene that makes chestnuts resistant to a fungus that killed off billions of trees that provided food and shelter for wildlife.

Let’s End Torture in U.S. Prisons

Survivors call solitary confinement “living death.”

GMA Found Guilty of $11 Million Cover Up in GMO Labeling Fight

In a decision made public late Friday, a Thurston County Superior Court judge ruled the Grocery Manufacturer’s Association violated Washington campaign finance disclosure laws by shielding the identities of major corporate donors funding efforts to defeat a food labeling initiative in Washington.