This has been part of the plan all along with the war in Iran and the Persian Gulf, to raise the price of fuel and food to the moon and cause economic chaos. Of course they will have a solution, they always do and I’m sure it will involve a digital ID requirement to get your food rations. In order to receive your digital ID ration card you will have to catch up on all of your shots, i.e. COVID19 MOTB shots.
Prayed up and prepped up, time is running out!
“One-third of fertilizers are transported through the Strait of Hormuz. This route is also currently under threat, and this is particularly critical for the Southern Hemisphere, where planting is currently underway and fertilizers are urgently needed…. If the disruptions persist long enough, the current price correction, which we are putting up with for now, could turn into rationing—and that would have very different economic consequences……And I’m not even talking about what’s happening in the rest of the world. I have just returned from the IMF and World Bank spring meetings, ….. particularly from Asia, from some low-income and emerging economies that have been hit much harder than the U.S. and are already moving toward rationing!”
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This combination has been instrumental in relieving my symptoms over the past month!
Last month I wrote this article about using Magnesium Glycinate for my overall health and then I found how well it helped relieve my BPH symptoms (I’ve made that post free today so everyone can read it). Now I’ve found a combination of magnesium glycinate and DMSO that has been working well and I thought I’d give you all an update!
Here’s some information from the article above on WHY magnesium glycinate works for reduction in BPH symptoms.
Here is why Magnesium glycinate may have helped relieve my enlarged prostate (or BPH) symptoms due to its role in muscle relaxation, reducing inflammation, and balancing calcium levels—all key factors in prostate health.
Smooth Muscle Relaxation: Magnesium acts as a natural calcium channel blocker, helping relax smooth muscle in the bladder and prostate. This can reduce urinary retention, nocturia (nighttime urination), and frequent urination—common symptoms of BPH.
Anti-Inflammatory Effects: Chronic inflammation contributes to prostate enlargement. Magnesium inhibits NF-κB, a key transcription factor involved in inflammation, potentially reducing swelling and discomfort.
Calcium-Magnesium Balance: A high calcium-to-magnesium ratio is linked to increased BPH risk. Magnesium glycinate helps correct this imbalance, which may support normal prostate function and reduce abnormal tissue growth.
Bioavailability & Tolerance: Magnesium glycinate is highly absorbable and gentle on the stomach, making it ideal for long-term use. Its calming effect may also support overall pelvic floor health, which is often involved in BPH-related symptoms.
Several user reports and studies suggest that magnesium supplementation—especially in the glycinate form—can significantly improve urinary symptoms, even in cases of non-bacterial prostatitis or BPH, when used alongside lifestyle changes like pelvic floor exercises. While it may not shrink the prostate dramatically, it can greatly improve quality of life by easing functional symptoms.
DMSO is something I’ve been trying on myself for a couple of years now and I’ve found multiple uses for it in my quest for natural remedies including BPH. Here’s some information about how and why it works for BPH that I put in a different post awhile back.
Potential Mechanisms of Action Relevant to BPH
Anti-inflammatory Effects: DMSO possesses anti-inflammatory properties, which may help alleviate symptoms caused by inflammation in the lower urinary tract, including the prostate168. Since inflammation can contribute to urinary symptoms in BPH, reducing inflammation may provide some symptom relief.
Pain Reduction: DMSO acts as a counterirritant and can temporarily reduce pain perception, which may help with discomfort sometimes associated with BPH or related conditions6.
Improved Drug Delivery: DMSO is known for its ability to enhance the penetration of other medications through biological membranes, including the skin and mucosa8. This property could theoretically improve the effectiveness of other drugs used in combination with DMSO for prostate or bladder conditions.
Bladder Relaxation: In bladder instillation therapy, DMSO has been shown to relax the bladder and increase its capacity, which may indirectly benefit patients with lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) similar to those seen in BPH7.
While Saw Palmetto is a good supplement for relieving BPH symptoms I have not found it nearly as effective as adding more magnesium glycinate to my supplement regimen. Here is the kind that I use from NOW products. I also use their brand of Saw Palmetto as it’s combined with pumpkin seed oil, another valuable supplement in its own right but that’s for a different post.
So how do I use DMSO and magnesium glycinate? I’ve tried several different methods of ingestion including foot soaks, combined in a spray bottle (excellent for painful areas) and of course the capsules. I actually use all 3 but I use them for different reasons.
The capsules are what made the difference with my BPH symptoms. I take one in the morning and one in the late afternoon, usually around suppertime. That gives me 400mg per day and that’s where I noticed the biggest difference. When I use my DMSO along with the magnesium capsules I get CONSISTENTLY better flow! I waited for awhile before I wrote this because I wanted to make sure the results stuck and they have!
Now for how I use DMSO effectively to help with my BPH symptoms. I use my 50-50 mixture (half DMSO half distilled water) to start with and I put one full dropper into my tea. You can adjust yours however you need to but this is the recipe I use. I use raw honey in my tea as it helps with the sulfur taste of the DMSO and raw honey is super good for you. Here is the DMSO I use from Amazon.
Well I certainly wasn’t expecting to find this home remedy for BPH symptoms but I’m sure glad I did! Once again I can’t promise you that this will work for you in the same way as we are all different, but the evidence for it to do so is definitely there! I pray that this info finds you well and helps whoever it can! As usual here are the obligatory disclaimers! Until next time blessings to you all!
Johnny
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Cathy O’Brien explains how her abuse as a child in a multigenerational incest family led to her being trafficked into secret society circles and ultimately sold into the CIA’s MK Ultra mind control program. She describes being taken to her grandfather’s Masonic lodge, later to Mackinac Island, and how child sex trafficking grew into one of the most lucrative criminal businesses in the world. Cathy then details how a local politician in Muskegon, Michigan offered her father immunity for child pornography charges if he would hand her over to MK Ultra, and how that politician — Gerald Ford — went on to the presidency as her own victimization escalated to the White House and Pentagon level.
Editors Note: I was introduced to the horrors of MK Ultra programming through the books of Cathy O’Brien. I will put the links to those books below the video. There has always been more than one Epstein and these crimes have been going on for a long time, they’re just not covering their asses anymore.
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I’m so tired of tooth problems I could scream as the same tooth has been giving me trouble since last November and up until now they’ve been gaslighting me, telling me “oh we x-rayed it last month and it was fine”. Finally after my face has swollen up and the gum line above that tooth is very swollen they are removing the bothersome tooth tomorrow. Don’t get me wrong, I’m grateful its getting removed by why the gaslighting???
They tried to fix it by drilling deep and filling the cavity under the gum line, which was last November as I said above. That tooth hasn’t felt right since and the infection is my body saying “this is a foreign object and I’m trying to get rid of it”. The filling fell out back in December and I wish that had listened to me then and removed the darn thing. Three weeks ago when I had a different tooth removed I told them again that this tooth was the main issue but the dismissed my concerns. Now I have to deal with it yet again. Sigh.
I won’t be doing videos until its taken care of as I can’t speak properly now. Also the tooth has become antibiotic resistant so I had to get new stronger antibiotics but they might take a few days to work. However I’m trusting God to heal me more than the pills. I say that because even though this is by far the worst tooth infection I’ve had in my life, the pain has been very manageable. That is God’s grace at work because I know how this is supposed to feel and praise God I’m not feeling that kind of pain! Oh I have pain but it’s at a 3 or 4, not a 10 like in the past.
Keep your eyes on my Telegram channel as that’s where I can post and share things easily. Keep your eyes on this website as well. I will do my best during this difficult time. Please keep me in your prayers.
Since I recently underwent a tooth extraction (and pain from the tooth before that) I have been using my own blend of DMSO (Dimethyl sulfoxide), clove oil and some distilled water. I learned about this by researching DMSO and dental pain and what I found has really helped! Clove oil is a known pain reliever for dental pain but the DMSO enhances it’s effects!
DMSO enhances the effect of clove oil by helping it to increase skin permeability allowing the clove oil pain relief properties (especially Eugenol) to penetrate deeper into skin tissues. Here is a more detailed explanation I found through internet searching.
Enhanced Absorption: DMSO is known for its unique capacity to carry other substances through the skin and into underlying tissues. When combined with clove oil or dried cloves, DMSO helps deliver eugenol more effectively to the site of pain, such as muscles, nerves, or inflamed areas.
Synergistic Analgesic Action: Cloves have natural analgesic and anti-inflammatory properties due to eugenol. DMSO itself can block pain signals by slowing or inhibiting conduction in C-type nerve fibers, which transmit pain sensations. This dual mechanism—targeted delivery of eugenol + direct nerve blockade by DMSO—creates a more potent pain-relieving effect than either component alone.
Clinical Support: A randomized placebo-controlled trial using a topical solution with DMSO (15%) and plant terpenes (including eugenol from clove oil) showed 78.1% of patients experienced an 85% or greater reduction in pain within 10 days, demonstrating the therapeutic potential of this combination for conditions like plantar fasciitis.
As you can see there is a synergistic analgesic action when DMSO and clove oil are combined. I made my own version of this tincture based on information I found in this book on Amazon, I highly recommend it. Here is the recipe for my tooth pain tincture.
I break open the cloves using a soup can for a roller and wax paper over them so they didn’t stick to anything. Just put them on some wax paper and fold it over the top of them. (You could also use a paper towel if you don’t have wax paper). Then break them open using the soup can. You don’t need to crush them completely, they just need to be broken open so the oil can be absorbed. Next mix the distilled water and DMSO together in a glass jar.
Next I put the broken up cloves into the distilled water and DMSO mixture. Once the cloves are in the mixture put it aside for at least 24-48 hours. I prefer longer (3 -5 days) but if you need a batch in a hurry 24 hours is sufficient. This allows the clove oil to combine with the DMSO. You could use clove oil and skip the soaking part but I don’t have a good recipe for using that, I don’t have the ratios. If you prefer to try that go ahead just do your research first.
Last but not least use some cheesecloth to strain the cloves out of the mixture. You will lose a little bit of liquid in the cheesecloth but not much. Then I put the strained DMSO/Clove tincture into a 100ml glass bottle with a dropper. You can get the ones I use by clicking here.
As for using it, the method is straightforward. I take 1 drop at a time on my finger and I rub it on the gum line around the affected area. It only takes 4-5 drops depending on your pain level but wow does it work well! I’ve been relying on that instead of the big pharma pills like Tylenol for my relief as I know what that stuff does to your liver and it’s horrible. My guts can’t take ibuprofen so DMSO and cloves it is!
I need to throw up some disclaimers here as well. For some folks DMSO can be very unpleasant. Here is the disclaimer. While effective, DMSO can cause side effects such as garlic-like breath, skin irritation, and potential interactions with other medications. Always use high-purity (pharmaceutical-grade) DMSO and consult a healthcare provider before use.
I have personally been told about the garlic breath (seems to go away fairly quick for most) and the skin irritation but I have not heard about the interactions with other medications. As always check with a healthcare professional if you’re on medication as DMSO will enhance its effect and in some cases that could lead to a bad outcome. Dimethyl sulfoxide is the full name of DMSO. It is an organosulfur compound with the chemical formula (CH₃)₂SO.
That’s it for now, I just wanted to share something that works for me and hopefully it could work for you as well. I know from the chat some of you are going through major dental issues like myself and I feel your pain, literally.
Blessings to you all.
Johnny
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Take every thought captive. Have you ever wondered how you do that? I know I have and I’ve struggled with my thoughts over the years (still do) and we have to be proactive in capturing them and then REPLACING them with God’s word/truth. This is an excellent video and channel. I highly recommend subscribing to it.
From the video description.
In this video, we break down what it really means to “take every thought captive and make it obedient to Christ.” Most people treat this verse as spiritual warfare language only — but it’s more than that. It’s a practical, biblical framework for breaking mental strongholds and rewiring destructive thought patterns.
If you struggle with:
Repeating negative thoughts
Anxiety loops
Fear that keeps coming back
Internal arguments that won’t stop
This teaching will show you how Scripture and neuroscience align in a powerful way.
You’ll learn:
What “take every thought captive” actually means
How strongholds form in the mind
Why speaking truth interrupts mental loops
How to break negative thought patterns biblically
The connection between 2 Corinthians 10:5 and brain retraining
God didn’t just command renewal — He designed your brain to do it.
When you understand this verse correctly, you stop wrestling your thoughts and start training them.
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Will Trump order an attack on Iran? Will it be a “shock and awe” campaign or will it be limited in scope? Will Iran strike back and how hard? Nobody knows for sure but I shall give some analysis anyway based on reports I’ve seen from Israeli intelligence and other sources.
Also Trump signed an executive order to produce glyphosate here in the US again AND the order wants to INCREASE production. Health Impact News reports that not only did Trump issue an executive order to INCREASE the production of glyphosate, the current U.S. Farm bill is also seeking to give legal immunity to Bayer for harm caused by glyphosate. Legal immunity for harm caused…gee that sounds familiar doesn’t it? Can anyone say PREP ACT? I can! That’s the act that protects the murderers from prosecution and lawsuits due to harm caused by the COVID19 vaccines.
Kennedy is just as big of a liar as Trump. He helped sucker millions into the Trump campaign and now they’re angry. He told you he was a snake before you let him in.
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The U.S. government secretly pumped “mind control drugs” into millions of vaccines taken by members of the public, according to a newly leaked CIA document.
The U.S. government secretly pumped “mind control drugs” into millions of vaccines taken by members of the public, according to a newly leaked CIA document.
The seven-page document, “Special Research for Artichoke,” is dated April 23, 1952. It describes a series of ideas for how to develop chemicals designed to alter human behavior and thought.
Infowars.com reports: The proposals contained in the document were part of the CIA’s top-secret Project Artichoke, which ran from 1951 to 1956, according to The Daily Mail.
The document, declassified in 1983, recently circulated on social media. However, it was not published in the CIA’s online reading room until last year.
“Some of the suggestions are controversial,” the document states. The proposals included administering drugs in secret as part of a “long-range approach to subjects.”
According to the document:
“This study should include chemicals or drugs that can effectively be concealed in common items such as food, water, coca cola, beer, liquor, cigarettes, etc.
“This type of drug should also be capable of use in standard medical treatments such as vaccinations, shots, etc.”
CIA experimented on humans as part of Project Artichoke
The document also included a special field of research for “bacteria, plant cultures, fungi, poisons of various types, etc.,” that are “capable of producing illnesses which in turn would produce high fevers, delirium, etc.”
This included “species of the mushroom” that “produce a certain type of intoxication and mental derangement.”
Also among the proposals was a suggestion to research “diet” or “dietary deficiencies” on prisoners and on people undergoing interrogation, including using “specially canned foods having elements removed.”
The document included proposals for both short-term and long-term use on humans. Drugs deemed most suitable for long-term use would be designed to produce an “agitating effect (producing anxiety, nervousness, tension, etc.) or a depressing effect (creating a feeling of despondency, hopelessness, lethargy, etc.).”
According to The Daily Mail, the CIA experimented on humans as part of Project Artichoke. The experiments often involved “vulnerable subjects, including prisoners, military personnel and psychiatric patients.” The experiments were usually performed “without informed consent.”
According to Ben Tapper, a Nebraska chiropractor who was included in the “Disinformation Dozen” list in 2021 for questioning vaccine safety, the document exposes “a disturbing reality that government agencies have historically explored ways to manipulate human behavior through chemical and biological means, including concepts involving food and medical interventions.”
“This is not speculation or conspiracy, and it should deeply concern every American who values bodily autonomy and informed consent,” Tapper said.
Precursor to the CIA’s MK-Ultra mind control experiments?
The Daily Mail cited CIA documents suggesting that U.S. intelligence agencies were concerned that enemy nations had developed their own mind and behavioral control techniques. This led the agency to prioritize the development of its own methods.
Project Artichoke “served as a precursor” to the MK-Ultra program, which the CIA launched in 1953. That program “broadened mind-altering experiments on a larger scale,” The Daily Mail reported.
Many of the documents related to this type of experimentation were destroyed in 1973, “leaving the full extent of the research and how far it progressed unknown.”
Naomi Wolf, Ph.D., CEO of Daily Clout and author of “The Pfizer Papers: Pfizer’s Crimes Against Humanity,” told The Defender that the documents further confirm a long history of intelligence agency research targeting human thought and behavior.
“Sadly, it’s long been established that our intelligence agencies, and those of our enemies, have sought to alter human consciousness and behavior, often without the subjects’ consent. The existence of MK-Ultra, the clandestine project into which Project Artichoke evolved, is well documented,” Wolf said.
John Leake, vice president of the McCullough Foundation and author of the forthcoming book, “Mind Viruses: America’s Irrational Obsessions,” said, “Researchers have long suspected that the Church Committee‘s revelation of the CIA’s notorious MK-Ultra mind control experiments, mostly using LSD, had the effect of obscuring the agency’s much larger Project Artichoke.”
Leake cited evidence suggesting that a 1951 mass poisoning in Pont-Saint-Esprit, France, in which 250 residents experienced severe hallucinations and seven people died, was a Project Artichoke experiment. The outbreak was officially attributed to contaminated bread from a local bakery.
Leake said the 1952 document is “consistent with the suspicion that the CIA was seeking to discover mind control methods for even large populations.”
In 2024, a Reuters investigation revealed that the CIA operated a secret propaganda campaigninvolving vaccines in the Philippines. The campaign attacked what the agency perceived as China’s “growing influence” in the country by targeting the Chinese-made Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine through the use of phony online accounts spreading “anti-vax” messaging.
Michael Rectenwald, Ph.D., author of “The Great Reset and the Struggle for Liberty: Unraveling the Global Agenda,” said the Project Artichoke revelations “make it clear that the CIA has posed an enormous threat to U.S. citizens, in addition to the horrors it unleashes on non-U.S. target governments and populations.”
Project Artichoke wanted to enlist help from Army’s Chemical Warfare Service
The 1952 Project Artichoke document also included a recommendation to involve the U.S. Army Chemical Warfare Service in the project’s efforts, citing its experience with “exhaustive studies along these lines.”
This proposal bears a resemblance to recent suggestions that COVID-19 — and the response to the pandemic — were coordinated at high levels of government, military and intelligence agencies.
Last year, former pharmaceutical research and development executive Sasha Latypova and retired science writer Debbie Lerman released the “Covid Dossier,” presenting evidence of the “military/intelligence coordination of the Covid biodefense response in the US, UK, Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, Germany, and Italy.”
According to Latypova and Lerman, “Covid was not a public health event” but “a global operation, coordinated through public-private intelligence and military alliances and invoking laws designed for CBRN (chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear) weapons attacks.”
Leake said “it is far from clear” that the Church Committee hearings of 1975 “put a complete end to CIA covert programs.” He cited the possible laboratory development of the SARS-CoV-2 virus as an example.
Experts question similarities between Project Artichoke, COVID vaccines
In a Substack post today, epidemiologist Nicolas Hulscher drew a potential connection between Project Artichoke and the development of COVID-19 vaccines. Hulscher cited recent peer-reviewed studies that identified the vaccines’ adverse impact on neurological health and “surging rates of cognitive decline.”
Hulscher wrote:
“Disturbingly, since 2021, over 70% of humanity received a neurotoxic agent masquerading as a ‘vaccine.’ The same goals outlined in the CIA document (vaccines/drugs capable of covertly inducing anxiety, depression, and lethargy) are now being observed in COVID-19 vaccinated populations. …
“… If the CIA was secretly discussing covert methods to alter human behavior in the 1950s, it would be no surprise if similar classified projects emerged in the decades that followed.”
A 2024 paper published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry investigated psychiatric adverse events among over 2 million people in South Korea. The study found that “COVID-19 vaccination increased the risks of depression, anxiety, dissociative, stress-related, and somatoform disorders, and sleep disorders while reducing the risk of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.”
A 2025 study published in the International Journal of Innovative Research in Medical Science found “alarming safety signals regarding neuropsychiatric conditions following COVID-19 vaccination, compared to the influenza vaccinations and to all other vaccinations combined.”
This included increases in schizophrenia, depression, cognitive decline, delusions, violent behavior, suicidal thoughts and homicidal ideation.
“The fact that mRNA vaccines were designed to cross the blood-brain barrier and inflame the brain — or at least, they were known to do so, during their manufacture and distribution — should give us pause in light of this news,” Wolf said.
Wolf said the latest revelations, “while shocking, provide all the more reason for us to be critical of opaque, coercive or untested vaccination programs, additives in food and water, and toxic or opaque geoengineering programs.”
Tapper said the revelations reinforce “the urgent need to protect individual liberty, medical freedom, and ethical boundaries in science and public health.”
“The lesson here is simple: vigilance is necessary when governments claim authority over the human body and mind,” Tapper said.
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Immortality, Kurzweil’s Nanorobots in Human Blood, GoogleX Investment In Pill That Inserts Surveillance Nanoparticles and How Cheap It Is To Buy Scientists. This is the side of the Epstein files not many are covering.
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Guest Post by Colin Todhunter from Global Research. Reposted with permission.
Five years is a long time in the world of ‘independent’ media. Looking back from 2026, the issue of 2020–2022 wasn’t about a deadly virus. It was an economic lockdown and a pay-day bonanza for Epstein’s pal Bill Gates and his cronies in Big Pharma. But the period was also a stress test for the soul of the ‘alternative’ media.
Global Research is now the most censored news website in Canada (click the link for an excellent piece by Elizabeth Woodworth); from arguably being the top alt media site on the net (in terms of readership) pre-2017, it has lost most of its audience in the last six years. Of course, many failed the test, trading their so-called radicalism for the safety of the official narrative.
For many years, I was a consistent contributor to a couple of publications that branded themselves as sanctuaries for the counter-narrative. But as the 2020s took hold, the editorial stance shifted from critiquing state-corporate power to policing their own writers.
The transition was subtle. Work on ‘safe’ radical topics often in faraway lands was still welcomed. But anything that questioned the C-19 consensus was quietly shelved with no debate or engagement.
The breaking point for me came from a single quote. In one of my submissions, I had quoted Robert F Kennedy Jr, a prominent voice critical of Big Pharma and public health policies. At the time, he was the ultimate ‘heretic’. I received a vitriolic, unprofessional outburst from an editor who had quietly shelved all of my submitted pieces that had challenged the official narrative on the COVID event. The kind of tantrum one expects from a disgruntled teenager, not a supposed defender of free inquiry.
This is the tell-tale trait of gatekeeper hucksters. They trade on their apparent credibility, but the moment you quote the ‘wrong’ person or question the ‘correct’ narrative on public health, the mask slips. They refused to give space to challengers, aggressively policing the boundaries of acceptable discourse.
The upshot was that during that period, it became clear who was controlled opposition. Aside from the aforementioned outburst, others simply refused to respond to emails that asked why they would not publish anything by anyone that countered the official narrative. Some of the publications maintained the aesthetic of radicalism while enforcing establishment limits on the issues that mattered most.
We also saw it with celebrated ‘anti-empire’ bloggers—those who claim to dismantle the ‘narrative matrix’ every morning yet found themselves curiously silent or compliant when that same matrix deployed the most sweeping authoritarian measures in modern history.
These figures who rail against foreign wars but stayed quiet on quietly accepted domestic medical mandates, seemed more concerned about being censored, de-platformed and losing their income stream. They thundered about the empire abroad but accepted the bio-security empire at home.
The ‘alternative’ media didn’t just move; it split. One side chose the difficult path of consistent scepticism. The other chose to protect their brand.
Many of us remember those who held the line; from the editors of certain sites to the dozens of writers who accepted the cost of principled dissent. And we remember those who did not.
This critique isn’t a blanket attack on everyone who supported the narrative but a specific indictment of those who became aggressive enforcers of orthodoxy or who decided it was easier to just keep their heads down. ‘Radicalism’ is easy when it’s relatively safe or profitable, but true dissent carries a cost.
An ‘alternative’ or ‘independent’ media that collapses under pressure is not an alternative at all; it is merely a softer interface for the same system, translating authority into more palatable language while calling it resistance. In such cases, editors end up enforcing orthodoxy as zealously as any mainstream institution.
Another crisis will come. When it does, the same people will once again demand to be seen as dissidents. But the record already exists. They were tested and they failed.
Colin Todhunter’s new book India’s Farmers Against the Global Agri-Cartel: Chronicling Resistance to Corporate Enclosures can be downloaded for free at Zenodo.
