Selected Articles: GMOs, Quantitative Easing & American Exceptionalism

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Global Research, September 23, 2015

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Genetically Modified Mustard in India: Monumental Fraud and Regulatory Delinquency

By Colin Todhunter, September 23, 2015

The approval and planting of large-scale field trials of genetically modified (GM) mustard in India is currently taking place. According to environmentalist Aruna Rodrigues, this is completely unconscionable. It is occurring even as the Supreme Court-appointed Technical Expert Committee (TEC) Report awaits adjudication in India’s Supreme Court, which expressly recommends a bar on herbicide-tolerant (HT) crops. As a result, Rodrigues is mounting a legal challenge as the lead petitioner in a Public Interest Litigation.

Kenyan Farmers Suing Government to Uphold GM Crop Ban

By Christina Sarich, September 23, 2015

First Kenyans demonstrated to try to get through to their government for ‘encroaching on constitutional rights’ and reversing a GM crop ban, and now a small group of farmers has taken their plea to the courts.

Time for “Quantitative Easing for People instead of Banks” (PQE): Raining Money on Main Street

By Ellen Brown, September 23, 2015

Predictions are that we will soon be seeing the “nuclear option” — central bank-created money injected directly into the real economy. All other options having failed, governments will be reduced to issuing money outright to cover budget deficits. So warns a September 18 article on ZeroHedge titled “It Begins: Australia’s Largest Investment Bank Just Said ‘Helicopter Money’ Is 12-18 Months Away.”

Debunking the Myth of American Exceptionalism

By Dr. Gary G. Kohls, September 23, 2015

The myth of American Exceptionalism is widely, but perhaps insincerely, believed by most American thought-leaders and political and economic elites, whether they are radical Republican Party members/voters or are members/voters of the moderate “Republican” wing of the Democratic Party.

Will US Grasp Putin’s Syria Lifeline?

By Robert Parry, September 23, 2015

Russian President Vladimir Putin has thrown U.S. policymakers what amounts to a lifeline to pull them out of the quicksand that is the Syrian war, but Official Washington’s neocons and the mainstream U.S. news media are growling about Putin’s audacity and challenging his motives.

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