Articles by Colin Todhunter
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India’s GM Mustard and the 30-Year Path to Food Tyranny
Colin Todhunter | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
27 Oct 2022 – A public interest litigation is currently before India’s Supreme Court which challenges the drive to commercialise the growing of genetically modified mustard in India. Yesterday, however, the country’s apex regulatory body – the Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee – sanctioned commercialisation of the crop.
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Gates Unhinged: Dystopian Vision for Agrifood Must Not Succeed
Colin Todhunter | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2021
18 Apr 2021 – We are currently seeing an acceleration of the corporate consolidation of the entire global agrifood chain. The high-tech/data conglomerates, including Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook and Google, have joined traditional agribusiness giants, such as Corteva, Bayer, Cargill and Syngenta, in a quest to impose a certain type of agriculture and food production on the world. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is also involved.
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Dystopian “Great Reset”: “Own Nothing and Be Happy”, Being Human in 2030
Colin Todhunter | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2020
Driven by the vision of its influential CEO Klaus Schwab, the World Economic Forum is the main driving force for the dystopian ‘great reset’, a tectonic shift that intends to change how we live, work and interact with each other. The Great Reset entails a transformation of society resulting in permanent restrictions on fundamental liberties and mass surveillance as entire sectors are sacrificed to boost monopoly and hegemony.
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The Neoliberal Capitalist Lockdown: Class Consciousness in the Age of COVID
Colin Todhunter | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2020
28 Oct 2020 – Although COVID is being blamed, the shutting down of the old economy was already happening as growth was below the minimum tolerable 3% level to maintain the viability of capitalism. “In order to reverse this serious setback [COVID] to development progress and poverty reduction, countries will need to prepare for a different economy post-COVID, by allowing capital, labor, skills, and innovation to move into new businesses and sectors.” — World Bank, Oct 2020 Report
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India’s Agrarian Crisis: Father of Green Revolution Rejects GM Crops
Colin Todhunter | Asia Pacific Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Dec 2018
2 Dec 2018 – “Genetically Modified cotton in India is a failure. India should reject GM mustard. GM agriculture poses risks and is unsustainable. Regulatory bodies are dogged by incompetency and conflicts of interest. GM crops should therefore be banned.”
— M.S. Swaminathan, renowned agricultural scientist/geneticist and the father of the Green Revolution in India
India’s Farmers to March to Parliament to Highlight Agrarian Crisis
Colin Todhunter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Nov 2018
‘Kisan Mukti March’ to Delhi 28/30 Nov – Rooted in the Testimonies of its Victims
→ read full articleEntrenching Capitalist Agriculture in India under the Guise of “Development”
Colin Todhunter –Global Research,
12 Dec 2016
Washington’s long-term plan has been to restructure indigenous agriculture across the world and tie it to an international system of trade based on export-oriented mono-cropping, commodity production for the international market and indebtedness to international financial institutions (IMF/World Bank).
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Colin Todhunter – CounterPunch,
19 Sep 2016
The mergers would mean that three companies would dominate the commercial agricultural seeds and chemicals sector, down from six – Syngenta, Bayer, BASF, Dow, Monsanto and DuPont. Prior to the mergers, these six firms controlled 60 per cent of commercial seed and more than 75 per cent of agrochemical markets.
→ read full articleMonsanto in India: Meet the New Boss – Same as the Old Boss?
Colin Todhunter – CounterPunch,
8 Aug 2016
GMOs and private wealth accumulation. GMOs represent the ultimate stranglehold of US interests over global food via ‘terminator’ seed technology, seed patenting and intellectual property rights.
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Colin Todhunter – CounterPunch,
23 May 2016
Monsanto’s Assault on Europe – There are around 500 million people in the EU. They want EU officials to uphold the public interest and to be independent from commercial influence. They do not want them to serve and profit from commercial interests at cost to the public’s health and safety.
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Colin Todhunter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2016
Global Justice Now’s analysis of the BMGF’s programmes shows that the foundation’s senior staff are overwhelmingly drawn from corporate America. As a result, the question is: whose interests are being promoted – those of corporate America or those of ordinary people who seek social and economic justice rather than charity?
→ read full articleIndia Drives Forward First GMO Crops Under Veil of Secrecy
Colin Todhunter and Oliver Tickell - CounterPunch,
9 Nov 2015
4 Nov 2015 – A secret application has been made to India’s Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee for a new variety of GMO mustard . If accepted, this would be the first GMO variety to be approved in India – and could open the way for many more such applications for other major crops including staple foods like rice, wheat and chickpeas.
→ read full articleThe Case of Glyphosate: Product Promoters Masquerading as Regulators?
Colin Todhunter - CounterPunch,
31 Aug 2015
The US government is to blame for glyphosate onto the commercial market because of a global campaign to support the US biotech industry to dominate global agriculture. Our health is being sacrificed for the commercial interests of a few powerful corporations. At the very least, the public would like regulators to regulate, not product promote.
→ read full articleMonsanto’s Code of Silence Is Deafening
Colin Todhunter - CounterPunch,
24 Aug 2015
19 Aug 2015 – In his book Altered Genes, Twisted Truth, US public interest attorney Steven Druker exposed the fraudulent practices and deceptions that led to the commercialisation of GM food and crops in the US. He followed up by delivering a challenge to Monsanto’s headquarters on May 20, 2015 calling on the company to address the evidence presented in the book.
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Colin Todhunter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Mar 2015
In return for receiving aid money and corporate investment, African countries have to change their laws, making it easier for corporations to acquire farmland, control seed supplies and export produce.
→ read full articleBig Business “Regulators” and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP): Opening the Floodgates to Corporate Plunder
Colin Todhunter - Global Research,
2 Feb 2015
A new leak concerning the talks around the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) indicates that the floodgates could be opened even further for corporate influence.
→ read full articleIndia: Selling Out to Monsanto – GMOs and the Bigger Picture
Colin Todhunter - Global Research,
11 Aug 2014
The political backing for GMOs by the US State Department, the strategic position of the US GM biotech sector in international trade agreements and the push to get GMOs into India and to contaminate agriculture via open-field trials with the compliance of key officials and official bodies does not bode well.
→ read full articleContamination and Bio-Pollution: The Criminality of the GM Biotech Industry
Colin Todhunter - Global Research,
3 Mar 2014
There is currently a battle waging across the planet over genetically modified crops. The GM biotech industry tries to assure governments and the public about the safety and efficacy of their products, while study after study calls into question its claims.
→ read full articleGMO, Additives, Contaminants and Pesticides. European “Food Safety” on Behalf of the Food and Drink Conglomerates
Colin Todhunter - Global Research,
9 Dec 2013
Our food in their hands: Whose interests does the European Food Safety Authority serve? It is an independent European agency funded by the EU budget but operates separately from the European Commission, European Parliament and EU Member States.
→ read full articleTransatlantic Free Trade Agreement: A Corporate Power Grab
Colin Todhunter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2013
The Transatlantic Free Trade Agreement (TAFTA) between the US and EU intends to create the world’s largest free trade area, ‘protect’ investment and remove ‘unnecessary regulatory barriers’. Corporate interests are driving the agenda, with the public having been sidelined.
→ read full articleThe Future Is Local, the Future Is Organic
Colin Todhunter - Global Research,
30 Sep 2013
Well, at least it could be if we base our food production on an increasing body of evidence that indicates the harmful effects of petrochemical, corporate-controlled agriculture.
→ read full articleFull Spectrum Dominance: Weaponising the Weather
Colin Todhunter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2013
The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) is carrying out electromagnetic experimentations with the ionosphere and developing electromagnetic weaponry. It is claimed that HAARP intends to induce ionospheric modifications with a view to altering weather patterns and disrupting communications and radar.
→ read full articleGMO Agribusiness and the Destructive Nature of Global Capitalism
Colin Todhunter – Global Research,
25 Feb 2013
Capitalism is based on managing its inherent crises. It is also based on the need to maximise profit, beat down competitors, cut overheads and depress wages. With each new ‘fix’, with each technology, with each new pesticide, herbicide, GM innovation, we become further removed from working in harmony with nature. Capitalism doesn’t solve its problems, it just shifts them around. And part of the great con-trick is that it attempts to pass off its endless crises and failures as brilliant successes.
→ read full articleThe Lies of Democracy and the Language of Deceit
Colin Todhunter – Global Research,
21 Jan 2013
As a recent article has indicated, from mass bombing in Southeast Asia to employing death squads in South America, the US military and the CIA have been directly and indirectly responsible for an updated figure of an estimated ten million deaths. But it’s not called mass murder these days. Ironically, the US has hijacked the word ‘terror’ to justify its brand of tyranny through a war on terror.
→ read full articleThe Cancer Cash Cycle: The Causes of Cancer and Ill Health
Colin Todhunter – Global Research,
14 Jan 2013
Cancer is big business. Despite massive public screening campaigns and talk of cures, cancer rates continue to soar, and certain companies not only profit from making the chemicals that cause cancer but also from selling the drugs that treat it.
→ read full articleThe Gandhian Movement of Empowerment: Revolutionary Acts at the Community Level
Colin Todhunter – Global Research,
8 Oct 2012
Leprosy: Empowering Some of India’s Most Disadvantaged
→ read full articleDollar Hegemony in the Empire of the Damned
Colin Todhunter – Global Research,
1 Oct 2012
Many commentators and economists wonder if the US is able to turn its ailing economy around. The reality is that it is bankrupt. However, as long as the dollar remains the world currency, the US can continue to pay its bills by simply printing more money. But once the world no longer accepts the dollar as world reserve currency, the US will no longer be able to continue to pay its way or to fund its wars by relying on what would then be a relatively valueless paper currency.
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