The herbicide glyphosate – the most widely used herbicide on the planet – is authorised for use in the EU until December 2022. The EU is currently assessing whether its licence should be renewed. Environmentalist and campaigner Dr Rosemary Mason has just written an open letter to the head of the Pesticides Unit at the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA),[Read More…]
The Biden EPA has put a stop to use of the pesticide chlorpyrifos on food crops, thereby reversing a decision by the Trump administration to allow it to continue to be sprayed on vegetables and fruit in spite of an Obama administration order in 2015 to ban the pesticide for public health reasons. This is but one of many examples[Read More…]
Background In 2017, hundreds of small-scale farmers and farm workers were poisoned – and over 20 died – in just a few weeks whilst spraying pesticides on cotton fields in the district of Yavatmal. A key product involved was the insecticide Polo, manufactured by Syngenta. The use of Polo’s active ingredient diafenthiuron is long banned in Switzerland and the European[Read More…]
A newly published analysis in the journal Frontiers in Environmental Science argues that a toxic soup of insecticides, herbicides and fungicides is causing havoc beneath fields covered in corn, soybeans, wheat and other monoculture crops. The research is the most comprehensive review ever conducted on how pesticides affect soil health. The study is discussed by two of the report’s authors,[Read More…]
On 12 March 2020, British PM Boris Johnson, referring to COVID-19, informed the public: “We’ve all got to be clear; this is the worst public health crisis for a generation.” Since that time, we have seen lockdowns, on ongoing government-backed fear campaign, fundamental rights being stripped away, dissent censored, inflated COVID-19 death numbers and the use of a flawed PCR[Read More…]
The British government, regulators and global agrochemical corporations are colluding with each other and are thus engaging in criminal behaviour. That’s the message put forward in a new report written by environmentalist Dr Rosemary Mason and sent to the UK Environment Agency. It follows her January 2019 open letter to Werner Baumann, CEO of Bayer CropScience, where she made it clear[Read More…]
An anthropogenic mass extinction is underway that will affect all life on the planet and humans will struggle to survive the phenomenon. So claims Dr Rosemary Mason in a paper (2015) in the Journal of Biological Physics and Chemistry. Loss of biodiversity is the most urgent of the environmental problems because this type of diversity is critical to ecosystem services and[Read More…]
Agrochemical manufacturers are knowingly poisoning people and the environment in the name of profit and greed. Communities, countries, ecosystems and species have become disposable inconveniences. Corporate totalitarian tries to hide beneath an increasingly fragile facade of democracy. The agrochemicals industry lobbies hard to have its products put on the market and ensures that they remain there. It uses PR firms and front[Read More…]
It is based on a cesspool of corruption that is most probably responsible for more death and disease than the combined efforts of the tobacco companies ever were. It is sheer criminality that hides behind corporate public relations, media misrepresentations and the subversion of respectable-sounding agencies which masquerade as public institutions. The ‘agrochemicals-agritech industry’ should not be regarded as some kind of faceless concept because[Read More…]
The Logic of Hegemony 
Agriculture, technology, and addiction 
Making Sense of the Eviction Crisis 
Pegasus and Fables of National Security 
‘Jailed’ Children 
Tribute to Sushital Roy Chowdhury 
Caste Census And Secular Intellectuals 
The Debacle of “Nation Building” in Afghanistan and Iraq 
Afghanistan and India’s ‘over-the-horizon’ dilemma 
Energy needed to eradicate poverty ‘compatible with climate goals’ 
No, The World Is Not Welcoming Afghan Refugees as It Should 
Beware: Big Oil Lies About the Climate 
Shut Down the Drone War 
A Story Poem about Climate Change 
From the ‘Iron Wall’ to the ‘Villa in the Jungle’: Palestinians Demolish Israel’s Security Myths 
Book on Bebo to be launched on her birthday 
Climate Change Is the Symptom, Capitalism Is the Problem 
Are Hindutva and Hinduism the Same? 
Strong directions of CJI on tribunals 
Canadian Imperialism in Africa 
Foreign Devils on the Silk Road 
The Only Long-Range Solution to Climate Change 
Experiencing the Wrath of Ida and the Bliss of Gaia 
“2,180+ Scientists Worldwide Demand ‘Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty’ 
DEAD BEES and BUTTERFLIES, FLOWES, TREE and the PLASTIC SEA 
Need for Caution and Care in Protecting Edible Oil Interests 
The True Lessons of the Afghan War 
Revisiting the Propaganda Model in the age of Social Media 
Dalit Agricultural Labourers Lay Siege To The House Of Punjab Chief Minister 
Hindi Has Arrived! 
Biden Doctrine appears in Persian Gulf 
Climate Emergency May Displace 216 Million Within Countries by 2050: World Bank 
Climate Emergency: The War We Must Fight 
Bitcoin the Messiah: El Salvador Goes Crypto 
American Muslims 20 years after 9/11 
Suicides, drug addiction on rise in MP due to Covid induced job losses 
Radical Desi honours Sikh temple president for standing up for Indigenous peoples 
Year After Year, Sages of Matri Sadan Continue Their Struggle and Sacrifice for Protecting the Ganga Never Forget Victims of the Drone Program 
The Winner in Afghanistan: China 
Dear Authors and Readers of Countercurrents, You may all know Sheshu Babu an author for CC for long time. Most of our old authors may have received at least one thoughtful comment from him. In the early days, he used to read all CC articles and post a thoughtful comment for each article. Then one day, another CC author Emily[Read More…]
