UNAC Editor Capitalism, GMO Argriculture, Imperialism, Russia
by Michael Cohen, published on Covert Action Magazine, May 31, 2022
This is an important article showing the depth of the conflict and what is really at stake for the future. Russia rejects GMO agriculture! While they are blaming Russia, the worlds largest producer of grain, for causing a ‘famine’ we see that Russia holds the key to avoiding future man made famine and present artificially created
| Soon we shall be covered by wheat. Did you say, wheat?Wheat, wheat.– from Woody Allen’s “Love and Death”[1] |
Ten months before Russian troops poured into Ukraine, that country’s President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a bill into law authorizing the private sale of farmland, reversing a moratorium that had been in place since 2001.
An earlier administration in Ukraine had instituted the moratorium in order to halt further privatization of The Commons and small farms, which were being bought up by oligarchs and concentrated in fewer and fewer hands. As documented in a series of critical reports over ten years by the Oakland Institute based in California, the moratorium on land sales in Ukraine aimed to prevent the acquisition and consolidation of farmland in the hands of the domestic oligarch class and foreign corporations.
The marketization of farmland is part of a series of policy “reforms” that the International Monetary Fund stipulated as a precondition enabling Ukraine to receive $8 billion in loans from the IMF.[2]
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