Will the court ruling against Monsanto open floodgates to more lawsuits? RT’s Boom Bust takes a look

14 Aug, 2018 14:47

A California jury has ordered Monsanto to pay $289 million to a man who alleged the company’s glyphosate-based weed-killers, including Roundup, caused his cancer.

RT’s Boom Bust discusses possible future lawsuits against the GMO giant. In other news, Russia has sold off nearly all of its holdings of US debt recently. The show talks about what could be behind the drastic move.

Meanwhile, the European Union is targeting ‘citizenship for sale’ policies in the bloc. Is money laundering in Europe the key reason for that?

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