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Tag Archives: Famine
Paths of destruction
From the May-June 2012 issue of News & Letters: Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 2012-2013 (continued from Part II) III. Paths of destruction A. From war to war to war War is one of the rulers’ most potent counter-revolutionary weapons when … Continue reading
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Tagged 15M, Afghanistan, Anatole France, anti-war movement, Arab spring, Black, China, climate change, climate chaos, European debt crisis, eviction, Famine, foreclosure, global warming, Golden Dawn, Great Recession, Greece, homelessness, indignados, Iran, Iraq, Iraq war, Israel, Latino, M15, Memphis, NATO, Occupy Movement, Occupy Wall Street, Pentagon, Puerta del Sol, racism, San Francisco, Senegal, Somalia, Spain, structural economic crisis of capitalism, Tahrir Square, Taliban, United States, war, Zimbabwe
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Kim dynasty drags on
From the January-February 2012 issue of News & Letters: World in View Kim dynasty drags on by Gerry Emmett The body of late North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il will be placed on display in Pyongyang, beside that of his father … Continue reading
Somalia famine, climate and capitalism
From the new September-October 2011 issue of News & Letters: Somalia famine, climate and capitalism The famine in the Horn of Africa is finally getting attention, though it has been years in the making, now that shocking pictures of starving … Continue reading
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Tagged African Union, Al-Shabaab, Black Hawk Down, climate change, Dadaab, Danziger Bridge, Ethiopia, Famine, global warming, Horn of Africa, Human Rights Watch, Hurricane Katrina, Jeremy Scahill, jingoism, Kenya, Mogadishu secret prison, race, racism, secret rendition, Somali National Security Agency, Somalia, torture by proxy, Transitional Federal Government, Uganda, United States
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World in View: Famine in North Korea
From the March-April 2011 issue of News & Letters: World in View: Famine in North Korea by Gerry Emmett North Korea is approaching another famine with reports of 50% to 80% of the barley and wheat harvest wiped out by … Continue reading
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Tagged Aid, Asia, Famine, food, grain, Kim Jong-il, Korea, Malnutrition, North Korea, North Koreans, United States
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World food crisis, still
The world food crisis, which was hot in 2008 and then subsided temporarily, is getting worse again. It was one of the factors in Tunisia’s revolution, along with recent revolts in Algeria. The piece below, published in the June-July 2008 … Continue reading
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Tagged 2007–2008 world food price crisis, Africa, Ban Ki-moon, biofuels, capitalism, climate change, commodities futures, Economic, ecosocialism, environment, Famine, FAO, Food and Agriculture Organization, food crisis, food sovereignty, global warming, Haiti, International Monetary Fund, Karl Marx, Marxism, Mexico, peasants, revolution, Socialism, speculation, Terra Preta, Third World, United Nations, United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, United States, Via Campesina, world food crisis
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