By Eric Walberg
Food protests and riots have swept more than 20 countries in the past few months. On 2 April, World Bank President Robert Zoellick told a meeting in Washington that there are 33 countries where price hikes could cause widespread social unrest. The UN World Food Programme called the crisis the silent tsunami, with [...]

1. Energy crisis: Turning-point of humanity : By Rudo de Ruijter, Independent Researcher
2. Your Brain Lies to You : By Sam Wang and Sandra Aamodt, The NYT
3. Karzai is telling half-truth : By Jehangir Khattak, The Dawn
4. The grim dangers in FATA : By Rahimullah Yusufzai, The News
5. What Obama should say on Iraq [...]

By Jason Miller
Let’s face it, my fellow freedom and burger loving Americans. It is becoming painfully obvious that our non-negotiable American Way of Life is increasingly under attack. Yet while our meat consumption may be a wedge issue our foes are using against us, it can also be our salvation.
We are facing swarms of [...]

By James Petras
All the major international banks (IMF, World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, Asia Development Bank etc), all the major financial newspapers and mass media have been forced to recognize that there is a major food crisis, that hundreds of millions of people face hunger, malnutrition and outright starvation.

‘The world’s poor countries will spend [...]

By Simon Jenkins
You don’t have to be cynical to do foreign policy, but it helps. A sigh of relief rose over the west’s chancelleries on Monday as it became clear that the Chinese earthquake was big – big enough to trump Burma’s cyclone. To add to the relief, Beijing was behaving better than it [...]

by Pablo Ouziel*
We are very comfortable in the west, all of us.
We must learn to cut back on spending, organize ourselves as tax payers, and begin to demand disarmament from our governments, to pull them out of those apparently “unwanted” wars. Until then, the diamonds in our stores will be bloody, the food in [...]

An Alternative Agriculture is Possible
By DE CLARKE and STAN GOFF
In recent days, we have seen the rising price of oil and the devaluation of the dollar create two quantum shifts in the economy: the beginning of the collapse of the air travel industry and a global crisis of food-price inflation. These are related [...]