This article is published under the title “U.S. Version – Biotech Ambassadors: How the U.S. State Department Promotes the Seed Industry’s Global Agenda” on May 14, 2013 by Food and Water Watch, on their website. Food and Water Watch is an international non profit organization that promotes policies of sustainable and secure food systems, advocates for public control of water resources and services and work to stop the financialization of...
Peter Van Buren, a foreign service officer who wrote an unflattering book about his year leading reconstruction teams in Iraq, has received the support of the American Civil Liberties Union in his effort to keep his job. In a letter last week, the ACLU urged the State Department not to fire Van Buren and said the agency is violating his constitutional rights by trying to terminate him. “There can be...
Peter Van Buren, a foreign service officer who wrote an unflattering book about his year leading two reconstruction teams in Iraq, was stripped of his security clearance, banned from State Department headquarters for a time and transferred to a telework job that consists of copying Internet addresses into a file. Now the State Department is moving to fire him based on eight charges, ranging from linking on his blog to...
Video streaming by Ustream [ 00h02m20 - Vaughn Smith] Good Afternoon. Welcome to todays Wikileaks press conference at Frontline Club. Its being livestreamed on ustream.tv/frontlineclub. This press conference is independent, but the Frontline Club is proud to host it and as the Frontline Club’s founder, I am personally very interested in it. As a journalist and ex-soldier, like many, I have become troubled by the rapid corporateization of war. It...
The US tried pressuring Canada into closing down safe injection facilities for addicts. Cables also show that a Bangladeshi top commander told US officials that extra-judicial killings were ‘necessary.’ Christopher Schwartz in a thorough analysis describes the initial reactions to WikiLeaks in Central Asia after the release of the Afghan War Diaries, the Iraq War Logs, and the US State Department cables. All this and more in this week’s press...
The recent publication of over 250,000 US State Department cables has resulted in a flood of articles being published by press and media outlets around the world, particularly in Africa, where revelations from the cables threaten the status quo, and have resulted in threats of censorship and legal action by politicians in Zimbabwe. Stories last week also illuminated US fears of growing indigenous peoples’ rights movements in Latin America, US...
RT @brokep: The most vital part of the case against Anakata is: why did a privately owned company hold secret citizen data instead of the g…about 3 days agofrom web
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