Food & Farm
GMO Wars: The Global Battlefield

GMO Wars: The Global Battlefield

This article is a joint publication of Foreign Policy In Focus and TheNation.com.  The GMO wars escalated earlier this month when the 2013 World Food Prize was awarded to three chemical company executives, including Monsanto executive vice president and chief...

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Ghana’s Chinese Gold Rush

Ghana’s Chinese Gold Rush

Compared to the West’s neoliberalism, China’s approach to investment in Africa has often been somewhat idealized as more of a “partnership” with the host country, with less moralizing by the Chinese over human rights practices and fewer strings attached economically....

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The Real North Korean Threat

The Real North Korean Threat

There is a terrible danger lurking just over the DMZ that threatens the Republic of Korea and Northeast Asia. That threat demands an immediate response that is focused and forceful, as well as a long-term strategy that will bring together all members of the...

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GM Seeds and the Militarization of Food (And Everything Else)

GM Seeds and the Militarization of Food (And Everything Else)

Jon Letman of Truthout interviews Dr. Vandana Shiva—a globally respected Indian physicist, philosopher, and activist—on Hawaii’s role as a testing site for both GMO crops and the military, Hawaii’s relationship with Asia, and on the largely unspoken connection between GE crops, climate change, militarism, and what Shiva calls “a war against the earth.”

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