Features
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Action! What can I do?
The following organizations give advice and information, and campaign on GM, food safety and sovereignty.
The farmer’s friend
Are farmers benefitting from growing GM crops, as Monsanto claims? Dionne Bunsha investigates.
Towards an understanding of the psychopathy of patient Monsanto
‘Patient Monsanto’ is analysed by Jason Louv.
Is Monsanto on the side of science?
Claire Robinson looks at what has happened to scientists who dare to say GM foods are not safe.
Total control
Monsanto has a mission. But where will it lead the rest of us? Vanessa Baird begins this month's investigation into one of the world's most powerful and hated corporations.
Race science rears its ugly head
Racism disguised as academic research must be robustly challenged, argues Gavin Evans.
Too great a toll
Dreaming of a better future, some 700,000 Indonesians each year join the ranks of migrant workers abroad. But many face exploitation, abuse and deception at the hands of their employers. Michael Malay travelled to the West Javan province of Indramayu to talk to some of those who have returned.
Power to the people?
Community micro-grids, government-controlled energy, or both? Three experts thrash out the options.
Why the war on wind?
Surveys tell us that the public love wind power, so why do certain countries see such fierce campaigns against it? Helle Abelvik-Lawson investigates.
Desertec: the renewable energy grab?
Desert solar plants planned for North Africa are just another exploitative resource grab, argues Hamza Hamouchene.
Take action on renewables
Some ideas and starting points on how you can help build a cleaner, fairer energy future.
From best to worst: renewable energy around the world
Inspiring examples of democratic, renewable energy – and also how not to do it.
Renewable energy - the facts
How much energy, how it's used and what we really need.
Whose renewable future?
Is big business poised to capture the renewables revolution? Danny Chivers draws up the battle lines.
The dictator and the popstar
How General Pinochet inadvertently helped create Chile’s thriving music scene. By Anne Hoffman.
The Unreported Year 2014
Stories that didn't make the mainstream media in 2014.
A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
John Perry Barlow’s visionary 1996 statement.
Mind your own business
Privacy International’s Eric King on resisting surveillance.
Privacy vs transparency
Not necessarily opposed, argues Sunil Abraham.
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