Sabine Hiller 💔🇵🇸🇬🇱🇺🇦1d ago

#Monbiot on the imminent danger of a collapse of the global food system:

#Policy "across most of the world appears to consist of allowing “the market” (namely a few huge global corporations) to decide what happens next. There’s another way of putting it. Our governments are leaving a group of ruthless speculators to play dice with our lives"

#food #USIsrael #Iran #consolidation
#collapse #foodsecurity #plantbased

@EUCommission
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/25/big-corporations-global-food-system-war-iran

We’re letting big corporations gamble with our lives. Act now, or the food could run out

The fragility of the global food system fills me with dread – and the war with Iran has exposed just how close to collapse it is, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Techdirt2d ago

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Democracy Matters Mar 18

Brendan Carr threatens the media again. He wants only “positive” coverage of Trump’s idiotic forever war.

Silencing free speech kills democracy.

If we can’t remove Trump, we can do our damnedest to remove his “fixer.”

#Iran #BrendanCarr #FCC #Consolidation #Sinclair #Nexstar #FreeSpeech #USPol

Osna.FMMar 16
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