Native Americans on an oil-rich North Dakota reservation have been cheated out of more than $1 billion by schemes to buy drilling rights for lowball prices, a flurry of recent…
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Thanks to the student protests at Vanderbilt University, Vanderbilt University has taken steps to withdraw its $26 million investment in EMVest, formerly Emergent Asset Management, an agricultural corporation with farms…
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As part of a growing trend toward investment in agricultural commodities globally, investment bankers are now recommending that their clients invest in agricultural land as a stable finite commodity with…
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Drawing on official Israeli military maps and population statistics, the leading Israeli human rights group, B’Tselem, compiled new findings that show that over 300,000 Jewish settlers now control more than…
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To justify enforcing a corporate land grab, the India needs an enemy – and it has chosen the Maoists.  The low, flat-topped hills of south Orissa have been home to the Dongria Kondh people…