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Big Pharma spends a small fortune every year buying politicians to make sure we can’t import prescription drugs from Canada, but they’re more than happy to sell us contaminated medications from countries with weak manufacturing controls and exploitable labor that ensure high profit margins.

Noam Chomsky: America Has Buil...

Jan 10, 2020 by GlobalPossibilities

It is nearly impossible to live in today’s world without having come across mention of the legendary Noam Chomsky.

The Case for Old-Fashioned Tar...

Nov 27, 2019 by GlobalPossibilities

WASHINGTON, DC – The “bicycle theory” used to be a metaphor for international trade policy. Just as standing still on a bicycle is not an option – one must keep moving forward or else fall over – so it was said that trade negotiators must engage in successive rounds of liberalization.

Air Pollution Is Linked to Mis...

Oct 14, 2019 by GlobalPossibilities

A new study published on Monday adds to growing evidence of the negative health effects of air pollution on pregnant women and their fetuses.

Is America headed for a war in...

May 25, 2019 by Casey Coates Danson

Is America headed for a war involving Iran? Actually, we’re already mired in one: the unconscionable war in Yemen.

Angry farmers tell CNN that Tr...

May 15, 2019 by GlobalPossibilities

Farmers in Iowa told CNN this week that President Donald Trump’s trade war with China is pushing them to the brink – and some said they regretted voting for him in 2016 given what his policies have done to their livelihoods.

How one activist used a little...

Apr 24, 2019 by GlobalPossibilities

Apple isn’t the only company that Ma has helped push toward reform. Since IPE was founded in 2006, his team has gotten more than 1,300 factories to address environmental messes such as discharging waste into rivers.

On South America’s large...

Apr 23, 2019 by GlobalPossibilities

In an arid, lunar-like landscape in the sunny highlands of northern Argentina, South America’s largest solar farm is rising, powered by funding and technology from China.

Toxic air will shorten childre...

Apr 3, 2019 by GlobalPossibilities

Global air pollution crisis is taking its greatest toll on children in south Asia

Could this warehouse of cockro...

Feb 5, 2019 by GlobalPossibilities

Somewhere in China, a billion cockroaches scuttle through a moat-surrounded factory.

China crushes US in new power ...

Jan 24, 2019 by GlobalPossibilities

We interrupt the mainstream media narrative about fake infrastructure (Trump’s border wall) with news about real infrastructure.

Fracked shale oil wells drying...

Jan 11, 2019 by GlobalPossibilities

“Other countries, namely China, are frantically investing in renewables. For us to crow about our oil wealth, and not focus on renewables, is for us to miss the opportunity to be leaders in the world as it’s going to be.”

China gets tough on US recycla...

Jan 10, 2019 by GlobalPossibilities

Beijing’s 2018 crackdown on recyclables was widely decried as a disaster for global recycling. Facing rising recycling costs, cities like Sanford, Maine, have found innovative ways to respond.

China demands developed countr...

Dec 14, 2018 by GlobalPossibilities

Key sticking point at UN negotiations is how countries should account for their greenhouse gas emissions

COP24: Nationalism and the cha...

Nov 29, 2018 by Casey Coates Danson

At a world gathering on climate change this weekend, nations will face a key political test: whether they can transcend the narrowness of nationalism in favor of cooperation. All eyes will be on the US and China.