India’s Farmers Reject GMOs – Global Public Don’t Want GM Food
Colin Todhunter Many scientists lobbying for the deregulation of agricultural biotechnology ‘new genomic techniques’ (NGTs) in the European Union have either direct or indirect interests in commercialising and marketing...
Citizens and Experts Call for a Halt to COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout in India
Colin Todhunter The mass rollout of COVID-19 vaccines should be halted immediately. These experimental vaccines pose serious dangers. That is the message contained in a statement from concerned citizens...
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 Walmart’s acquisition of Flipkart. It argued that it undermines India’s...
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 for the world’s richest capitalists. Under the post-World-War Two Bretton...
All Three Parties Are So Racist That Their Conferences Ought To Be Cancelled
David Lindsay You do not have to like Jack Letts to be extremely concerned when politicians start revoking people’s citizenship. If you would merely qualify for another nationality, whether...
Who cares how war criminals vote?
And so ends the Labour career of Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair's PR man, one of the key architects of the "dodgy dossier", a man complicit in every death that...
As the 2019 Indian General Election Takes Place, Are the Nation’s Farmers Being Dealt a Knock-Out Blow?
Colin Todhunter In 1830, British colonial administrator Lord Metcalfe said India’s villages were little republics that had nearly everything they could want for within themselves. India’s ability to endure...
Indian Manifesto Demands Indefinite Moratorium on GMO
A new ‘Political Manifesto’ has demanded an indefinite moratorium on the environmental release of GMOs in India pending independent and rigorous biosafety risk assessment and regulation.
