"If people want more courage and inspiration to fight the Monsantos and the Cargills, to deal with the corporations, to deal with the GMO's, to deal with the economic slowdown, I think coming to India and seeing what is happening will give you renewed confidence."

- Dr. Vanana Shiva

CNN continuously promotes itself as "The Network that Goes Beyond Borders." They sell programs like the "CNN Freedom Project" in which they expose "Modern Day Slavery" (with particular emphasis on human slavery when it exists among enemies of western countries). Other CNN programs like "Inside Africa" and "Inside the Middle East" expose poverty and "terrorism," respectively. All these programs are shot through with heart-rending stories of people suffering, replete with music that moves the emotions and a message that moves the mind - of the viewer. Meanwhile, the same multi-billion dollar media funded by George Soros supports the US/NATO wars and occupations against Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and continues to push for war on Iran and Syria, villainizing the enemies of western governments.

Christiane Amanpour is anchor of ABC News' This Week and formerly chief international correspondent at CNN. She is also a Board Member at the IWMF (International Women's Media Foundation). When working for CNN (1992-2010) she was a well known reporter who gained fame and fortune as an advocate for people in deep poverty and especially for women who suffer under the oppression of Islamic states. Amanpour is an Iranian by birth, and is "married to James Rubin, a former Assistant Secretary of State and spokesman for the US State Department during the Clinton administration and currently an informal adviser to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama."

Wikipedia describes her early background thus:

"Amanpour was born to her Iranian father Mohammad, an airline executive, and her British mother, Patricia. In Iran, the Amanpour family led a privileged life under the government of the Shah of Iran. Amanpour completed her primary education in Iran, and at the age of 11, she was sent by her parents to boarding school in England."

Buy or borrow "All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror"

In 2000 Amanpour's annual salary was $2 million. Ten years later, in March 2010, the New York Post reported that Amanpour's annual salary in her new position at ABC is $2 million at a time when ABC cut 400 jobs ... "Staffers were bitter." Brent Baker, writing for Ad Busters said ABC passed over "many qualified ABC journalists in favor of replacing a Bill Clinton operative with the wife of an operative for both Bill and Hillary Clinton." Amanpour recently told Hillary Clinton “a lot of the women that I meet from traveling overseas are very impressed by you and admire your dignity.” In any case her actual salary today is unknown as an ABC news spokesman refused to comment on her salary at her new position at ABC.

Amanpour has a BA degree in journalism from the University of Rhode Island and began working as graphics designer at WJAR-TV in Providence. Her net wealth is $12.5 million.

Dr. Vandana Shiva is a powerful Indian woman who has been getting "a little bit out of hand." Dr. Shiva blames the tens of thousands of suicides of Indian farmers on the effects of globalization. She won the Sydney Peace Prize and authored more than 20 books - books like, Manifesto on the Future of Seeds and Soil Not Oil. Her website, "Reconnecting Farmers, Society and the Earth" carries the following articles on the front page: Forests and Freedom, Nuclear Insanity, Navdanya International opens new offices in Florence, Italy, Vandana Shiva: Understanding the Corporate Takeover, The Great Seed Robbery and Navdanya* Spearheads the Lawsuit Against Monsanto.

*Note: Dr. Vandana Shiva is one of the founders of Navdanya, an Indian-based NGO which promotes biodiversity conservation, biodiversity, organic farming, the rights of farmers, and the process of seed saving.

Of Monsanto's genetically engineered seeds,Vandana states,

“That’s not creation, that’s pollution. Instead of rewarding them with a patent, they should be punished for polluting our food chain.”

Here is part of Dr. Vandana Shiva's biography on Wikipedia:

Vandana Shiva is Hindi from Dehra Dun, Uttarakhand, India. She is a philosopher, environmental activist, and eco feminist. She is currently based in Delhi and has authored more than 20 books and over 500 papers in leading scientific and technical journals. She was trained as a physicist and received her Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Western Ontario, Canada, in 1978 with the doctoral dissertation "Hidden variables and locality in quantum theory." She is one of the leaders and a board member of the International Forum on Globalization and a figure of the global solidarity movement known as the alter-globalization movement. She has argued for the wisdom of many traditional practices, as is evident from her interview in the book Vedic Ecology that draws upon India's Vedic heritage. She is a member of the scientific committee of the Fundacion IDEAS, Spain's Socialist Party's think tank. She was awarded the Right Livelihood Award in 1993.

Here is Vandana on Monsanto:

In the 2010 article that follows, George Lerner reports on Christiane Amanpour's interview of Dr. Vandana Shiva, calling her "an activist" ... hmm. CNN runs a highly sophisticated shell game, mixing truth with error - with a imperial agenda. Christiane Amanpour provides a clever defense of corporate control of seeds in India against charges made by Dr. Shiva. It's also CNN, the "Network That Goes Beyond Borders" promoting and defending corporations like Monsanto and the concept of Globalization - and it's important to remember that it is still only a concept that has not reached fruition because of people like Dr. Vandana Shiva, us ... and you.

Thousands of poor farmers in India have committed suicide over the past decade as changes in India's agricultural policy set off a widening spiral of debt and despair, one environmental activist said Tuesday.

"The farmer suicides started in 1997. That's when the corporate seed control started," Vandana Shiva told CNN's Christiane Amanpour. "And it's directly related to indebtedness, and indebtedness created by two factors linked to globalization."

For Shiva, who works with farming communities across India, those two factors were the ceding of control of the seed supply to the corporate chemical industry -- leading to increased production costs for already-struggling farmers -- as well as falling food prices in a global agricultural economy.

An estimated 200,000 farmers have taken their own lives in India over the past 13 years, according to Indian government statistics.

"The combination is unpayable debt, and it's the day the farmer is going to lose his land for chemicals and seeds, that is the day the farmer drinks pesticide," Shiva said. "And it's totally related to a negative economy, of an agriculture that costs more in production than the farmer can ever earn."

But Columbia University Economics Professor Jagdish Bhagwati, a former adviser to the Indian government, said that globalization was not responsible for the surge of suicides among cotton farmers in the Indian states of Maharastra and Andhra Pradesh.

"There are other states in India where cotton seeds have been absorbed and which are really prosperous. So you have to ask, why is it that these are breaking out?" he asked. "What's happening is very much like the subprime mortgages in the United States, where a whole bunch of salesmen went out and sold mortgages to people who couldn't afford them."

Source: CNN