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).
EU politics
Miguel Guerra: Catalonia – Empire strikes back
Guerra describes the roots of Catalan discontent with Spain’s national government, especially with the corruption and austerity policy of the Partido Popular of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy. Published in Renegade Inc. Read here […]
EU politics
German Foreign Policy: The EU’s Game of Chicken
Brexit from a German leftist perspective. Read here
Economics
Bill Mitchell: The pandemic is demonstrating that we can resist neoliberalism
Pierre Bordieu considered the neoliberal era to be one of the significant retrenchments in our civilisation: … the failure of the state as the guardian of the public interest. Read here
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