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Mexico’s “National Crusade Against Hunger” is a ploy to impose GM Corn
In a previous report (“Red alert! GMO avalanche in Mexico”),1 we recounted the circumstances leading up to the imminent threat of the introduction of genetically engineered (GE) organisms (also known as GMOs, genetically modified organisms, or transgenics) into Mexico and several other Latin American countries. The whole continent is seeing a wave of measures, such Read full article...
Ethiopia’s Famine courtesy of GM seed Laundering
The “economic therapy” imposed under IMF-World Bank jurisdiction is in large part responsible for triggering famine and social devastation in Ethiopia and the rest of sub-Saharan Africa, wreaking the peasant economy and impoverishing millions of people. With the complicity of branches of the US government, it has also opened the door for the appropriation of Read full article...
Sustainable Urban Agriculture in Cuba
The agricultural revolution in Cuba has ignited the imaginations of people all over the world. Cuba’s model serves as a foundation for self-sufficiency, resistance to neocolonialist development projects, innovations in agroecology, alternatives to monoculture, and a more environmentally sustainable society. Instead of turning towards austerity measures and making concessions to large international powers during a Read full article...
Gene-swapping vaccines spawn lethal poultry virus
REUTERS | JULY 16, 2012 Three vaccines used to prevent respiratory disease in chickens have swapped genes, producing two lethal new strains that have killed tens of thousands of fowl across two states in Australia, scientists reported on Friday. The creation of the deadly new variant was only possible because the vaccines contained live viruses, Read full article...
In Brazil, it is Monsanto vs 5,000,000
By LUIS MIRANDA | THE REAL AGENDA | JUNE 4, 2012 Monsanto is one of the most powerful corporations on the planet and one of a handful that heavily influences government policy when it comes to food production. This company is also one of a few that has proposed as their main goal to control perhaps the most important Read full article...
United Nations Will Pursue a Global Green Government at Rio+20 Summit
By ALEX NEWMAN | THE NEW AMERICAN | APRIL 27, 2012 A recently released United Nations report outlines the global body’s plan to foist a centrally planned “green” world order on all of humanity, making every level of government subservient to its “sustainable development” agenda. The upcoming Rio+20 sustainability conference in Brazil — held two decades Read full article...
The Shocking Reality About GMOs
by Dave Opiyo AllAfrica.com July 12, 2011 The spectre of people developing new and strange allergies, indigenous seeds losing their genetic codes and disappearing altogether, farmers making bumper harvests — or no harvests at all — is in the air. Two weeks ago on July 1, Kenya became the fourth African nation to permit imports Read full article...
Who is Behind Mexico’s Drug War?
Eurasia Review On Friday, two patrol cars were ambushed by armed gunman in downtown Ciudad Juarez. In the ensuing firefight, seven policemen were killed as well as a 17-year old boy who was caught in the crossfire. All of the assailants escaped uninjured fleeing the crime-scene in three SUVs. The bold attack was executed in Read full article...
