Fannie, Freddie, Food and Fuel

Richard Mellor
AFSCME Local 444, retired
7-15-08
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FOOD CRISIS
Part Two: Capitalism, Agribusiness, and the Food Sovereignty Alternative

Ian Angus

"Nowhere in the world, in no act of genocide, in no war, are so many people killed per minute, per hour and per day as those who are killed by hunger and poverty on our planet."
-- Fidel Castro, 1998

April 24th 2008, by James Suggett - Venezuelanalysis.com

Mérida, April 24, 2008 (venezuelanalysis.com)-- Venezuelan President Hugo
Chávez convened an extraordinary meeting of member nations of the Bolivarian
Alternative for the Americas (ALBA) in Caracas early Wednesday morning to
discuss the world food crisis and the political crisis in eastern Bolivia.

Capitalism harms planet - Morales
by Laura Trevelyan
BBC UN correspondent, in New York

Bolivian President Evo Morales has told a UN forum that capitalism should be scrapped if the planet is to be saved from the effects of climate change.

"If we want to save our planet earth, we have a duty to put an end to the capitalist system," he said.

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