Author: Natasha Chart

Patent Office smacks Monsanto down: The Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT) announced today that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has rejected four key Monsanto patents related to genetically modified crops that...

“Were moving from an era of cheap, abundant energy, to an era of scarce, hard to get, expensive energy.” – From A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash. There isn’t any alternative source of energy developed up...

Rep. David Dreier (R-CA) was just a bit ago lamenting “an end to bipartisanship” during the Farm Bill debate on the House floor, in reference to the terrible tax loophole shutdown on corporations headquartered in...

Both of the following statements can’t be true. Here’s the first one, the new neocon line on Iran. Emphasis mine: … Speaking in London this week, Frederick Kagan, a West Point military historian and noted US...

Kind, Blumenauer hope netroots deliver support for new farm bill Ahem. Let me first say, as unlikely as you may be to believe me by the time you finish reading this, that I like Rep. Ron Kind (D-WI) and Rep. Earl Blumenauer...