29 July 2021 — Sustainable Pulse
Bayer have announced that they will no longer sell glyphosate-based herbicides to U.S. gardeners as of 2023, following the costly litigation battle over their cancer causing weedkiller Roundup.
Day: July 29, 2021
The stories we trust: Regulating genome edited organisms
26 July 2021 — GMWatch
Barbara Van Dyck unpacks the narratives that underpin corporate campaigns to deregulate new GM technologies
EXCERPT: In repeating industry narratives, decision-makers (and the media) pave the ground for a handful of corporations to advance false solutions that serve their encroachment of food systems. To help clarify valid claims from technological bluff, we recommend institutions, regulators and funders to carry out a ‘hype test’ by asking: What makes gene editing superior to other, more systemic options including agroecology, that makes it successful in producing healthier plants, animals and crops and healthier food?
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The Great Contest of Our Time Is between Humanity and Imperialism: The Thirtieth Newsletter (2021)
29 July 2021 — Tricontinental
Uttam Ghosh (India), Let Cuba Live, 2021.
Dear friends,
Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.
On 23 July 2021, a full-page appeal appeared in the New York Times calling on United States President Joe Biden to withdraw the vindictive US blockade against Cuba. As that appeal went to press, I spoke to Chinese journalist Lu Yuanzhi of Global Times (GT). The remainder of this newsletter carries the contents of that interview, which ranges from the US policy against Cuba to the New Cold War against China.
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The New Dark Age 