• Pesticide manufacturers spend millions on PR response to declining bee populations

• Seeds of doubt: USDA ignores popular critiques of new pesticide-resistant genetically modifi ed crops

• Pentagon and NATO encircle Russia and China

• Global forced displacement tops 50 million

• Big sugar borrowing tactics from big tobacco

• U.S. military sexual assault of Colombian children

• Media “whitewash” Senate’s CIA torture report

• ICREACH: The NSA’s secret search engine

• “Most comprehensive” assessment yet warns against geoengineering risks

• FBI seeks backdoors in new communications technology

• The New Amazon of the North: Canadian deforestation

• Global killing of environmentalists rises drastically

• Unprocessed rape kits

• NSA’s AURORAGOLD program hacks cellphones around world

• Greenland’s meltwater contributes to rising sea levels