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    Editor's Note: Actually, Col. Muammar Qadaffi discovered and developed what these scientists are talking about a long time before. "The Great Man-Made River Project" (GMMRP) was conceived in the 1960s and built in the 80s. Col. Qadaffi made Libya self-sufficient in food and clean water. Buried underground deep in the... » read this article
  • Beverly Darling. , Axis of Logic

    After listing a litany of major crises facing America, like the rise in unemployment and homelessness, predatory lending practices and the rapid increase in student debt and home foreclosures, forty-seven million people without health insurance and adequate healthcare while the government continues to fund tax-breaks for corporations and the wealthy,... » read this article
  • Jean Ziegler, Le Monde Diplomatique , Le Monde Diplomatique

    How to control global food commodity trading Financial speculators invested in food futures even before the great crash of 2008, driving up food prices to dangerous levels. This can and must be stopped. The asphalt road was straight and monotonous. Baobab trees passed one after the other, and the earth... » read this article
  • Chris Arsenault , Al Jazeera

    Editor's Commentary: Many Canadians like to pretend that we don't really have a problem with natives, they have a problem with us. But this article hits the nail squarely on the head - Canada has mistreated its native population since white people first arrived here (even if you leave aside... » read this article
  • Siv O'Neall. Axis of Logic , Axis of LOgic

    "Every five seconds, a child under 10 dies of hunger.  – Thirty-five million people die each year from hunger or its immediate aftermath. – One billion people are permanently and severely malnourished and the situation is becoming increasingly catastrophic." (Jean Ziegler)   In his latest book “Mass Destruction – the... » read this article
  • Michael Parenti , Youtube

    Editorial comment: It's NOT CAPITALISM that's the source of our high standard of living, says Michael Parenti in this fabulous video from 2007. Time to drag it out once again and then again and again. The Capitalists have done EVERYTHING IN THEIR POWER to stop the good life from spreading... » read this article
  • SAMUEL LOEWENBERG , The New York Times

    Editorial comment: "The right to food is a human right. It protects the right of all human beings to live in dignity, free from hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition. The right to food is not about charity, but about ensuring that all people have the capacity to feed themselves in... » read this article
  • Jean Ziegler and Siv O'Neall , La libre Belgique

    Interview with Jean Ziegler by Gilles Toussaint: Introduction and translation by Siv O'Neall Introduction The victims are the poor, the former subsistence farmers in Africa who have been deprived of their land and whose countries now have to import food at exorbitant prices, due to the speculation in agricultural commodities... » read this article
  • Frances Moore Lappé , The Nation

    Editor's Note: Frances Moore Lappé's essay below kicks off our forum on the food movement. Raj Patel, Vandana Shiva, Eric Schlosser, and Michael Pollan have contributed replies. For years I’ve been asked, “Since you wrote Diet for a Small Planet in 1971, have things gotten better or worse?” Hoping I don’t... » read this article
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    Les Blough (commentary)
    , Human Wrongs Watch. Axis of Logic

    South Sudan: Another Kitchen-Garden? Its was expected; nevertheless, the announcement that agricultural development will be among the top cooperation priorities between Israel and South Sudan has raised fresh, deep fears in Cairo and Khartoum that intensive farming techniques and dams construction will end up depriving Sudan and Egypt from a... » read this article
  • Interview with Vandana Shiva , cookingupastory - Youtube

    This 3-part series of interviews with Dr. Vandana Shiva about the future of food is one of the most contentious, revolutionary, profound, and important discussions of any, we have had to date on Food News. This is more than about the safety of biotechnology; its about the ability of all... » read this article
  • Sukant Chandan interviewed on RT , RT News

    Sukant Chandan gets it right - pointing his finger directly at Cameron.  The British Prime Minister has vowed that rioters will pay for what they've done, as he addressed Parliament in the wake of clashes that engulfed the country. What started as a peaceful protest against police shooting a man in... » read this article
  • Ken Livingstone , Labor List

    The first priority must be to restore calm and peace to Tottenham. This is vital for the safety and wellbeing of all Londoners. As Tottenham's Labour MP David Lammy has also said, justice can only follow a thorough investigation of the facts, but to understand those facts, we must have... » read this article
  • Jeffrey Gettleman , Truthout

    The Shabab Islamist insurgent group, which controls much of southern Somalia, is blocking starving people from fleeing the country and setting up a cantonment camp where it is imprisoning displaced people who were trying to escape Shabab territory. The group is widely blamed for causing a famine in Somalia by... » read this article
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