Big global biotech corporations like Bayer and Corteva, which together already control 40% of the global seed market, are dangerously trying to reinforce their monopoly and threatening food security. A group of seed saving, environmental and consumer organisations, including Corporate Europe Observatory, reveals how these companies seek to increase their control over the future of food and farming by extensively patenting plants and developing a new generation of genetically modified organisms (GMOs).
Economics
DeStatis – Germany: Manufacturing in March 2023: new orders drop by 11% year on year
New orders in manufacturing: March 2023 (in real terms, provisional): -10.7% on the previous month (seasonally and calendar adjusted) -11.0% on the same month a year earlier (calendar adjusted) Read HERE
Corruption
Transparency International: MEPs miss opportunity to improve ethics regime in Parliament
At today’s plenary vote, Members of the European Parliament have failed to make necessary changes to the ethics system and put an end to the culture of impunity among MEPs that has been exposed by […]
Austerity
Jason Hickel – The Age of Imperialism is Not Over—But We Can End It
Capitalist accumulation has always depended on cheap labor and resources extracted from the Global South. To end this violence we need a post-capitalist transition—otherwise, as climate breakdown accelerates, the ceaseless search for profit will drive […]
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