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America's Money: Debt crush
Americans deep in debt are struggling more than ever amid the credit crisis and economic downturn. http://money.cn n.com/galleries/2008/news/ 0805/gallery.real_people_d ebt/ Rising Prices Hit Home For... ...
UN: Food costs hitting world's poor
Food import costs to the world's poorest nations are set to rise by 40 per cent in 2008 on the previous year, a report by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) says. http://tinyurl.com/ 5txgx6 From... ...
GOING HUNGRY: WHY BIOFUELS ARE BAD FOR PEOPLE, PROSPERITY, AND THE PLANET
Quebecois Libre by Bradley Doucet 05/15/08 Divertin g crops like corn to ethanol refineries increases the demand for corn, which raises the price of corn. This in turn causes some farmers to shift fields... ...
You have perhaps a year, maybe two, before the riots start
With Contempt: An Open letter to Dianne Feinstein By Michael Piotrowski Mark my words: you have perhaps a year, maybe two, before the riots start. High gas prices, high food prices, incompetent disaster... ...
Manufacturing a food crisis
The Nation by Walden Bello 06/02/08 When tens of thousands of people staged demonstrations in Mexico last year to protest a 60 percent increase in the price of tortillas, many analysts pointed to biofuel... ...
Rice prices rising despite record world crop
Only Thailand, Pakistan and the United States, among leading exporters, are currently exporting rice without constraints. http://afric a.reuters.com/commodities/ news/usnL12164416.html?rpc =401& From... ...
In Food Price Crunch, More Americans Seek Help
Missy Ryan of Reuters reports: "While food inflation is causing tensions and riots around the world, even the affluent United States is being touched. Stories such as Stanley's are becoming more common... ...
Are we running out of food?
Ludwig von Mises Institute by Kel Kelly 05/06/08 First, the underlying cause of any shortage is the lack of a free market, since genuine shortages cannot appear in a free market. Instead, while prices... ...
Agrofuels Continue to Threaten Colombian Rainforests and Communities
ACTION ALERT UPDATE PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY! Agrofuels on Stolen Lands Continue to Threaten Colombian Rainforests and Communities By Ecological Internet, http://www.ecologicalinter net.org/ May 6, 2008... ...
Making a Killing From Hunger
From the April issue of GRAIN: "For some time now the rising cost of food all over the world has taken households, governments and the media by storm. The price of wheat has gone up by 130% over the last... ...