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by Thierry Meyssan

Paris (France) | 27 February 2024

Across the European Union, farmers are rising up against the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), which subsidizes them. Governments are responding with adjustment measures, bureaucratic simplifications and a few words of comfort. In reality, they are powerless in the face of a structure designed (…)

Russia offers 300,000 tons of fertilizer to developing countries

17 September 2022

President Vladimir Putin announced to the Secretary General of the United Nations, as well as reiterated to the Council of Heads of State and Government of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, his intention to make available to developing countries the 300,000 tons of fertilizers currently (…)

G7 response to the global food crisis

Washington D. C. (États-Unis) | 28 June 2022

Biden-Harris Administration is Driving a Multi-Pronged Response to Global Food Security Crisis
President Biden and G7 leaders will announce that they will contribute over $4.5 billion to address global food security, over half of which will come from the United States. President Biden will (…)

António Guterres calls for end of embargo on Russian fertilizers

18 May 2022

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has urged for the immediate lifting of the West’s embargo against Russian fertilizers. Indeed, Russia is the largest producer of fertilizers in the world. The shortage in this area is already being felt in the agricultural sector worldwide. If (…)

Russian army seizes North Crimean Canal

9 March 2022

This news item was destroyed during the attack on our website the weekend of 5-6 March 2022. We are republishing it.
The upper part of the North Crimean Canal, connecting Crimea to the Dnieper River, was captured by the Russian army. Efforts immediately began to restore Crimea’s drinking water (…)

US and EU provoke food crisis in Syria

12 June 2020

The International Coalition having abandoned all hope of destroying the Syrian Arab Republic by force, the United States and the European Union are now seeking to achieve the same result by making people hungry.
The siege of Syria has begun. Economic sanctions have been severely tightened and (…)

Pentagon’s plan: transformation of cereal fields into GMOs

8 October 2018

The journal Science has published a DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) research study on “Insect Allies” [1]. It appears that the Pentagon has in mind infecting insects with viruses capable of implanting genes in fields of cereals that have arrived at maturity. This would allow (…)

«Current Concerns», n°19, August 21, 2018

Food Security

Zurich (Switzerland) | 24 August 2018

Required – an uprising of the sheep against the death sentence of the dominant financial and trade policy! Food security must be raised to the level of a human right, by Heinrich Wohlmeyer / Yes to productional agriculture without agricultural free trade – no to further weakening of federalism / (…)

Will 7 million Iraqis be deprived of water this summer?

11 June 2018

According to the Iraqi Minister of Hydraulic Resources, this summer around 7 million people could be without water and therefore would have to be moved to other regions of the country.
Over the last year, several sources of water have seen their level drop drastically. The two images above (…)

«Current Concerns», n°29-30, December 1st, 2017

Agricultural policy

Zurich (Switzerland) | 3 January 2018

Agricultural policy must take into account global developments, by Gotthard Frick / World Agriculture Report as the basis for a national agricultural policy / US boosts Special Operations Forces Presence at Russia’s Border, by Peter Korzun / Will the war against Russia be prepared?, by Karl (…)

India replaces China as Afghanistan’s Supplier

31 October 2017

Afghanistan’s wheat supply, which has traditionally been undertaken by China via Pakistan, is now compromised by the transit of Indian goods via Iran.
The agreement that India, Iran and Afghanistan signed last May (2017) in Teheran has just entered into force. It provides for 500 million (…)

The Biggest Theft Committed by One Sovereign State against Another

by Jorge Wejebe Cobo

Havana (Cuba) | 21 July 2017

In 1959, the first year of the Cuban Revolution, the Agrarian Reform was announced. This was pursuant to a strategy adopted by the new leaders navigating the Cuban ship, notably, the Cuban leader Fidel Castro, to dismantle the structures that the neo-colonial model had put in place. The United (…)

«Current Concerns», n°28, December 13th, 2016

Food Security

Zurich (Switzerland) | 13 December 2016

UN to cut aid to displaced population in Syria

21 September 2014

The World Food Program announced that, due to a funding shortfall, it was forced to reduce food rations for Syrian refugees.
WFP has decided to maintain its food assistance to refugees located in neighboring countries, but will reduce it to 825 calories a day (that is to say less than half the (…)

"The Art of War"

And the economy of death flies on!

by Manlio Dinucci

Rome (Italy) | 29 September 2012

Nearly 17 million Americans, or 5.5 percent of the population, suffer from hunger and have gone at least one full day without eating during the last three months because of a lack of money. Another 33 million can only afford to buy low-quality food and suffer from nutritional imbalances. (…)

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