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Locked Down and Locking in the New Global Order
By Colin Todhunter Source: CounterPunch On 12 March, British PM Boris Johnson informed the public that families would continue to “lose loved ones before their time” as the coronavirus outbreak worsens. He added: “We’ve all got to be clear, this … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Environment, Financial Crisis, Health, police state, Psy-ops, Recession, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged Agribusiness, Agrochemicals, Baskut Tuncak, Boris Johnson, coronavirus, Corporate Bailouts, Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi, Dystopia, economic crisis, Economics, environment, Fiona Godlee, Gates Foundation, Global Economy, Glyphosate, Hilal Elver, Housing Crisis, lockdown, Michel Chossudovsky, NHS, Norbert Haring, Pesticides, Peter Hitchens, Peter Koenig, pharmaceutical companies, police state, Poverty, Public Health, Robert J Burrowes, surveillance state, World Bank
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Our Vanishing World: Insects
By Robert J. Burrowes About 12,000 years ago, late stone age humans precipitated the neolithic (agricultural) revolution that marked the start of the steady rise to civilization. Coincidentally, this occurred at the same time as the beginning of what is … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, Corporate Crime, culture, elites, Environment, Oligarchy, Philosophy, Psychology, Science, society, Sociology
Tagged 5G, Agribusiness, arthropods, Biosphere, bird population, Caspar A. Hallmann, Climate Change, corporatocracy, culture, environment, Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, insect population, Insects, Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, psychology, Rachel Carson, Rainforests, society, Sociology, Worldwide decline of the entomofauna: A review of its drivers
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Offering Choice but Delivering Tyranny: The Corporate Capture of Agriculture
By Colin Todhunter Source: Off-Guardian Many lobbyists talk a lot about critics of genetic engineering technology denying choice to farmers. They say that farmers should have access to a range of tools and technologies to maximise choice and options. At … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, Empire, Environment, Health, imperialism, Inequality, Neoliberalism, NGOs, Oligarchy, Science, society, Sociology, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged Africa, Agribusiness, Agroecology, Bayer, Big Ag, Biotech, Cargill, Eric Holt-Giménez, Fertilizers, Genetic Engineering, Global Food System, GM Crops, GMOs, Green Revolution, IMF, India, Industrial Foods, Monsanto, Neoliberalism, organic agriculture, Steven Druker, tyranny, Ukraine, Vandana Shiva, World Bank
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From Dollar Hegemony to Global Warming
Globalization, Glyphosate and Doctrines of Consent By Colin Todhunter Source: Dissident Voice There has been an on-going tectonic shift in the West since the abandonment of the Bretton Woods agreement in 1971. This accelerated when the USSR ended and has … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, elites, Empire, Geopolitics, imperialism, Militarization, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war
Tagged Agribusiness, American Empire, anti-racism, arms industry, Bretton Woods, Denis Rancourt, Economics, empire, gender equity, geopolitics, Global Warming, Globalization, Glyphosate, imperialism, neoliberal globalisation, Neoliberalism, oil, Ontario Civil Liberties Association, opioids, US Dollar
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Humanity’s ‘Dirty Little Secret’: Starving, Enslaving, Raping, Torturing and Killing our Children
By Robert J. Burrowes In a recent article titled ‘Challenges for Resolving Complex Conflicts’, I pointed out four conflict configurations that are paid little attention by conflict theorists. In this article, I would like to discuss a fifth conflict configuration … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, conditioning, consciousness, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Economics, education, Environment, Health, media, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, war
Tagged Agribusiness, Child Sex Abuse, Childhood Development, Children, CIA, Corporate Crime, Depleted Uranium, Domestic Violence, Economics, Education, environment, Health, human trafficking, Indian Residential Schools, Indigenous Peoples, International Tribunal for Natural Justice, Organized Religion, pollution, psychology, schools, Sociology, US Military, Violence, war, Yemen
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Harvest of Greed – the Merger of Bayer and Monsanto
By Dr. Mercola Source: Waking Times The featured documentary, “Harvest of Greed,” investigates a number of the many issues brought about by the merger of Monsanto and Bayer AG. The merger was initially announced in May 2016, when Monsanto accepted … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, Environment, GMOs, Health, History, Law, news, Social Control, society, State Crime, Technology
Tagged Agribusiness, Bayer, Big Ag, Biotech, Cartel, CSA, DOJ, Economics, environment, EPA, FDA, GE Foods, Genocide, Glyphosate, GMO, I.G. Farben, Monopoly, Monsanto, neonicotinoid pesticides, Organic Consumers Association, Organic Food, Roundup, Seed Patents, The Hague
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Agrochemicals and Institutional Corruption: Pleading with the Slave Master Will Not Set You Free
By Colin Todhunter Source: CounterPunch Environmental campaigner Dr Rosemary Mason has just written to President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker, Vice President of the European Commission Frans Timmermans and Health Commissioner Vytenis Andruikaitis. As set out below, she asks … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, elites, Environment, GMOs, Health, imperialism, Neoliberalism, NGOs, Science, Social Control, society, State Crime
Tagged Agribusiness, Agrochemicals, Agroecology, Big Ag, Biocides, Biodiversity, Cancer, Die-Offs, environment, Gates Foundation, Glyphosate, GM Crops, GMO, Herbicides, Industrial Agriculture, Localisation, Monsanto, Neoliberalism, Neonicotinoids, Pesticides, Roundup, World Bank
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Sweat Shops, GMOs and Neoliberal Fundamentalism: The Agroecological Alternative to Global Capitalism
By Colin Todhunter Source: Global Research Much of the argument in favour of GM agriculture involves little more than misrepresentations and un scrupulous attacks on those who express concerns about the technology and its impacts. These attacks are in part designed to whip up … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, Empire, Environment, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, Health, Neoliberalism, Social Control, society, Technology
Tagged Agribusiness, Agroecology, Big Ag, Biotech, Corporate Globalization, Decentralization, Eric Holtz-Gimenez, Food First, Gates Foundation, geopolitics, GM Agriculture, GMO, Herbicides, Localism, Monsanto, Neoliberalism, NGOs, Organic Food, Pesticides, Poverty, Raj Patel, Sweat Shops, WTO
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