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A People’s History of Struggle: Liberty or Lockdown
Colin Todhunter UK health minister Matt Hancock has warned the government’s timeline for unlocking coronavirus restrictions could be slowed...
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,...
Genetic Engineering, Agriculture and Brexit: Treachery in Our Midst
Colin Todhunter The UK government has launched its public consultation on the deregulation of gene editing in England. To...
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...
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...
