[THS] The Lords of Capital Decree Mass Death by Starvation

[Peter Webster]

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The Lords of Capital Decree Mass Death by Starvation

Having crushed the planet's peasants and converted food into just another
commodity for global manipulation, the Lord's of Capital have unleashed
upon humanity the threat - no, certainty - of mass starvation. The criminal
mega-enterprise is centered in the United States, the former "breadbasket
of the planet" whose massive conversion to biofuels has caused staple crop
prices to skyrocket beyond the reach of hundreds of millions of the world's
poor. The death of millions translates into profits in the trillions for the Lords
of Capital, killers on a mass scale whose only talents lie in "the production of
overlapping calamities, each more lethal than the last."

By Glen Ford

"No amount of emergency aid is sufficient to make up for the wild price
rises that have already occurred."

29/04/08 BAR" -- 16/04/08 -- - Fidel Castro called biofuels "genocide," and
he was right. And there can be no question as to the identity of the
perpetrators of this global genocide: the Lords of Capital that formulate the
foreign and domestic policy of the United States. That policy calls for 20
million acres of corn from states like Iowa to be converted from food to fuel.
As should have been expected, such a massive diversion almost immediately
pushed up the price of all other basic foodstuffs - a global disaster made
quick and easy by the fact that, over the past several decades, planetary
food production has been taken over by agribusiness - the speculative
human parasites that control how food is bought and sold, and to whom,
and for what purpose. These Lords of Capital are killers on a mass scale.

"Hot" money has totally distorted the "marketplace" for life-sustaining
goods, causing millions of the desperately poor in scores of countries to take
to the streets. "In less than a year," writes the Guardian newspaper, in
Britain, "the price of wheat has risen 130 per cent, soya by 87 per cent and
rice by 74 per cent."

These are nothing less than crimes against humanity, and cannot help but
destroy the lives of millions who are already at the very edge of the
precipice.

"The Lords of Capital have imposed a triage of death by starvation on the
planet."

 The so-called "market" - which is actually a club of super-rich men who
distort and destroy everything of value to humanity that they touch - will be
the death of us all, and much quicker than through the effects of global
warming, which is also greatly accelerated by the ghoulish, greedy rush to
grow food for cars rather than people. In such a murderous environment -
manipulated purely for the profits of the Lords of Capital - neither trees nor
peasants stand a chance. The United Nations  says it needs about half a
billion dollars for the most critical cases of starvation, but no amount of
emergency aid is sufficient to make up for the wild price rises that have
already occurred - and which will put trillions in the pockets of the Lords of
Capital.

Agribusiness wiped out small farmers in the U.S., and impoverished and
pushed off the land untold millions of peasants, worldwide. Now the Lords
of Capital have imposed a triage of death by starvation on the planet. The
people who live on two dollars or less per day will have to die, and then, as
prices rise, the three dollar people will follow.

The men who profit from such mass murder use terms like "structural
adjustment" and "economic fundamentals" to attach a veneer of rationality
to a chaotic system they have created on the fly for the sole purpose of
mega-theft. In the end, the Lords of Capital have mastered only one art:
the production of overlapping calamities, each more lethal than the last.
Soon, if not already, the Haitian poor will have no cooking oil to mix with
clay for their diet of dirt pies. The Lords of Capital will have turned them
into dirt for another Haitian's consumption and demise.

For Black Agenda Radio, I'm Glen Ford.

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