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Bill Gates promised Africa a farm productivity revolution. The data show sluggish yield growth and rising hunger.

When philanthropists get it wrong, where is the accountability?

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Twenty years ago, the Gates and Rockefeller foundations launched the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), promising agricultural transformation from improved seeds, synthetic fertilizers, mechanization, and commercial markets.

Tracking the Trump administration’s favors to the pesticide industry

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Over the past 18 months, the Trump administration has delivered a string of victories to the pesticide industry that could reshape pesticide use and public health protections for years to come. 

Newly released U.S. intelligence memo reveals plans for independent COVID origins study

New documents, obtained via a FOIA lawsuit, include an NIC memo updating where U.S. spy agencies stand in the debate over whether the pandemic evolved naturally or from a lab incident

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Newly released intelligence records show that as recently as January 2025, the U.S. intelligence community planned to create an independent panel of outside experts to study how the COVID-19 pandemic began.

Newly declassified 2020 intelligence assessment found Wuhan lab’s conditions were ripe for potential coronavirus release

The previously undisclosed assessment from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory was among nearly 400 pages of COVID-19 origins records released by ODNI, including emails showing analysts grappling with differing pandemic origin theories. 

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A newly declassified Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory assessment from May 2020 concluded that all of the conditions necessary for an accidental release of a laboratory-modified coronavirus were present at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China before the COVID-19 pandemic erupted. 

Big Tobacco promotes e-cigarettes, undermines health protections through U.S. business groups worldwide 

Tobacco companies use global American Chambers of Commerce chapters to block taxes, sell new nicotine products, and burnish their public image, researchers say

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Philip Morris tobacco company was the 'Gold Partner' at a March 2026 AmCham event in Poland.

Tobacco companies remain embedded in influential U.S. business groups worldwide, giving the industry a discreet and powerful channel to weaken regulation and undermine public health, a new study finds.