Oregon wheat farmers are among those fighting to ban GMOs in the Beaver State. (Flickr/ Edmund Garman) Now that the US Supreme Court has undermined historic controls on monopoly politics, corporate cash flows into election campaigns at an unprecedented rate. But it does not always win. Just ask the farmers of Oregon’s Jackson County. They took on some of the largest chemical, biotechnology and agribusiness corporations in the world—Dow, DuPont, Monsanto, Syngenta, among others—in an election campaign where 95 percent of the money spent against them came from outside the county. But when the ballots were counted Tuesday night, […]

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