February 20, 2025
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GM Watch Daily Digest 20 February 2025
Thursday, 20 February 2025 — GM Watch Joint letter to the EU Commission: Pseudo-science must not be an option for Europe! Today several civil society organisations (CSOs) – including GMWatch – and industry associations published a joint letter to the European Commission, demanding that they withdraw their proposal for deregulation of plants obtained from new Continue reading
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We Want to Build Communities of Readers, Not Turn Readers into Commodities: The Eighth Newsletter (2025)
Thursday, 20 February 2025 — The Tricontinental Katsukawa Shunshō (Japan), Japanese Women Reading and Writing, c. 1776. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. There are days when the dusk of events settles heavily on me, and I try to find a way to retreat into a quiet corner and Continue reading
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Remembering anti-racist stalwarts in threatening times
It is sadly ironic that, as we record the experiences of Professor Insa Koch and her young children of the hyper-securitisation of a society which she feels indicates a growing fascism in Germany, and as this week’s calendar reveals, the leader of the Tories, at an international hard-right gathering, echoes tropes about ‘some cultures being better than… Continue reading
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Laughter and fears: Berlin Bulletin No. 231, February 18, 2025
For good people these are times to weep, rage and, above all, to fight back! But sometimes we may allow ourselves a laugh. Such a time arrived this past weekend in Brussels and at the Security Conference in Munich. Though the big shots present were in no laughing mood—but in shock! Continue reading
The New Dark Age 