Human rights groups, progressives, and members of the national security establishment are extremely concerned.
Two agribusiness giants bent on destroying the ecosystem for private profit could soon dominate the world's seed and pesticide markets.
Nicholas Powers is the author of The Ground Below Zero: 9/11 to Burning Man, New Orleans to Darfur, Haiti to Occupy Wall Street, published by Upset Press. He is an associate professor of English at SUNY Old Westbury and has been writing for Truthout since 2011. His article, "Killing the Future: The Theft of Black Life" in the Truthout anthology Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? coalesces his years of reporting on police brutality.
