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• Database of Scientists with ties to food and drug industry
• The revolving door between Monsanto and the Executive Branch
• Recent mergers in the food industry: who owns the natural foods companies?
• Fact Sheet on Wal-Mart: The Death Star of American Commerce

Links

• PR Watch
  website features 'Spin of the Day'; news about the masters of manipulation
• Corporate Watch
  about corporate power. Excellent site, with headlines, action alerts and more.
• Green Change is a community of people with Green values: Justice, democracy, sustainability and non-violence, working together to share Green art, politics and culture.
• Program on Corporations, Law & Democracy POCLAD
  Instigating democratic conversations and actions that contest the authority of corporations to govern.
• Multinational Monitor
  a monthly that tracks corporate activity, especially in the Third World, focusing on the export of hazardous substances, worker health and safety, labor union issues and the environment. Back issues available.
• Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch Large site with information on multinational agreements like FTAA and MAI, action alerts, action packs.
• International Forum on Globalization educational books and articles
• GreenPeople
  stop the corporate takeover,
  start our buycott
• Information on Corporate Welfare. Many links.
• The Nation Magazine 
  reports on stories most of the media won't touch. Political focus.
• Vegan Outreach
  promotes the lifestyle of veganism to contribute as little as possible to animal exploitation.
• Killer Coke
  Learn about the unscrupulous business practices of Coca-Cola
• Center for Science in the Public Interest
  Anti-Food Slander Site
• Mad Cowboy 
  Howard Lyman and the Oprah "Veggie Libel" Trial. UPDATE: In August 2002, Lyman and Oprah won - they finally got the case dismissed - after 5 years and millions of dollars in legal fees.
• www.minimalmonth.org
  Buy local and buy little month.

Books, Listservs, Newsletters

• Trespass Against Us
  A book about Dow Chemical's hundred years of lies and poisonings.
• Weapons of Mass Deception Rave Reviews for John Stauber & Sheldon Rampton's Book
• Trust Us - We're the Experts
  by Stauber & Rampton. Exposes Corporate Public Relations' Use of "Junk Science"
• Corporate Predators
  "How are corporations tightening their grip on the global political economy? How does this affect you?" by Robert Mokhiber and Russell Weissman
• Whose Trade Organization? Corporate Globalization and the Erosion of Democracy
  Preface by Ralph Nader. "The five-year track record of the WTO in everyday language"
• The Agribusiness Examiner
  E-newsletter from a public interest perspective, by farm journalist Al Krebs, monitoring corporate agribusiness. Focus on farm policy.
• Pesticide Action Network Updates Service
  PANUPS is a free international news service covering the latest pesticide research, regulatory and other policy decisions, and pesticide- and agriculture-related activism. Some issues of PANUPS are Resource Pointers, which briefly describe new books, reports and other resources related to pesticides, sustainable agriculture and genetic engineering.
• Rachel's Environment and Health Weekly
  Searchable Newsletter
• Organic Consumers Association newsletters
• Hope's Edge
  In Hope's Edge, we travel to five continents searching for answers to the most challenging question of our time: Why are we as societies creating the very inequalities and environmental devastation that as individuals we abhor? And we look for pathways we each can walk to create more meaningful lives--contributing to a more just world and one in harmony with nature. More info/order

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