Re: Feeding People

[John <jsdwd@ksc.th.com>]

on 8/31/01 10:11 PM, Larry R. Shapiro at larryrshapiro@hotmail.com wrote:


> 
> My take on the majority of poverty and starvation in the world today, has
> been that hunger particularly, is a policy decision by domestic (their
> domestic not U.S.) political powers. Mao's familiar Power from the end of a
> gun being the included in those political powers. The indigenous political
> powers decide what keeps themselves rich and in  power. Generally, this
> seems to be keeping the rest of their population destitute enough to
> passively accept their rule, and has very little to do with the IMF or world
> bank or US policy (greed if you like) except as it is manipulated to the
> benefit of that country's ruling class.

I suggest reading Thomas Friedman's "The Lexus and the Olive Tree" and you
can find evidence that this is changing.