[:en]Failure to act on climate change means an even bigger refugee crisis[:]

[:en][by Craig Bennett on theguardian.com] Global warming does not cause the conflicts that have caused mass movement of people, but it would be wrong to say it does not contribute.   As I looked in on my own children sleeping safely last Thursday night before I went to bed, I did so with added poignancy as I reflected that this was something Abdullah Kurdi was not able to do. I’m sure millions of parents of young children right...

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[:en]Colombia’s first steps of resistance against Monsanto’s chemical war[:]
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[:en]Colombia’s first steps of resistance against Monsanto’s chemical war[:]

[:en][by W.T. Whitney Jr on theecologist.org] The mass spraying of glyphosate in Colombia, both on farmland and in the ‘war on drugs’, is a direct an attack on small scale farmers, rural communities and FARC rebels, writes W.T. Whitney Jr. But since the chemical was declared a ‘probable carcinogen’ Colombia has restricted aerial applications. The first step in a wider backlash against the toxic herbicide?...

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[:en]Over-grazing and desertification in the Syrian steppe, the root causes of war[:]
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[:en]Over-grazing and desertification in the Syrian steppe, the root causes of war[:]

[:en][by Gianluca Serra on theecologist.org] Civil war in Syria is the result of the desertification of the ecologically fragile Syrian steppe, writes Gianluca Serra – a process that began in 1958 when the former Bedouin commons were opened up to unrestricted grazing. That led to a wider ecological, hydrological and agricultural collapse, and then to a ‘rural intifada’ of farmers and nomads no longer able to support...

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[:en]Sblocca Italia: Extractivism made in Italy[:]
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[:en]Sblocca Italia: Extractivism made in Italy[:]

[:en][by Salvatore De Rosa on entitleblog.org] The Unlock Italy Law, recently passed in the Italian parliament, is a festival of deregulation and legalised plunder. From fossil fuel extraction to construction permits, the country is put on sale to restart growth. But from the targeted territories, social movements are waging resistance. And they bring another idea of prosperity. Italy’s current Prime Minister, Matteo Renzi, has been...

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[:en]Here’s how much corporations paid US senators to fast-track the TPP bill[:]

[:en][by C Robert Gibson and Taylor Channing on theguardian.com] Critics of the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership are unlikely to be silenced by an analysis of the flood of money it took to push the pact over its latest hurdle A decade in the making, the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is reaching its climax and as Congress hotly debates the biggest trade deal in a generation, its backers have turned on the cash...

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[:en]UN experts voice concern over adverse impact of free trade and investment agreements on human rights[:]
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[:en]UN experts voice concern over adverse impact of free trade and investment agreements on human rights[:]

[:en][on ohchr.org] A number of free trade and investment agreements, such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), are currently being negotiated. A group of UN experts* have issued the following statement to express concern about the secret nature of drawing up and negotiating many of these agreements and the potential adverse impact of these agreements on human rights:...

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