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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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Toxic Agriculture and the Gates Foundation
By Colin Todhunter Source: Dissident Voice The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation was launched in 2000 and has $46.8 billion in assets (December 2018). It is the largest charitable foundation in the world and distributes more aid for global health … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, Empire, Environment, GMOs, Health, imperialism, Neoliberalism, NGOs, Oligarchy, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Technology
Tagged AGRA, Agrochemicals, BASF, Bayer, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, Biopiracy, Cargill, CGIAR, Corporate Philanthropy, Corteva, Diversity Seek, DuPont, environment, FMC, Food Security, food sovereignty, Gates Foundation, Global Justice Now, Global South, Globalization, Glyphosate, GMOs, Health, Herbicides, imperialism, Monocrops, Neoliberalism, NGOs, Poverty, Syngenta, USAID, WHO
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How GMO Seeds and Monsanto/Bayer’s “RoundUp” are Driving US Policy in Venezuela
With Juan Guaidó’s parallel government attempting to take power with the backing of the U.S., it is telling that the top political donors of those in the U.S. most fervently pushing regime change in Venezuela have close ties to Monsanto … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Economics, elites, Empire, Environment, Geopolitics, GMOs, History, imperialism, Neocons, news, Oligarchy, Social Engineering, society
Tagged AEI, Agrochemicals, American Enterprise Institute, Bayer, Betsy DeVos, Big Ag, Big Oil, Biotech, Chavista United Socialist Party of Venezuela, Corporate Crime, Dow Chemical, Elliott Abrams, Fred Kagan, geopolitics, Glyphosate, GMOs, Hugo Chavez, imperialism, John Bolton, José Cardenas, Juan Guaidó, Marco Rubio, Martin Rodil, Mike Pence, Mike Pompeo, Monsanto, Neocons, Nicolas Maduro, Paul Singer, Paul Wolfowitz, Roger Noriega, Roundtable of Democratic Unity, Roundup, Trump Administration, venezuela
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The Stomach-Churning Violence of the Agrochemical Oligopoly
By Colin Todhunter Source: OffGuardian As humans, we have evolved with the natural environment over millennia. We have learned what to eat and what not to eat, what to grow and how to grow it and our diets have developed accordingly. … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, elites, Environment, Geopolitics, Health, Neoliberalism, Science, Social Control, society, State Crime, Technology
Tagged Agrochemicals, Bayer, Big Ag, Biocides, Biotech, Corporate Globalization, environment, Food Security, Food System, geopolitics, Glyphosate, Health, Human Rights, Microbiome, Monocrops, Monsanto, Neoliberalism
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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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The Stomach-churning Violence of Monsanto, Bayer and the Agrochemical Oligopoly
By Colin Todhunter Source: RINF As humans, we have evolved with the natural environment over millennia. We have learned what to eat and what not to eat, what to grow and how to grow it and our diets have developed … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, Environment, Health, Neoliberalism, Science, society, Technology
Tagged Agrochemicals, Big Agra, Biocides, Biotech, Corporate Globalization, Ecology, environment, Food System, Herbicides, Industrial Agriculture, Microbiome, Monocrops, Monsanto, Neoliberalism, Pesticides, Public Health
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Bayer and Monsanto: A Marriage Made in Hell
By Steven MacMillan Source: New Eastern Outlook In a world infected with a plethora of immoral multinational corporations, it is hard to think of two corporations who have more nefarious histories than Bayer AG and Monsanto. Considering this, it is … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Environment, GMOs, Health, History, Science, Social Control, society, State Crime, war
Tagged Agent Orange, Agribusiness, Agrochemicals, Bayer, Biotech, Cancer, Chemical Warfare, Glyphosate, GMO, I.G. Farben, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Monsanto, Nazis, Pharmaceuticals, Roundup, World Health Organization
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68 Monsanto-Owned Companies To Boycott
(Editor’s Note: Tomorrow marks the 4th annual international March Against Monsanto. Whether or not you participate, you can take action in solidarity all year round by refusing to buy products from the companies listed below.) Monsanto Company Inc. is a … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, Environment, GMOs, Health, Science, society, State Crime, Technology
Tagged activism, Agent Orange, Agrochemicals, biotechnology, boycott, DDT, ecosystems, GE Foods, Genetic Modification, Glyphosate, GMO, Industrial Food, March Against Monsanto, Monsanto, Organic Food, PCBs, Pesticides, Pocessed Food, Public Health, Roundup
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