Andrea Germanos Posts

McDonald's philanthropic activities have largely been self-serving, allowing the fast-food giant to score massive PR points with limited giving and continued marketing to children, a damning new report reveals.

Amidst growing inequality in the U.S., CEO pay is at "astronomical" levels. The annual GMI survey released Tuesday looked at the pay of over 2,200 top executives in North America over the past two years and found that average CEO pay increased 8.47 per cent from 2011 to 2012.

The findings come from the first annual Global Slavery Index released by the Walk Free Foundation, a movement working to end modern slavery, which looked at freedom-depriving practices including slavery, forced labor, debt bondage, human trafficking and child marriage in 162 countries.

Protesters filled the streets of over 10 cities in Chile on Saturday to march against what has been dubbed 'Monsanto Law,' a measure critics say risks the country's food sovereignty while putting seeds in the hands of a few multi-national corporations.

Thousands of people hit the streets of Brazil's largest city of São Paulo on Wednesday following news of a public transportation price rigging cartel, adding fuel to a grassroots uprising that began in June.

A Swedish professor has nominated NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden for the Nobel Peace Prize for revealing the extent of the NSA's vast surveillance program "in a heroic effort at great personal cost."

A new study is shedding more light on the environmental costs of shale gas extraction. Concentrations of methane in drinking water near gas wells six times higher than levels farther away.

Climate change is worsening wildfires, lengthening the wildfire season and increasing their size, the head of the nation's forest service warned Congress on Tuesday. "The largest issue we now face is how to adapt our management to anticipate climate change impacts and to mitigate their potential effects," Tidwell told the committee.

Nearly a third of managed honey bee colonies were lost this past winter, the United States Department of Agriculture, the Bee Informed Partnership and the Apiary Inspectors of America (AIA) found, a 42 percent increase in loss over the previous winter.

Next to the extreme anti-abortion bill Kansas Governor Sam Brownback (R) signed into law on Friday were notes on which he wrote JESUS + Mary at the top and further down that it was a bill that would create "a culture of life."

Next to the extreme anti-abortion bill Kansas Governor Sam Brownback (R) signed into law on Friday were notes on which he wrote JESUS + Mary at the top and further down that it was a bill that would create "a culture of life."

Next to the extreme anti-abortion bill Kansas Governor Sam Brownback (R) signed into law on Friday were notes on which he wrote JESUS + Mary at the top and further down that it was a bill that would create "a culture of life."

The fertilizer plant in West, Texas that exploded on Wednesday night killing 14 people had failed to disclose to the Department of Homeland Security that it was storing 1,350 times the amount of ammonium nitrate that would bring oversight from that agency.

The fertilizer plant in West, Texas that exploded on Wednesday night killing 14 people had failed to disclose to the Department of Homeland Security that it was storing 1,350 times the amount of ammonium nitrate that would bring oversight from that agency.

As the effects of climate change continue to ripple throughout the planet, some groups are acknowledging that the warming planet means big money is to be made on a resource more precious than oil — water.

President Obama signed what has been dubbed the "Monsanto Protection Act" on Tuesday, legislation critics say amounts to "corporate welfare" for biotechnology corporations like Monsanto, and puts farmers and the environment in jeopardy.