[lbo-talk] The BRICs Throw the Periphery a Lifeline

Shane Mage shmage at pipeline.com
Tue Jun 16 13:54:06 PDT 2009


On Jun 16, 2009, at 4:21 PM, dredmond at efn.org wrote:


> This little news item will receive zero attention in the Anglophone
> mainstream media, but heralds titanic change:
>
> http://www.kremlin.ru/eng/text/docs/2009/06/217964.shtml
> "BRICS' Joint Statement on Global Food Security"
>
> Note especially clauses (b) and (f).

Not a word about deforesting and plowing up cropland to produce "bioethanol"--massive contributions to global food insecurity-- pernicious activities in which Brazil leads the world. So much for "titanic" change!

Shane Mage


> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
>
> Herakleitos of Ephesos



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