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Dispossession and Imperialism Repackaged as ‘Feeding the World’
Colin Todhunter The world is fast losing farms and farmers through the concentration of land into the hands of...
Crisis, What Crisis? Hypocrisy and Public Health in the UK
Rosemary Mason & Colin Todhunter On 12 March 2020, British PM Boris Johnson, referring to COVID-19, informed the public:...
“Own Nothing and Be Happy”: The Great Reset’s Vision of the Future
Colin Todhunter The World Economic Forum’s (WEF) annual meeting at the end of January in Davos, Switzerland, brings together...
Class Consciousness in the Age of COVID
Prior to the appearance of COVID-related restrictions and lockdowns, neoliberal capitalism had turned to various mechanisms in the face...
GM Cotton in India is a template for ‘monumental irreversible catastrophe’
Cotton is the only genetically modified (GM) crop that has been officially approved in India and has been cultivated...
Neoliberal Death Knell for Indian Agriculture
Colin Todhunter In a 2017 article, I asked what might a future India look like and concluded that, if...
From Cotton to Brinjal: Fraudulent GMO Project in India Sustained by Deception
Colin Todhunter Insecticidal Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis) cotton is the first and only GM (genetically modified) crop that has been...
GM Crops: Experts Debunk Claims of Success
Colin Todhunter On 6 July 2020, an article extolling the benefits of genetically modified (GM) crops appeared on the...
Post-Brexit Agrochemical Apocalypse for the UK?
The British government, regulators and global agrochemical corporations are colluding with each other and are thus engaging in criminal...
WATCH: The Gates Foundation and the Subversion of Public Health Policy in India
Colin Todhunter Some might ask why India is in complete lockstep with global lockdown despite the very low COVID19-related...
Capitalism and the Throttling of Democracy in India
Colin Todhunter The deregulation of international capital flows (financial liberalisation) has effectively turned the planet into a free-for-all bonanza...
From Toxic Food to Agrarian Disaster: Dirty Deals Done Dirt Cheap
Although millions of people were suffering, the hope was that the Covid-19 crisis, there was a belief that people...
Lockdown Catastrophe: The Need for Resilient Food Systems
We are already seeing food shortages in the making. In India, for instance, supply chains have been disrupted, farm...
Authoritarianism in the Age of Pseudoscience
Colin Todhunter Following the court decision in the US to award in favour of Dewayne Johnson (exposure to Monsanto’s...
The Gates Foundation and the War on Cash
Colin Todhunter Back in November 2016, the Indian government decided to remove all 500- and 1000-rupee notes from circulation...
Toxic Agriculture and the Gates Foundation
Colin Todhunter The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation was launched in 2000 and has $46.8 billion in assets (December...
Lockdown: Locking in the New Global Order
Colin Todhunter On 12 March, British PM Boris Johnson informed the public that families would continue to “lose loved...
Dependency & Distress: The Story of Bt Cotton in India
Colin Todhunter In the early 2000s, genetically modified (GM) Bt insecticidal cotton was being heavily promoted in India on...
Three New Reads – February
Philip Roddis Reshaping global food production in the image of corporate imperialism, a brief and bloody history of capitalism...
Apocalypse Now! Insects, Pesticides and a Public Health Crisis
Colin Todhunter In 2017, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Hilal Elver, and UN Special Rapporteur on...
