World-News

By William Blum

Food riots, in dozens of countries, in the 21st century. Is this what we envisioned during the post-World War Two, moon-landing 20th century as humankind's glorious future? It's not the end of the world, but you can almost see it from here.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19855.htm



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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120949327146453423.html

As food prices surge, so could Amazon destruction
http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/48169/story.htm


Informant: Teresa Binstock



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=grain+companies
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Unknown News
by Mahdi Abdul Finkelstein

04/27/08

Because governments no longer back their currencies with gold, increases in money supplies have resulted over the past several decades, which greatly exceed the growth in planetary production. Therefore, in the years following the implosion of the internet stock bubble and the real estate bubble, both of which had global reach, another bubble was “needed” by the “investors” managing the excess trillions of dollars...

http://www.unknownnews.org/080427a-Mahdi.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/04/29/8595/

Groups Begin to Tackle Hunger Crisis
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/04/29/8604/



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Making a killing from hunger
http://www.grain.org/2/?id=39


Informant: Teresa Binstock



http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=food+crisis

http://www.lewrockwell.com/snyder-joshua/snyder-joshua14.html



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Anthony Faiola reports for The Washington Post, "The food price shock now roiling world markets is destabilizing governments, igniting street riots and threatening to send a new wave of hunger rippling through the world's poorest nations."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042708B.shtml



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Agriculture is once again recognized as a strategic economic sector, Frederic Lemaitre argues in Le Monde. He details some of the ways rich and poor countries will need to change their policies and reorient their investments in consequence.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042508G.shtml



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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/04/25/8523/

NGO: Gov'ts Ignored Food Crisis Warnings for Years
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/04/26/8546/

World Leaders: stop the food crisis
http://www.avaaz.org/en/world_food_crisis/9.php?cl=83699574



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Anuradha Mittal writes for AlterNet, "Over the last few decades, the United States, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund have used their leverage to impose devastating policies on developing countries. By requiring countries to open up their agriculture market to giant multinational companies, by insisting that countries dismantle their marketing boards and by persuading them to specialize in exportable cash crops such as coffee, cocoa, cotton and even flowers, they have driven the poorest countries into a downward spiral."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/042508P.shtml

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Somali food riots enter second day
Belleville News-Democrat

05/07/08

Hundreds of youths hurled stones and blocked roads with blazing tires Tuesday in a second day of protests over soaring food prices that has frustrated residents already living in one of the world’s most dangerous war zones. Meanwhile, an international rights group accused Ethiopian troops of torturing and killing civilians in the Somali capital, Mogadishu. Ethiopia, whose troops are supporting Somalia’s shaky U.N.-backed government, denied the allegations...

http://www.bnd.com/news/world/story/332723.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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