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...best means of delivering sustenance to the human race as a whole. Patel opens the book with the epidemic of farmer suicides that have hit rural India, South Korea and the United States, depicting a grim picture of despair and debt, and conclusively dispelling the strangely persistent myth of farming as some sort of pastoral pleasure. He then argues that the past century's lowering of trade barriers and opening of agricultural markets, with the help of bodies like the WTO and the World Bank, have wrested control of the land and what grows on it from the hands...
...fund raiser in Atlanta with R&B recording star Usher. Afterward, Des Moines Register columnist David Yepsen wrote: "There wasn't a big winner of Thursday night's debate among the Democratic presidential candidates, but there was a clear loser--Barack Obama." At a rural-issues forum on a farm outside Adel, Iowa, Obama sympathized with the plight of farmers this way: "Anybody gone into Whole Foods lately and seen what they charge for arugula?" (That high-end grocery store chain doesn't have any locations in Iowa...
...salvador army led an attack on a cooperative farm that was run by natives and deemed subversive by rich landowners. One of countless atrocities committed during the country's 1980-92 civil war, it would have gone unnoticed if not for the protests of Adrian Esquino Lisco, spiritual chief of El Salvador's tiny indigenous community. As a government investigation stalled and dissolved, Lisco's outcry over the massacre--in which soldiers tied the hands of more than 70 farmworkers and shot each in the head--made international news. Lisco later worked with U.S. Congressmen to help bring about...
...real video for this song, but he’s been making eyes at indie kids and hipsters for a while, and so he hired two of them—comedian Zach Galifianakis and musician Will Oldham—to pick up a camera and goof off on a farm (tractors, rapping along, silly costumes, etc.). My mom called about a week ago to say that she had confused this middle school joke of a video for the real one, and that she thought someone as successful Kanye West would have put more money into it. I guess the irony...
...could ever bring all Rwanda's killers to justice. The stark facts of genocide - more than 800,000 killed, most with farm tools - suggest tens of thousands of murderers at least. But the ICTR fugitives were supposed to be different. They are not just murderers, ICTR prosecutors allege, but mass-murder masterminds: the former army officers and government officials who built a genocidal regime. "There cannot be true unity and reconciliation in Rwanda unless the fugitives, most of whom are the actual planners of the genocide, are brought to book," says Rwandan Justice Minister Tharcisse Karugarama...