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Academi (ex-Blackwater) was not sold (correction)

10 August 2013

In a brief, dated from July 26th 2013, we revealed that, according to SouthWeb, Academi (former Blackwater) had been bought off by Monsanto [1].
Yet, SouthWeb backtracked on this information and refuted it. According to it, Monsanto did in fact have recourse to the services of the most (...)

Academi (ex-Blackwater) acquired by Monsanto

4 August 2013

See Erratum : « Academi (ex-Blackwater) was not sold (correction) », Voltaire Network, July 26th, 2013.
Academi (ex-Blackwater), the world’s most powerful private army, reveals having been signed over, without indicating the name of the buyer, nor the amount for which it was bought. (...)

GMO Crop Catastrophe in USA a lesson for EU

by F. William Engdahl

Frankfurt (Germany) | 22 August 2010

As the European Union moves closer to approving the cultivation of GMOs despite stiff widespread opposition, it ought to be paying urgent attention to the agricultural arms race unfolding in the United States. Roundup-resistant “superweeds” are plaguing Monsanto crops across southern US (...)

Argentina: Glyphosate kills Mother Nature

Córdoba (Argentina) | 30 March 2010

The fertile South American nation is now the world’s third largest producer of soy, trailing behind the United States and Brazil. However, this lucrative industrial form of farming has come under fire with environmental groups, local residents, and traditional farmers reporting that GM soy (...)

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Bill Gates talks about ‘vaccines to reduce population’

by F. William Engdahl

Frankfurt (Germany) | 5 March 2010

Microsoft founder and one of the world’s wealthiest men, Bill Gates, projects an image of a benign philanthropist using his billions via his (tax exempt) Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, to tackle diseases, solve food shortages in Africa and alleviate poverty. In a recent conference in (...)

Bill Gates, Rockefeller and the GMO giants know something we don’t

"Doomsday Seed Vault" in the Arctic

by F. William Engdahl

19 October 2009

Inaugurated in February 2008, this "frozen Noah’s Ark" is back in the news following UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon’s recent visit ahead of the key international climate talks in Copenhagen in December 2009. In this article, written in December 2007, F. William Engdahl comments that, when (...)

GMO Scandal: The Long Term Effects of Genetically Modified Food in Humans

by F. William Engdahl

15 September 2009

One of the great mysteries surrounding the spread of GMO plants around the world since the first commercial crops were released in the early 1990’s in the USA and Argentina has been the absence of independent scientific studies of possible long-term effects of a diet of GMO plants on humans or (...)

A Cancerous Conspiracy to Poison Your Faith in Organic Food

31 July 2009

Despite its obvious benefits for our health and for the environment, organic food continues to be denigrated by the political and corporate establishment in Britain. The food industry, in alliance with pharmaceutical and big biotechnology companies, has waged a long, often cynical campaign to (...)

Why Are Indian Farmers Committing Suicide and How Can We Stop This Tragedy?

by Vandana Shiva

23 May 2009

The factors that have caused 200,000 suicides in India are rooted in the policies of trade liberalization and corporate globalization which ensnare farmers in a spiral of indebtedness, generating despair.

Killing fields?

US Doctors’ association calls for Moratorium on GMO Foods

by F. William Engdahl

23 May 2009

In a just-released position paper on GMO foods, the American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) states that ‘GM foods pose a serious health risk’ and calls for a moratorium on GMO foods. Citing several animal studies, the AAEM concludes ‘there is more than a casual association between (...)

Venezuela - Food Sovereignty

Transnational companies pave the way for the cultivation of transgenics

by Claudia Jardim

Caracas (Venezuela) | 26 October 2004

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Misinformation, lack of governmental control and good propaganda. These are the elements that have favored the transnational producers of genetically modified seeds in Venezuela. The producers claim that experiments with transgenic corn are already underway. The Venezuelan (...)

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