“Bad for African Farmers, Bad for the Planet”: How the Gates Foundation Is Driving the Food System in the Wrong Direction

 

“Bad for African Farmers, Bad for the Planet”: How the Gates Foundation Is Driving the Food System in the Wrong Direction By Grain, July 01, 2021 The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has spent nearly US$6 billion over the past 17 years trying to improve agriculture, mainly in Africa. This is a lot of money for an underfunded sector, and, as such, carries great weight. To better understand how the Gates Foundation is shaping the global agriculture agenda, GRAIN analysed all the food and agriculture grants the foundation has made up until 2020.

Demonizing Dissenters: From Hyping WMDs in Iraq to Denying the Existence of Weapons of Mass Injections By Teodrose Fikremariam, July 01, 2021 Eighteen years ago, the American public and countries that belonged in the “coalition of the willing” were duped into a war with Iraq that led to a genocide. At least 600,000 Iraqis perished over the span of a decade as innocent men, women and children were burnt at the altar of the military-financial complex based on a discredited theory that Saddam Hussein possessed Weapons of Mass Destruction and was intent on unleashing them against the West.

China’s Communist Party’s 100th Anniversary: “Today’s Blending of Rampant Capitalism and the Heavy Hand of the State” By Tom Clifford, July 01, 2021 Even the weather seemed to be obeying the script. At 9am on Thursday morning a brief thunder storm hit northern Beijing. Nothing unusual in that, it is after all the height of summer and the rainy season. But about 20 km away in central Tiananmen Square where President Xi Jinpingwas leading celebrations to mark the communist party’s 100th anniversary the massed ranks remained largely dry. The storm passed. Nothing, it seemed, would get in the way of the party’s party.

History of China’s Communist Party (1921-2021): A 100-Year Legacy of Success and Forward Vision By Peter Koenig, July 01, 2021 The legendary Chinese success story goes hand-in-hand with the evolution of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and China’s Communist Revolution that began in 1945. The foundation of the CPC on 1 July 1921 signaled the end of some 200 years of China’s oppression by foreign powers, to western invasions and exploitation, grabbing China’s territories and especially her rich natural resources – and to gain trading advantages, including from the riches of China’s resources and crafts.

Canada’s Government Is Seeking to Silence Canadian Journalists at Home and Abroad with a Draconian Censorship Bill By Eva Bartlett, July 01, 2021 As a Canadian journalist, I could be subject to a censorship bill which, if passed in Senate, means the government in Canada can effectively shadow-ban and censor my voice into oblivion, along with other dissenting voices.

Did We Put Kids in “Plastic Boxes” with No Evidence? “Plastic Shields to Reduce the Risk of COVID-19” By Dr. Joseph Mercola, July 01, 2021 Despite a lack of evidence that plastic shields would reduce the risk of COVID-19 transmission and documentation that children are at a much lower risk for COVID than adults, officials recommended masks and plastic boxes to separate and socially distance children.

Bill Gates and Neo-Feudalism: A Closer Look at Farmer Bill By Robert F. Kennedy Jr, July 01, 2021 The global lockdowns that Bill Gates helped orchestrate and cheerlead have bankrupted more than 100,000 businesses in the U.S. alone and plunged a billion people into poverty and deadly food insecurity that, among other devastating harms, kill 10,000 African children monthly — while increasing Gates’ wealth by $20 billion. His $133 billion fortune makes him the world’s fourth wealthiest man.

America Leader of the Free World? How to Forget U.S. interference in Foreign Elections By Philip Giraldi, July 01, 2021 After only five months in office, President Joe Biden has already become notorious for his verbal gaffes and mis-spokes, so much so that an admittedly Republican-partisan physician has suggested that he be tested to determine his cognitive abilities.

The Chinese Miracle, Revisited By Pepe Escobar, July 01, 2021 The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) centennial takes place this week at the heart of an incandescent geopolitical equation. China, the emerging superpower, is back to the global prominence it enjoyed throughout centuries of recorded history, while the declining Hegemon is paralyzed by the “existential challenge” posed to its fleeting, unilateral dominance.

July 1st 1867: Canada’s National Sovereignty: America’s Plan to Annex and Invade Canada By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, July 01, 2021 Among the millions of Canadians celebrating the 154th anniversary of the signing of the British North American Act (July 1st 1867) how many are actually aware that our Southern neighbour, the United States of America had formulated in 1924 a carefully designed plan to invade Canada and bomb Montreal, Quebec City, Halifax and Vancouver.

George Orwell’s 1984 Has Become a Blueprint for Our Dystopian Reality By John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead, July 01, 2021 It’s been more than 70 years since Orwell—dying, beset by fever and bloody coughing fits, and driven to warn against the rise of a society in which rampant abuse of power and mass manipulation are the norm—depicted the ominous rise of ubiquitous technology, fascism and totalitarianism in 1984.

NATO Practices Sinking Russian Submarines in the Arctic By Rick Rozoff, July 01, 2021 NATO began its annual Dynamnic Mongoose anti-submarine warfare exercise on June 28 off the coast of Norway in what the military bloc deems the High North: the Arctic region, which it has identified as its domain since 2009. (As it has the Mediterranean Sea, Baltic Sea and Black Sea.)