In Kenya, a law was passed in 2012 that prohibits farmers’ rights to save, share, exchange or sell unregistered seeds. Farmers could face up to two years in prison and a fine of up to 1 million Kenyan shillings (equivalent to nearly four years’ wages for a farmer). Source Views: 0
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Mike Lindell’s Latest Election Deception: Sowing Doubts About Kentucky Governor’s Race
Pillow salesman turned Trump-supporting election conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell is now making baseless insinuations that the recent reelection victory of popular Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear was somehow rigged. In an email sent Tuesday to supporters of his “Lindell Offense Fund,” Lindell wrongly claimed that “it makes no sense” that Beshear defeated the Trump-endorsed Republican candidate, […]
Washington Has Been Sowing the Wind Decades and It’s Time to Yield the Hurricanes
January 10, 2023 By Mohammad Youssef Lebanon – Three years ago, on January 2020, the world has observed a very important event, the first Iranian military response to the assassination of Quds Force commander General Qassem Soleimani. The Iranian reprisal was directed against the American base Ain al-Asad in Iraq. This military response came directly […]
How the Right Is Sowing Doubt in Our Elections
As voters head to the polls today, a right-wing campaign to sow doubt in the 2022 midterms is underway. Since former President Donald Trump lost the 2020 election and tried to overturn the election results by alleging voter fraud, the GOP has fallen in line behind him, making so-called “election integrity” a key component of its […]
Antivirus Used by Millions Blocked All Google Sites by Mistake, Sowing Chaos
Image: Luis Alvarez/Getty Images A popular antivirus that’s used by millions of people around the world blocked all Google sites and services on Wednesday due to a mistake. For around an hour on Wednesday morning, some people who had Malwarebytes antivirus installed on their computers could not visit any Google site or use services like Gmail […]
The think tank industrial complex: Sowing doubt and disinformation
Think tanks, as defined by the Oxford dictionary, are, “a body of experts providing advice and ideas on specific political or economic problems”. Unrecognized by most people, in many ways these outfits help to shape public opinion about the most important issues of our time, almost always in favor of the status quo. The most […]
Sowing Global Chaos as a National Defense Strategy
Presenting the 2018 National Defense Strategy of the United States on Friday at the Johns Hopkins University, Secretary of Defense James Mattis painted a picture of a dangerous world in which U.S. power – and all of the supposed “good” that it does around the world – is on the decline. “Our competitive edge has […]
A National Defense Strategy Of Sowing Global Chaos
A National Defense Strategy Of Sowing Global Chaos Above Photo: Known locations of U.S. military bases around the world (Source: Politico) Presenting the 2018 National Defense Strategy of the United States on Friday at the Johns Hopkins University, Secretary of Defense James Mattis painted a picture of a dangerous world in which U.S. power – […]