Like the movie “Back To The Future,” flawed U.S. trade and tax policy has caused the offshoring of much production, including seafood, transporting the U.S. back to the days of the “Robber Barons “ and “Buyer Beware” where the middle class shrinks and products are dangerous and fraudulent. This wasn’t an issue when we consumed…

by PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/02/26/one-nation-under-monsanto/ In the United States everything is polluted. Democracy is polluted with special interests and corrupt politicians. Accountability is polluted with executive branch exemptions from law and the Constitution and with special legal privileges for corporations, such as the Supreme Court given right to corporations to purchase American elections. The Constitution…

Kunstler.com / By James Howard Kunstler After Ruining America, the Era of Giant Chain Stores Is Over The coming implosion of big box retail implies tremendous opportunities for young people to make a livelihood in the imperative rebuilding of local economies. February 24, 2013 | Global currency wars (competitive devaluations) are about to destroy trade…

Some feedlots, meatpackers closing after US ranchers sold off cattle amid widespread drought (Orlin Wagner/ Associated Press ) – In this Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013 photograph, Randy Cree picks up a bale of hay while feeding cattle on his farm near Big Springs, Kan. Years of drought are reshaping the U.S. beef industry with feedlots…

God Made A Factory Farmer

R-CALF United Stockgrowers of America "Fighting for the U.S.Cattle Producer" For Immediate Release February 21, 2013 Cattle Groups Square Off with HSUS over Domestic Horse Slaughter Billings, Mont. – Yesterday R-CALF USA joined with other groups and individuals to counter the Humane Society of the United States’ (HSUS’) efforts to block the humane slaughter of…

GMO Agribusiness and the Destructive Nature of Global Capitalism By Colin Todhunter Global Research, February 19, 2013 Url of this article: http://www.globalresearch.ca/gmo-agribusiness-and-the-destructive-nature-of-global-capitalism/5323232 Capitalism is based on managing its inherent crises. It is also based on the need to maximise profit, beat down competitors, cut overheads and depress wages. In the 1960s and 70s, in the…

PBS did an extensive segment on the case last night. I did not understand fully the huge implications of this case that reach well beyond Mr. Bowman. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/law/jan-june13/scotus_02-19.html Jan

Monsanto, the Court and the Seeds of Dissent George Kimbrell, Debbie Barke, The Los Angeles Times Kimbrell and Barke write: "Yesterday, attorneys for the largest agrochemical corporation in the world, Monsanto, presented arguments before the Supreme Court asserting the company’s rights to the generations of seeds that naturally reproduce from its genetically modified strains." READ…