Betting on famine why the world still goes hungry
From 2000 to 2008 Jean Ziegler was the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food. Formerly a member of the Swiss Parliament, Ziegler is the author of numerous books, including The Swiss, the Gold and the Dead, which details the role of Swiss banks in illegally holding the dormant bank accounts of Jewish victims of the Holocaust. He lives in Switzerland. Christopher Caines is the translator of World War II: The Unseen Visual History (The New Press). His original essays have appeared in several periodicals; scholarly reference works; and anthologies, including Reading Dance. Caines lives in New
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""Part V: The Vultures of “Green Gold�""""22: A Great Lie""; ""23: Barack Obama�s Obsession""; ""24: The Curse of Sugarcane""; ""Postscript: Hell in Gujarat""; ""25: Criminal Recolonization""; ""Part VI: The Speculators""; ""26: The “Tiger Sharks�""; ""27: Geneva, World Capital of Agri-Food Speculators""; ""28: Land Grabs and the Resistance of the Damned""; ""29: The Complicity of the Western States""; ""Epilogue""; ""Notes""
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