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Rising Food Prices and the Egyptian Tinderbox: How Banks and Investors Are Starving the Third World By Ellen Brown
Underlying the sudden, volatile uprising in Egypt and Tunisia is a growing global crisis sparked by soaring food prices and unemployment. The Associated Press reports that roughly 40 percent of Egyptians struggle along at the World Bank-set poverty level of under $2 per day. Analysts estimate that food price inflation in Egypt is currently at… Continue reading
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The Crisis of Civilization – Trailer
The Crisis of Civilization is a documentary feature film investigating how global crises like ecological disaster, financial meltdown, dwindling oil reserves, terrorism and food shortages are converging symptoms of a single, failed global system. Continue reading
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Tunisia and the IMF’s Diktats: How Macro-Economic Policy Triggers Worldwide Poverty and Unemployment By Michel Chossudovsky
The role of Ben Ali’s government was to enforce the IMF’s deadly economic medicine, which over a period of more than twenty years has served to destabilize the national economy and impoverish the Tunisian population. Continue reading
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Tunisia and the IMF's Diktats: How Macro-Economic Policy Triggers Worldwide Poverty and Unemployment By Michel Chossudovsky
The role of Ben Ali’s government was to enforce the IMF’s deadly economic medicine, which over a period of more than twenty years has served to destabilize the national economy and impoverish the Tunisian population. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 19 January, 2011: Capitalism and the Duplicitous Meanings of Democracy
19 January, 2011 — Information Clearing House The CIA Taught Us Everything CIA-trained ‘Terrorist’ in US Court By Chris Arsenault Accused of killing 73 in an airline bombing, Luis Posada Carriles charged with immigration violations, not terrorism. www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27297.htm Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 5 January, 2011: US Cable Reveals Israel Deliberately Choked Gaza
5 January, 2011 — Information Clearing House The Culture of the Occupation By Layla Anwar Every time I attempt to write an overall picture of the Iraq of before and after, I need to take a break, a choking feeling grips me in my throat and the rage rises again, like some lava from a volcano… Continue reading
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William Blum: Anti-Empire Report, Number 88
One of the most common threads running through the Wikileaks papers is Washington’s manic obsession with Iran. In country after country the United States exerts unceasing pressure on the government to tighten the noose around Iran’s neck, to make the American sanctions as extensive and as painful as can be, to inflate the alleged Iranian… Continue reading
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Media Lens: Too Toxic to Handle? Follow-up Alert on Israel’s Policy of Near-Starvation for Gaza
On November 17, we sent out a media alert that highlighted the corporate media’s lack of interest in official documents revealing Israel’s deliberate policy of near-starvation for Gaza. We, and many of our readers, emailed broadcasters and newspapers asking why the release of these documents was not reported in October. Were journalists simply unaware of… Continue reading
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Media Lens: “Put the Palestinians on a Diet”
Israel has been forced to reveal what Palestinians and other observers on the ground have known for a long time: that the blockade of Gaza is state policy intended to inflict collective punishment, not to bolster Israeli “security”. Continue reading
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Beautiful mind, fucked up planet By William Bowles
Lovelock’s contention is simple, in fact so obvious it hardly needs debating: Life, the oceans, the atmosphere/climate and the land are all part of a single self-regulating system that Lovelock calls Gaia after the ancient Egyptian goddess of life. Life maintains the right balance through regulating the type and proportion of gases in our atmosphere,… Continue reading
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HLLN 22 March, 2010: Clinton apologizes for neoliberal policies that destroyed Haiti's rice production…| Haitian NGOs Decry Total Exclusion
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton – now U.N. special envoy to Haiti – … publicly apologized this month for championing policies that destroyed Haiti’s rice production. Clinton in the mid-1990s encouraged the impoverished country to dramatically cut tariffs on imported U.S. rice. Continue reading
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Child Slavery in Haiti By Stephen Lendman
In November 2009, PADF published a report titled, ‘Lost Childhoods in Haiti: Quantifying Child Trafficking, Restaveks & Victims of Violence.’ It’s a disturbing picture of ‘extremely poor children who are sent to other homes to work as unpaid domestic servants,’ and end up being beaten, sexually assaulted, and exploited by host families. Later, in their… Continue reading
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How World Bank policies led to famine in Haiti
Video, April 2008: Food riots in Haiti caused the deaths of five people last week, including a UN peacekeeper, and forced the country’s prime minister out of office. The country is “a place of terrible turmoil,” Raj Patel, of UC- Berkeley’s Center for African Studies, tells The Real News Network. Patel, author of Stuffed and… Continue reading
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Global hunger versus corporate profits By Simon Butler
Four companies control 60% of flour milling. Six control 85% of the world grain trade. Three control 80% of banana production and another three have 83% of the world’s cocoa sewn-up. Patel describes this as a global ‘food bottleneck.’ A small number of companies stand between millions of small farmers and millions of consumers in… Continue reading
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Afghans fear shortage in humanitarian aid – 25 Nov 2008
The Afghan government has warned foreign donors of a “huge humanitarian crisis” if they don’t respond rapidly to growing food shortages.Al Jazeera’s David Chater reports from the west of Afghanistan. http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Groupvideo.1796408 more about “Afghans fear shortage in humanitarian…“, posted with vodpod Continue reading
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Can a revolt of ‘consumers’ spark a revolution… By William Bowles
The power of big, transnational capital has transformed not only the economic landscape but also the nature of the way we live — from the food we eat (and where we buy it) to the fundamental fabric of our social spaces, and judging by the level of dissatisfaction with contemporary capitalist society, great swathes of… Continue reading
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Media Lens: Burma And The Making Of Iraq’s Ghost Towns
MEDIA LENS: Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media May 28, 2008 The Rules Of The Game The psychiatrist Harry Stack Sullivan once commented on “how suavely we simply ignore great bodies of experience, any clearly analysed instance of which might present us with a very real necessity for change.” (Quoted, Daniel Goleman,… Continue reading
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Media Lens: Somalia – Hidden Catastrophe Hidden Agenda
MEDIA LENS: Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media May 13, 2008 On May 1, the BBC website reported an attack on Somalia with the words: “Air raid kills Somali militants.†One might think the BBC’s headline would identify the agency responsible for the bombing, but the first few sentences also shed no… Continue reading
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Food – the ultimate weapon of the ruling elite By William Bowles
McNamara’s thinly veiled genocidal utterances took place over thirty years ago, echoing the wealthy and the privileged’s fear of the ‘great unwashed’ when ‘over-population’ was the buzzword. So not much has changed has it, we’re hearing the same, tired old messages being rolled out once again by the ruling elites and their spin doctors. McNamara’s… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 