Netherlands: Farmers’ Revolt

Ewald Engelen BBB banner: “The voice of and for the countryside” Photo: Nathan Kramer CC4.0.. The shock among the Dutch chattering classes on 16 March was palpable. The right-populist Farmer–Citizen Movement (BBB) – established in 2019 by a small communications firm, bankrolled by the powerful Dutch agrifood complex and led by a former meat industry…

Netherlands Prime Minister Apologizes for Atlantic Slave Trade

Abayomi Azikiwe Netherlands Prime Minister Mark Rutte Apologizes For African Enslavement Africans say this is not enough calling for reparations Over the last few decades the demand to pay reparations for African enslavement has drawn support from around the world. Africans on the continent along with those living in other parts of the globe have…

Dutch Farmers Battle Technocratic Forces Driving Them into Oblivion

Nash Landesman Dutch farmers are in open struggle against a cartel of multinational corporations, Davos-aligned parties and NGO’s seeking control over the global food supply. “They are sweeping the culture from the land,” a farmer laments. HEERENVEEN, NETHERLANDS –– The Netherlands is a patchwork of quaint towns and cities interwoven with flat expanses of immaculately-kept green…

The Netherlands: Template for Ecomodernism’s Brave New World?

Colin Todhunter Farmers in the Netherlands protest. Disaster capitalism and crisis narratives are currently being used to manipulate popular sentiment and push through a set of unpalatable policies that would otherwise lack sufficient political support. These policies are being promoted by wealthy interests that stand to make billions of dollars from what is being proposed. They…

‘No Farms, No Food:’ Dutch Farmers Confront Billionaire ‘Green’ Elite’s Food System Reset Plan

Stavroula Pabst Dutch farmers’ protests offer a preview of the resistance to come as transnational “green” billionaires advance a “reset” of the global food system. The elite agenda threatens to deepen an international cost of living crisis and spark unrest well beyond The Netherlands. Ingrid de Sain is a Dutch farmer who lives in the Northern…