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by Vijay Prashad / April 8th, 2021 From left to right: Vijay Prashad, Fred M’membe, Diego Sequera, and Erika Farías in Caracas, 2019. Photograph taken by Yeimi Salinas. On 12 August 2021, the people of Zambia will vote to elect a new president, who will be the seventh person elected to the office since Zambia won its independence from the United Kingdom in 1964 if the incumbent loses. The incumbent, President Edgar Lungu, is facing a strong challenge from Fred M’membe, the presidential candidate of the Socialist Party Zambia. M’membe knows the importance of a challenge. As the editor o...

OPINION | Covid-19: Militarism and big money trampling humanity Search You Are Here:Home → 2021 → April → 9 → OPINION | Covid-19: Militarism and big money trampling humanity OPINION | Covid-19: Militarism and big money trampling humanity By ROMEO F. QUIJANO University of the Philippines Manila The Covid-19 pandemic is probably the most devastating disaster that has descended on humanity. Even the crude statistics of doubtful accuracy is petrifying: 133,181,257 cases and 2,889,631 deaths worldwide as of April 7, 2021. (1) and still counting after one year of seemingly ...

Seed monopolies: Who controls the world's food supply? Seed laws criminalizing farmers for using diverse crops that stand a better chance of adapting to climate change are threatening food security. Seed sovereignty activists want to reclaim the right to plant. More than half of the global seed market is in the hands of just a few corporations For thousands of years of human agriculture, the intrinsic nature of a seed — the capacity to reproduce itself — prevented it from being easily commodified. Grown and resown by farmers, seeds were freely exchanged and shared.  All that changed in ...

news Seed monopolies: Who controls the world's food supply? dw.com 3 hrs ago Charli Shield Seed laws criminalizing farmers for using diverse crops that stand a better chance of adapting to climate change are threatening food security. Seed sovereignty activists want to reclaim the right to plant. © Frank May/dpa/picture alliance More than half of the global seed market is in the hands of just a few corporations For thousands of years of human agriculture, the intrinsic nature of a seed — the capacity to reproduce itself — prevented it from being easily commodified. Gr...

- Advertisement - In his younger days, former Singapore minister George Yeo came to the notice of the Internal Security Department (ISD), Singapore’s domestic intelligence agency, partly due to his association with the late Malaysian civil society activist Martin Khor, he disclosed in his Facebook post on April 1. On Facebook, the 66-year-old Yeo described his time as an undergraduate at Cambridge University with Martin Khor: “Martin became like an elder brother to me in Cambridge. Through him I was introduced to Marx, Lenin, Mao and the Communist Manifesto. In my second and third year, a...