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).
Globalisation
Heiner Flassbeck, Friederike Spiecker: Globalisation à la carte?
It’s what people and politics in the industrialised countries want. But after the total globalisation once aspired to there’s a desire to be more selective. Read Here Photo: Benoit Prieur/Wikimedia Commons
Economics
Matt Stoller: Too Big to Sail: How a Legal Revolution Clogged Our Ports
We are now in a giant parking lot game that threatens the global economy. Thank deregulation and the Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 1998. Read here
Geopolitics
AP: Palestinian soccer renews call for sanctions against Israel at FIFA congress amid Hamas conflict
Calls for action against Israel in international soccer because of the conflict with Hamas will be stepped up by Palestinian officials at the annual FIFA congress next month. Read HERE
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