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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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Saker interview with Michael Hudson on Venezuela, February 7, 2019
By The Saker and Michael Hudson Source: The Saker Introduction: There is a great deal of controversy about the true shape of the Venezuelan economy and whether Hugo Chavez’ and Nicholas Maduro’s reform and policies were crucial for the people of … Continue reading
Posted in black ops, CIA, culture, Economics, Empire, Energy, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, Neoliberalism, news, State Crime
Tagged Big Oil, china, Citgo, Debt, Economics, empire, EU, geopolitics, Gold, Hugo Chavez, IMF, imperialism, Iran, Latin America, Michael Hudson, NATO, Neoliberalism, Nicolas Maduro, Russia, U.S. oil industry, US Foreign Policy, venezuela, World Bank
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Degrowth: closing the global wealth divide
Contradicting the dominant paradigm that economic growth equals development, degrowth theorists argue that serious cutbacks are crucial to protect life on our planet. By Riccardo Mastini Source: ROAR Today, some 4.3 billion people — more than 60 percent of the … Continue reading
Posted in Consumerism, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Energy, Environment, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, Inequality, Neoliberalism, NGOs, Oligarchy, Privatization, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged capital flight, Climate Change, Colonialism, Consumerism, Consumption, Corporate Globalization, Degrowth, developing countries, Development, economic inequality, Economics, global development, Global Footprint Network, Global North, Global South, Globalization, Growth, Human Population, IMF, Jason Hickel, Multinational Corporations, Natural Resources, NGOs, Poverty, Progress, Sustainability, The Divide, The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and Its Solutions, Trade Agreements, trade misinvoicing, World Bank
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Exposing the Giants: The Global Power Elite
By Robert J. Burrowes Developing the tradition charted by C. Wright Mills in his 1956 classic The Power Elite, in his latest book, Professor Peter Phillips starts by reviewing the transition from the nation state power elites described by authors … Continue reading
Posted in anti-war, Corporate Crime, corporate news, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, Inequality, media, Militarization, military spending, news, propaganda, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war, war on terror
Tagged Bank for International Settlements, Bilderberg Group, BlackRock, CFR, Corporate Globalization, corporate media, Economics, G20, G30, G7, geopolitics, Global Elites, Group of 30, IMF, imperialism, International Capital, International Monetary Conference, International Monetary Fund, J.P Morgan Chase, Management Firms, NATO, NGOs, Oligarchy, peter phillips, Plutocracy, the Council on Foreign Relations, The Power Elite, Trilateral Commission, US Foreign Policy, war, WEF, World Bank, World Economic Forum, World Trade Organization, WTO
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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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5 Reasons why donations to the poor may bring bad results!
By John Hawthorne Source: Business Connect Does donating to poor countries actually help? Keep in mind there is a big difference between disaster response and longer term, more effective and sustainable development. Much of the time outside assistance and donations … Continue reading
Former World Bank Staffer Explains How Neoliberalism Is Destroying The World
By Dylan Charles Source: Waking Times More destructive than bombs, money has become the weapon of choice for the global elite, for the hidden hand of finance can plunder and conquer entire nations, assimilate whole cultures, exploit resources and rape … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, conditioning, Consumerism, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, History, Neoliberalism, Philosophy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, Video, war
Tagged Consumerism, Corporate Globalization, Delphi Initiative, Economic Collapse, financial crisis, geopolitics, George Monbiot, Global Elite, IMF, International Monetary Fund, John Perkins, Neoliberalism, Neoliberals, Peter Koenig, U.S. Treasury, war, World Bank, WTO
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