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The Food Crisis is Not About a Shortage of Food
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A Closer Look at Our Basic Needs in a Time of Crisis
Jon Letman, The Hawaii Independent: "Ours is a nation obsessed with security. Two months after the bitter sting of the 9/11 attacks, the federal government formed the Transportation Security Administration... ...
Third World America: 'Fast-Tracking to Anarchy'
By Janet Tavakoli Much of poor America, especially in our major cities, has been Third World America for decades. Soon the urban middle classes and even upper classes will become better acquainted with... ...
How Greed Begets Hunger
The heatwave, forest fires and drought in Russia and central Asia may be unprecedented in recent times. But there is something familiar about the ensuing food crisis, as the price of wheat remains 50%... ...
The Food Bubble: How Wall Street Starved Millions and Got Away With It
Democracy Now! In 2008, there were food riots in more than thirty countries. The global price of food rose over 80 percent. This had an effect not only on wheat, but on corn, on soy, on cooking oil,... ...
The Food Wars
Crucial analysis of how the West created the global food crisis. http://sonnenseite .kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d87416 89229ms214 Conscious choice of food can substantially mitigate climate change Reducing the... ...
Oil Well Blowout May Never End
By Washington's Blog The likelihood of a complete collapse is difficult to assess, in part, engineers and legislators say, because BP hasn't shared enough information to evaluate the situation. But a... ...
Scientist Awed by Size, Density of Undersea Oil Plume in Gulf
Vast underwater concentrations of oil sprawling for miles in the Gulf of Mexico from the damaged, crude-belching BP PLC well are unprecedented in "human history" and threaten to wreak havoc on marine life,... ...