U.S. District Court Judge Robert Wilkins heard the arguments on Friday in Washington, D.C., and is deliberating now on the question of whether young people can sue to compel their government to take serious measures to stop global warming.  Judge Robert Wilkins is familiar with discrimination, having been the plaintiff... » read this article

CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ........................................................ 2 INTRODUCTION ................................................................. 3 Methodology .................................................................... 4 What is a forest?............................................................... 4 Who are indigenous peoples? ............................................... 5 Who are forest peoples? ..................................................... 7 TABLE A: Forest peoples¡¦ numbers by region ......................... 8 Forest peoples¡¦ numbers by type of dependence .................... 8 TABLE B(1) ....................................................................... 8... » read this article

“If you want to create a change, you must challenge not only the models of Unreality, but the paradigms that underwrite them.” - Stafford Beer Imagine you are a 7-month-old baby and your older brother or sister is about 520-years-old. Wouldn’t you want to know something about how he/she has... » read this article

Editor's Note: Now that the corporations have penetrated Mother Earth, on every continent, polluting rivers and pristine wilderness and robbing indigenous people of the wealth beneath their homes and villages we have this new for-profit adventure. Of all places for billionaires to put their money as national economies collapse and... » read this article

21 April 2012 Two years ago yesterday, an explosion at the BP-run Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico killed 11 workers and unleashed an oil spill that resulted in the worst environmental catastrophe in US history. Before it was finally capped nearly three months later, the erupting... » read this article

EcoWatch reveals shocking information of a BP cover-up of a blow-out prior to the deadly Deepwater Horizon explosion in the Gulf. Special report from the Caspian sea. for Ecowatch.org by investigative reporter Greg Palast Source: EcoWatch.org via Youtube About Greg Palast, Journalist Greg Palast is the author of the New... » read this article

Editor's Note: We are grateful to Mankh, our resident poet, for writing this very moving poem to help us stop to remember our home ... our Mother ... on Earth Day, Sunday April 22, 2012. Mankh's poem combined with this performance by John Trudell, Bad Dog and Buffy Saint Marie... » read this article

The Ngäbe-Buglé people are fighting back on multiple fronts against big business, the Panamanian regime of Ricardo Martinelli and even the United Nations - in our terms - Global Corporate Empire. Martinelli, a former business tycoon and friend of Washington is bent on crushing the Ngäbe-Buglé with with his riot... » read this article

"If you put a label on genetically engineered food you might as well put a skull and crossbones on it." -- Norman Braksick, president of Asgrow Seed Co., a subsidiary of Monsanto quoted in the Kansas City Star, March 7, 1994 "Monsanto should not have to vouchsafe the safety of... » read this article

Wake up and smell the roses, Wake up and smell the Earth! Wake up and smell the atmosphere -- Survival here, what's it worth? China's on a scentless runaway train of concrete, more roads for more cars raising the heat. Fukushima still tottering on a brink of destruction; before building... » read this article

In an interview to the journal Science, the Indian Prime Minister Dr. Man Mohan Singh, chose to focus on two hazardous technologies – genetically engineered seeds and crops in agriculture and nuclear power – as vital to the progress of science in India, and the “salvation for finding new development... » read this article

Environmentalists who support developing countries' fight against polluters should also back their struggle for control of oil Pablo Fajardo, the lead Ecuadorian lawyer in indigenous peoples' case over pollution against oil company Chevron. Photograph: Jose Jacome/EPA Environmentalists seem to realize that they have some stake in a fight such as... » read this article

Japan is almost completely free of nuclear power now, after the shutdown on March 26, 2012 of the Number 6 reactor at the country’s Kashiwasaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant. No nuclear reactors are now operational on the Japanese mainland. When scheduled maintenance closes the Number 3 Tomari reactor on the island... » read this article

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The fact that the world is being restructured from decentralized diversity to collectivized hierarchy by an authoritarian regime cloaked in green trappings can hardly be disputed. The final push toward the next and perhaps final phase may be announced this June at the 2012 U.N. Conference on Sustainable Development in... » read this article

It's not enough that the biotech industry -- led by multinational corporations such as Monsanto, Dow, Syngenta, BAS, and Dupont -- is poisoning our food and our planet. It's also poisoning young minds. In a blatant attempt at brainwashing, the Council for Biotechnology Information (CBI) has widely circulated what it... » read this article

Last year marked an important event for people fighting against global warming and climate change. The US National Academy of Sciences (NAS) acknowledged the validity of theories related to the two phenomena, and put them on par with such theories as Earth's age, the Big Bang and evolution. These are... » read this article

Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO’s) are made by manipulation of extremely deadly viruses and bacteria that have been engineered to be immune to antibiotics. Monsanto spends millions of dollars each month to ‘sugar’ coat and hide the truth of what they are doing or what is really behind how GMO’s are... » read this article

France has asked the European regulators to suspend the authorization to plant Monsanto's genetically modified (GM) MON810 corn. France's ecology minister says the decision is based on studies showing GM crops "pose significant risks for the environment." Agence France-Presse reports: The request is "based on the latest scientific studies" which... » read this article

After anti-mining protests in Panama left three dead and brought the Pan-American highway to a standstill, the elected chief of the Ngäbe-Buglé people says the fight for justice must continue. As she stands among villagers in the highlands of western Panama, their chosen leader, Silvia Carrera, is an image of... » read this article