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Tag Archives: world food crisis
Capitalism’s violence, masses’ revolt show need for total view
The world today is riven between the creativity of masses in revolt and the violent degeneracy of counter-revolution, whose destructiveness even extends to the revived specter of nuclear war two decades after the collapse of the USSR. Such is the degeneracy of the globalized capitalist system, laden with destructive forces and sunk into structural crisis. The deep crisis is seen in the U.S. and abroad, economically, in unemployment and poverty, homelessness and hunger. It is seen politically, in new laws attacking workers and women, and new outbursts of racism. It is seen environmentally, with the advance of climate disruption and fake capitalistic solutions. It is seen in thought, as the lack of philosophy, of a total view, hampers the development of struggles from the U.S. to the revolutions of the Arab Spring facing counter-revolutions. Continue reading
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Yemen: famine, drones and freedom
From the new November-December 2012 issue of News & Letters World in View Yemen: famine, drones and freedom by Gerry Emmett Demands for freedom and dignity drove the Arab Spring. In Tunisia, in Tahrir Square in Egypt, in Daraa, Syria, … Continue reading
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Tagged Ahmed Ali Saleh, al Qaeda, Alaa Al-Eryani, Ali Abdullah Saleh, Arab spring, Change Square, Daraa, drone strikes, Heykal Bafana, Ibrahim al-Khatab, Middle East revolutions, Sana'a, Saudi Arabia, Shatha Al-Harazi, structural economic crisis of capitalism, Syria, Tahrir Square, The Uprising of Women in the Arab World, Tunisia Jasmine Revolution, war on terror, world food crisis, Yemen, Yemeni
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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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