BRICS to introduce multipolar carbon markets
Riley Waggaman
On November 22, the G20 will gather in BRICS-state South Africa to discuss the #1 crisis facing humankind: the nations of the world are struggling to meet their UN...
The Agrarian Imagination: The Iron Cage of Agri-Rationality and Dostoevsky ‘s Moral Underground
Colin Todhunter
“A great deal depends upon a right relationship with the soil; the right relationship with the soil is the basis for the right relationship with one another.” Wendell Berry,...
Beyond the Farm Laws: Corporate Cloud Poised to Reign Over India’s Fields
Colin Todhunter
Nearly four years after India’s historic year-long farmers’ protests forced the repeal of three pro-corporate farm laws, it is clear that the government’s underlying agenda remains intact. The repeal...
Beneath the Flyover, Beside the Temple
Colin Todhunter
The word ‘development’ is often invoked as a moral good. Corporations and international investors regard it as a massive business opportunity, and politicians sell it as a template for...
Gates Foundation: “Digital IDs are an effective tool against poverty”
Kit Knightly
It looks like we can add another to the growing mountain of problems that digital IDs are going to solve for all of us. We already know that digital...
The Sacred and the Sick: The Rhythm of the Lanes and the Repercussions of Progress
Colin Todhunter
A lot has been written on the global food system—its industrialisation, ecological consequences and the erosion of cultural, economic and food sovereignty. Despite this onslaught, however, traditional rhythms and...
Celebrating Independence: Comforting Myth in a Dispossessed Reality
Colin Todhunter
As India celebrates its 78th Independence Day on 15 August, the tricolour will flutter proudly across the nation. Speeches will echo the triumphs of freedom, resilience and progress. But...
On Independence Day, Foreign Agribusiness Will Be Told Get Out, “Quit India!”
Colin Todhunter
On 15 August, India will celebrate its Independence Day. There will be the usual celebratory flag-waving and flypasts in Delhi along with sound bites about ‘the world’s biggest democracy’. But what...
What did BRICS just declare?
Riley Waggaman
On July 6, BRICS member states signed the Joint Declaration of the 17th BRICS Summit, “Strengthening Global South Cooperation for More Inclusive and Sustainable Governance”, in Rio de Janeiro. Similar...
Game Up for Polo? Syngenta Faces Swiss Court Over Pesticide Poisoning in India
Colin Todhunter
This article highlights what happens when wealthy corporations export hazardous pesticides to Global South countries, where weaker regulatory protections allow them to prioritise shareholder profits over public safety. In...
Control, Crisis and Compliance: Endgame Logic of Late Capitalism
Colin Todhunter
It must be made clear from the start that, drawing on the work of sociologist Max Weber, capitalism is an ‘ideal type’ concept. An ideal type is a conceptual...
Grief, Guilt and Graffiti — Why the Legacy of “Killer Carbide” in Bhopal Must Not Fade from Public View
Colin Todhunter
This article reassembles existing evidence to challenge a dominant narrative of the Bhopal disaster as a closed historical tragedy, arguing instead that it remains an ongoing disaster. While activists...
Indian Farmers’ Protest Resurges Against Corporate Control: Where Is the Global Support This Time?
CST Reasearch
The 2020–2021 Indian farmers’ protests garnered significant international support due to the unprecedented scale and resilience of the movement against three controversial farm laws. The government’s harsh crackdown on...
Mutant Rice and Bill Gates’s Lab Rats: Grand Experiments in India’s Fields
Colin Todhunter
In late 2024, Bill Gates sparked outrage in India after describing the country as “a kind of laboratory to try things” during a podcast with Reid Hoffman. Gates emphasised...
Let’s talk about…India vs Pakistan
Early this morning, the Pakistani government claimed the Indian military had launched missiles at several sites in Pakistan and the Pakistan-administered Kashmir region. India confirmed this story, claiming it...
This Week in the New Normal #99
Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the...
Farm Laws Reborn: Tear Gas, Water Cannons and a Toxic Platter for India’s Farmers and Consumers
CST Research
India could see an authoritarian central government with subordinate state governments under the control of corporate interests and international finance capital. So says the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), a...
The Glaring Hypocrisy and Embedded Deceptions of the Global Food Giants
Colin Todhunter
Bryce Martinez (18) from Pennsylvania is mounting a legal challenge against major food companies, alleging that their ultra-processed foods (UPFs) led to his development of Type 2 diabetes and...
Revolutionising the Self
Colin Todhunter
Bindu Art School in Chengalpattu, a couple of hours by road from Chennai in South India, was set up in 2005 in the Bharatapuram leprosy colony. It was started...
The Great Multipolar Reset: Globalist Vampires in Bed With The BRICS
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One thing that is consistent about the blood-sucking globalist vampires—they have an irresistible urge to tell you what they are going to do. Their policy of hiding things in plain...
