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When Zambia ran short of food in 2002, it appealed to the World Food Program (WFP) to help it gather food donations from richer countries. The U.S., as a member nation of the WFP, offered a large shipment of corn and maize to Zambia, which was gratefully accepted. However, when asked for a guarantee that the corn had not been genetically modified, the U.S. first refused to provide the information, and then finally admitted that the entire shipment was genetically modified. This corn was not only meant for food consumption, but was shipped as seeds to be planted by Zambian...
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...100th anniversary of the birth of Eric Blair, known to posterity as George Orwell, it seems appropriate to ask whether he got it wrong. In 1984 Orwell was worried about all-powerful governments, but these days multinational corporations are richer, scarier and more ruthless than many mere nation-states. Has Big Brother left public life for a more lucrative position in the private sector...
...more like the monthly phone bill than a debt payoff. If you are a low-wage earner with minimal possessions who rents, what do you lose with an invasion? But, if you own the worker’s apartment building, you lose proportionately more, and so on. Therefore, the richer you are, the more you have to lose, the more you always have invested in your police, your law courts, your government’s military and political alliances. Maintaining embassies and troops has little importance for the average low-wage worker, but is of perceived necessity to certain capitalists...
...means using methods that would have been unthinkable to their patriarch. At the same time, post-Freudian psychotherapists are figuring out that the old master still has something to offer the science of mental health: an understanding of the human mind and its many malfunctions that's richer, fuller and more exciting than anything invented since...