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Smashing the Heads of Farmers: A Global Struggle Against Tyranny
Colin Todhunter According to Reuters, more than 500,000 farmers attended a rally in the city of Muzaffarnagar in the...
A Message to the EU: Address the Real Public Health Crisis by Banning Glyphosate
Colin Todhunter & Rosemary Mason The herbicide glyphosate – the most widely used herbicide on the planet – is...
Science, Salvation and Heretics: From Monsanto to Pfizer it’s the same old playbook
Colin Todhunter Why are numerous ‘independent alternative’ media outlets and writers not questioning the COVID-19 vaccine rollout? If anything,...
Mobilising Against the Corporate Hijack of Agriculture and the UN Food Systems Summit
Colin todhunter The UN Food Systems Summit (UNFSS), including a ‘pre-summit’, will take place in September 2021 in New...
The Organic Human: An Endangered Species
Lucy Davies Ever since I offered my 2-year-old daughter a banana in a playgroup & she yelled at the...
WATCH: Eating less meat won’t save the planet. Here’s why.
This video from YouTuber What I’ve Learned, released in April this year, is the best argument against the common...
Toxic Corporations Are Destroying the Planet’s Soil
Colin Todhunter A newly published analysis in the journal Frontiers in Environmental Science argues that a toxic soup of...
WATCH: Ice Age Farming
In his newest episode of Solutions Watch, James Corbett talks to Christian Westbrook (aka the Ice Age Farmer) about...
Old Normal vs New: From 1980s Neoliberalism to the ‘Great Reset’
Colin Todhunter Sold under the pretence of a quest for optimising well-being and ‘happiness’, capitalism thrives on the exploitation...
Microsoft vs Indian Farmers: Agri-Stacking the System
Colin Todhunter In April, the Indian government signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Microsoft, allowing its local partner...
Campaigners: “Ban Glyphosate to protect public health!”
Colin Todhunter On 9 April 2021, retired physician and health and environmental campaigner Dr Rosemary Mason wrote to the...
Gates Unhinged: Dystopian Vision for the Future of Food
Colin Todhunter We are currently seeing an acceleration of the corporate consolidation of the entire global agrifood chain. The...
Four Words Gates and His Pals Despise: Democracy & Minimum Support Price
Colin Todhunter The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and an assortment of high-profile figures and policymakers are pushing for...
Walmart, Amazon and the Colonial Deindustrialisation of India
Colin Todhunter In June 2018, the Joint Action Committee against Foreign Retail and E-commerce (JACAFRE) issued a statement on...
Farmers’ Protest in India – Price of Failure Will Be immense
Colin Todhunter Globally, there is an ongoing trend of a handful of big companies determining what food is grown,...
Viral Inequality: From Jeff Bezos to the struggle of Indian Farmers
The world’s 10 richest billionaires have collectively seen their wealth increase by $540bn over this period. In September 2020,...
Farmers’ Protests Reflect Existential Crisis of Indian Agriculture
Colin Todhunter With over 800 million people, rural India is arguably the most interesting and complex place on the...
Indian Farmers on the Frontline Against Global Capitalism
Colin Todhunter In the above short video on the empirediaries.com YouTube channel, a protesting farmer camped near Delhi says...
Reimagining the World: Agroecology vs Post-COVID Plunder
Colin Todhunter Contingent on World Bank aid to be given to poorer countries in the wake of coronavirus lockdowns,...
Imperial Intent: Destroying India’s Farm Sector
Colin Todhunter Agriculture in India is at a crossroads. Indeed, given that over 60 per cent of the country’s...
