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GPEnewsdocs: Gilles Billen – Nitrogen, Agrochemical Corporations and International Trade: A Perilous Mix

April 25, 2024 Mathew D. Rose 2

Gilles Billen shows that industrial agriculture, propelled by international trade and specialization, has disturbed the nitrogen cycle. This has provoked the crossing of planetary boundaries and endangered the possibility of feeding the world. Alternatives do […]

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Food Production

Alex Park – Revealed: How Development Banks Underwrote Fast Food’s Global Takeover

April 23, 2024 David Shirreff 0

From South Africa to Ukraine, five industrial chicken companies that supply KFC have benefited from financing from the World Bank Group and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Alex Park is a journalist and researcher based in California Cross-posted […]

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Saeed Bagheri: The Silent Victim of Israel’s War on Gaza

April 9, 2024 David Shirreff 0

More than 2,000 agricultural sites, including farms and greenhouses, have been destroyed in Gaza since October. Read HERE Photo: RafahKid Kid/Creative Commons

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Angela Hilmi, Emile Frison – Farmer Protests: The Wrong U-Turn

March 25, 2024 Ben Wray 0

Farmers and the environment do not have divergent interests, quite the opposite. What European farmers don’t have any interest in is EU agricultural policies which impoverish them. Angela Hilmi is a panel expert with IPES-Food […]

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Marco D’Eramo: L’Europe profonde

March 18, 2024 Ben Wray 0

Analysis of Europe’s Farmer revolt. In New Left Review’s ‘Sidecar’. Read the article HERE.

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Environment

Morgan Ody, Vincent Delobel: Farmers’ protests in Europe and the deadend of neoliberalism

February 29, 2024 Mathew D. Rose 0

Scrapping environmental protections will not solve the agricultural crisis in Europe Morgan Ody is a vegetable farmer from Brittany, France and General Coordinator of La Via Campesina Vincent Delobel is a Walloon farmer, is a […]

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Yanis Varoufakis: The EU cartel was designed to crush farmers – Rural workers didn’t stand a chance

February 23, 2024 Mathew D. Rose 0

Manos, a sixth-generation farmer from Thessaly, put it to me bluntly when I asked him to explain why he was prepared to drive his tractor 400km to Athens to camp outside Parliament: “If I don’t, […]

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Corruption

Natasha Foote – Parliament greenlights plans to loosen EU rules on new GMOs – but with key conditions

February 16, 2024 Mathew D. Rose 0

The European Parliament has given its blessing to the EU’s plan to loosen rules on new genetic technologies, but added key conditions on labelling requirements and a ban on patents – the latter of which […]

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EU politics

Tomaso Ferrando – Address the root causes of European farmers’ anger

February 12, 2024 Ben Wray 0

The demands of those on the farmers’ protests are complex, but they all agree that a food system that treats food like any other commodity is a root cause of the problem. Tomaso Ferrando is […]

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Climate Crisis

Clara Bourgin – Why green activists joined farmers protests for fairer EU farming policies

February 7, 2024 Ben Wray 0

Farmers don’t need back-sliding on climate goals, they need policies which rein in corporate power. Clara Bourgin is the food, agriculture, and nature campaigner at Friends of the Earth Europe. Cross-posted from Common Dreams (first […]

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After Nations – The Making and Unmaking of a World Order by Rana Dasgupta

December 28, 2025 0

Reviewed by Branko Milanovic´ This new splendid and beautifully-written book by Rana Dasgupta has as its title After Nations: The Making and Unmaking of a World Order. The idea, briefly sketched in the introduction and […]

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Socialist Economics in Yugoslavia – A Critical History by Marko Grdešić and Mislav Žitko

December 3, 2025 0

Book Review by Branko Milanovic´ When on 28 June of 1948 Joseph Stalin wrote a latter on behalf of the Cominform to ask Yugoslavia’s communists to get rid of the “Titoist clique” and to return […]

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