The world is in the grip of a structural war against people, land, economies and ecosystems, writes Colin Todhunter. It is being waged by a quartet of organised criminal interests bent on monopolizing energy, money, food and violence across the globe. But a deep-rooted resistance against their 'neoliberal' doctrine of death and destruction is fighting back.
Arms, agribusiness, finance and fossil fuels: the four horsemen of the neoliberal Apocalypse Colin Todhunter | 15th February 2016 News Food Farming Finance USA Energy 4-horsemen-cut.jpg The world is …
After two decades of neoliberalism, India's magnates and corporations are profiting as never before, writes Colin Todhunter. But the entire economic edifice is built on the dispossession of the poor, locked into debt servitude, and ever rising income inequality. Prime Minister Modi's latest move, 'demonetization', is yet another example of the state stealing from the poor to give to the obscenely rich.
… crisis and parts of the debt-inflated economy were in danger of imploding. In this … performance and jobs and pumping up the economy with credit, while at the same time …
India celebrates its Independence Day today, writes Colin Todhunter. But the highly visible system of British colonial dominance has been replaced by a new imperial hegemony: the invisible, systemic rule of transnational capital, enforced by global institutions like the World Bank, while US-based global agribusiness corporations have stepped into the boots of the former East India Company.
… a creditor demands changes are made to an economy in this way - changes that will … agriculture (not to mention a devastated economy with former workers driven into the … to agriculture is portrayed as a drain on the economy and is reduced and farmers suffer yet …
To understand how technology is used in the real world we must appreciate who owns and controls it, writes Colin Todhunter: whose interests it serves, and how it works in an economic system driven by profit, geopolitics and the compulsion to capture and control markets - while the monopolists proclaim a noble ideology of 'free choice' and 'democracy'.
Feeding the bank balance: GMOs, development and the politics of happiness Colin Todhunter | 14th March 2016 Comment Food Farming Politics Corporations USA kalimantan-cut.jpg To understand how …
Bayer's $66 billion takeover of Monsanto represents another big click on the ratchet of corporate power over farming and food, writes Colin Todhunter. With the 'big six' of global agribusiness now set to turn into the 'even bigger three', farmers and consumers are facing more GMOs and pesticides, less choice, and deeper price gouging. Agroecology has never looked more attractive.
Monsanto and Bayer: food and agriculture just took a turn for the worse Colin Todhunter | 16th September 2016 News Corporations GMOs Farming Pesticides Food Agroecology fertile-cut.jpg Bayer's $66 …
India's food system, essentially clean just a generation ago, has been comprehensively contaminated with sugar, bad fats, synthetic additives, GMOs and pesticides under the country's neoliberal 'great leap forwards', writes Colin Todhunter. The result? a surge in obesity, diabetes and cancer incidence, but no let-up in the under-nutrition of those too poor to join in the over-consumption.
India: obesity, malnutrition and the globalisation of bad food Colin Todhunter | 4th April 2016 Comment Food Farming India Trade GMOs Health Pesticides Toxics mcdonalds-india-cut.jpg India's food …
Corporate lobbyists and their tame politicians love to present GMOs as being humanitarian in purpose, writes Colin Todhunter - as if they exist only to feed the starving millions. But if that's the case, why are they silent on genocidal land grabs, agrochemical poisonings and the destruction of efficient, productive smallholder farming?
The devil in disguise: unmasking the 'humanitarian' GMO narrative Colin Todhunter | 18th May 2015 Comment GMOs Farming Corporations Politics India Mexico Argentina Trade oromo-protest-cut.jpg Where …
As protestors gather to oppose yet another illegal war in the Middle East, Colin Todhunter asks why David Cameron is so keen to bomb. Of course there's access to oil and routes for gas pipelines, but beyond that, it's about re-entrenching militarism into our national culture, and re-asserting the dominance of capital over people.
… helping to break the energy-dependent Russian economy. Russian ally Assad refused to sign …
The GMO industry has legitimised itself via a vast network of lobbyists and the assiduous capture of the politicians, regulators and scientists that should be holding it to account, writes Colin Todhunter. But as the failure of the GM revolution and its disastrous impacts become ever more evident, the industry's legitimacy is fast eroding away.
… in which the commanding heights of the economy are an interlocking directorate of …
India's farmers are the targets of structural violence aimed at uprooting indigenous agriculture and replacing it with an intensive corporate model based on GMOs and agrochemicals, writes Colin Todhunter. But as Monsanto's GM cotton succumbs to insect infestations despite repeated pesticide applications, agroecological farming is an increasingly attractive option for cultivators.
Monsanto's pride, Monsanto's fall: playing God with the Indian farmer Colin Todhunter | 19th February 2016 News Farming India GMOs Toxics Corporations Ecology cotton-farmers-india-cut.jpg India's …
GMO enthusiasts insist that organic, agroecological farming could never feed the world, writes Colin Todhunter. But it has been feeding us all for millennia - and it's the only way to continue while enriching the soils and biodiversity on which all farming depends. As Mahatma Gandhi once observed, industrial agriculture is but a nine-day wonder. And its time will soon be up.
Organic agriculture, agroecology and the parallel reality of the GMO evangelist Colin Todhunter | 21st March 2016 News Food Farming Ecology Organic organic-carrots-cut.jpg GMO enthusiasts insist that …
Agroecology is key to retaking control over food, farming and land from the 'monstrous machine' of agribusiness, biotech, big finance and 'free trade', writes Colin Todhunter, as it represents a truly viable alternative to agriculture for corporate profit. But such are the powers ranged against the world's small farmers that it must be supported by a broad-based, global people's movement.
Resisting the corporate stranglehold on food and farming - is agroecology enough? Colin Todhunter | 4th March 2016 Comment Food Farming Corporations The Land India USA Mexico Trade Health Society …