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Four Words Gates and His Pals Despise: Democracy & Minimum Support Price

Colin Todhunter The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and an assortment of high-profile figures and policymakers are pushing for unregulated gene-editing technologies, the rollout of bio-synthetic food created in laboratories, the expanded use of patented seeds and the rollback of subsidies and support for farmers in places like India. These neoliberal evangelists despise democracy and …

The Kisan Charter – ‘Farmers are not just a residue from our past but integral to the future of India and the world’

Till just the other day, they were committing suicide, while some of them were demonstrating in Jantar Mantar, Delhi, humiliating themselves by disrobing and eating rats, trying in vain to draw the attention of the political establishment to their plight.  And to pour salt on their wounds, BJP leaders were saying that committing suicide had … Continue reading The Kisan Charter – ‘Farmers are not just a residue from our past but int