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Selected Articles: Nestlé and the Privatization of Water
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Global Research, August 27, 2019

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Nestlé and the Privatization of Water

By Franklin Frederick, August 27, 2019

Last February, the Government of Switzerland announced the creation of a Foundation in Geneva, under the name ‘Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator’ (GSDA). The purpose of this new foundation is to regulate new technologies, from drones and automatic cars to genetic engineering, which are examples mentioned by the Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis at the public launch of this initiative.

Are Sanders and Warren Throwing a Lifeline to the Military-Industrial Complex?

By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies, August 27, 2019

Among the frontrunners in the Democratic Party presidential primary, Senators Warren and Sanders not only have the most progressive domestic agenda, but also the most anti-war, pro-diplomacy foreign policy agenda. The sharpest distinction between them is that Sanders has voted against over 80% of recent record military spending bills in the Senate, while Warren has voted for two thirds of them. 

Globalization and Women’s Rights: Economic Restructuring, Women’s Experiences and Responses to “Neoliberal Shocks”

By Tina Renier, August 27, 2019

There is a critical nexus between colonial development and economic re-structuring processes in the Third world whereby globalization is an ideological weapon that extends imperial control over ex-colonies through persistent poverty and underdevelopment.

Tinderbox Earth: The Significance of the Amazon and Siberian Fires

By Dr. Andrew Glikson, August 27, 2019

As fires rage across tens of thousands square km the Amazon forest, dubbed the Planet’s lungs, producing some 20 percent of the oxygen in the atmosphere, with some 72,843 fires in Brazil this year, where fires on such a scale are uncommon, as well as through Siberia, Alaska, Greenland,  southern Europe and elsewhere, they herald a world where increasing temperatures and droughts overwhelm original habitats, flora and fauna.

World Extreme Weather: Is it Man or Something Else?

By F. William Engdahl, August 27, 2019

Our planet seems to be in a growing crisis in terms of agriculture and crop production related to unusual weather shifts. Many reports in recent months use the term “extreme weather” to describe record heat across Europe this summer, record flooding in US Midwest farm states, or record drought across India and major parts of Africa and China.

America’s Authoritarian Use of the Word “Authoritarianism”

By Dr. Dennis Etler, August 27, 2019

We see the word “authoritarianism” all over the US media, a blanket term employed to describe countries that the United States government currently considers as threats to its interests.

The West Is Spinning the “Cultural Genocide” of Macedonians

By Bill Nicholov, August 26, 2019

What they could be doing, instead, is preventing the forced name and identity change on Macedonia and Macedonians. Yes, the one initiated by Greece, and executed by the West.

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