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.
… Todhunter | 21st April 2015 News GMOs Farming Politics Science Corporations Finance … have every right to speak on psychology, politics and democracy. However, let a …
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 But the highly visible system of British colonial dominance has been replaced by a new imperial hegemony: the invisible, systemic rule of transnational capital, enforced by global institutions like the World Bank, while US-based global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.
On Independence Day, India's new rulers are the World Bank, IMF, WTO and Monsanto Colin Todhunter | 15th August 2016 News India Farming Seeds GMOs Corporations Finance yoke-india-cut.jpg India …
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.
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The corporate war on traditional farming is nowhere fiercer than in India, writes Colin Todhunter. After decades of the 'Green Revolution' that have impoverished the nation's soils, water, biodiversity and cultivators alike, agribusiness is poised for its final strike. But now the small scale farmers who produce most of the country's food are rediscovering ancient agroecological alternatives.
Militarism and Monsanto or Gandhi and Bhaskar Save? The agroecology alternative Colin Todhunter | 9th May 2016 News India Corporations Farming Water The Land Seeds Agroecology Finance …