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Oil, Agriculture and Imperialism: Averting the Fast-Track to Armageddon?
US global hegemony depends on Washington maintaining the dollar’s leading role. Engaging in petrodollar recycling and treasury-bond ‘super-imperialism’ are...
Capitalist Agriculture: Putting Soil on a Diet of Snake Oil and Doughnuts
Colin Todhunter In their rush to readily promote neoliberal dogma and corporate-inspired PR, many government officials, scientists and journalists...
The Stomach-Churning Violence of the Agrochemical Oligopoly
Colin Todhunter As humans, we have evolved with the natural environment over millennia. We have learned what to eat...
GM Cotton – Reckless Gamble
Colin Todhunter The dubious performance (failure) of genetically engineered Bt cotton, officially India’s only GM crop, should serve as...
The GMO Issue Reaches Boiling Point in India
Interview with Aruna Rodrigues In a recent article published on the India-based News18 site (CNN), prominent US biologist Nina...
GM Crops & the Agrarian Crisis
Father of Green Revolution in India Rejects GM Crops as Farmers Demand Justice in Delhi Colin Todhunter Genetically modified...
GMO Propaganda and Neoliberalism vs Localisation and Agroecology
Colin Todhunter What people communicate is a matter of choice. But what can be more revealing are the issues...
India’s Farmers Plan Mass March to the Nation’s Parliament as Agrarian Crisis Reaches “Civilization Proportions”
Colin Todhunter With over 800 million people, rural India is arguably the most interesting and complex place on the...
From GM Potatoes to Glyphosate: Regulatory Delinquency & a Toxic Post-Brexit Trade Deal
Colin Todhunter Food and environment campaigner Dr Rosemary Mason has just produced the report ‘Shockingly high levels of weedkiller...
Food, Justice, Violence and Capitalism
Colin Todhunter In 2015, India’s internal intelligence agency wrote a report that depicted various campaigners and groups as working...
Recolonising India: Gross Maladministration and the Illegal Entry of GMOs
Colin Todhunter Despite five high-level reports (listed here) in India advising against the adoption of genetically modified (GM) crops, the...
India: The State of Independence
Colin Todhunter India celebrates its independence from Britain on 15 August. However, the system of British colonial dominance has...
India Mortgaged? Forced-Fed Illness and the Neoliberal Food Regime
Colin Todhunter Like many countries, India’s food system was essentially clean just a generation or two ago but is...
Haughty Imperialism: Genetically Modifying the Way to Food Security?
Colin Todhunter Those familiar with the debate around genetically modified organisms (GMOs) may be forgiven for thinking that science alone...
Pro-GMO Activism and Smears Masquerade as Journalism
by Colin Todhunter & Aruna Rodrigues at Asia Pacific News The Print is a Delhi-based, online news magazine that...
European Commission serving a corporate agenda
by Colin Todhunter* A report released last year by the watchdog body Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) revealed huge conflicts of interests...
Britain’s Scramble For Africa – The New Colonialism
by Colin Todhunter, via True Republica Africa is facing a new and devastating colonial invasion driven by a determination...
