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  • From: "John D'hondt" <dhondt@eircom.net>
  • To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing" <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] From Food Crisis to Food Sovereignty
  • Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 22:04:25 -0000

We are in complete agreement Pego. Not that important in the grand sheme of things but I am fairly certain that Britain is so supportive of US war efforts in Iraq for instance is to make sure of their piece of the oil pie. Before this second war of terror there were French oil companies in Iraq now replaced by all American companies and the French villified for a while as unsupportive to a good cause...
I am a Belgian native so I know a little about the old Congo now Zaire where a big Belgian mining company during Mobutu's reign (Union Miniere) was replaced by an American mining concern under Kabila. The Belgians used of course the same techniques in the 1950's when they got rid of Kasavubu and Lumumba to put Mobutu on the trone there. People die, sometimes in great numbers for this economic imperialism.
john
I dunno about Europe or Britain but the US has fielded troops nearly 300 times in the last 200 years to "assist" trade.  Not very free, that trade, and it is certainly unsustainable, but I do tend to classify it as economic imperializm.  After all, if you need a gun to make your trade it is not a fair exchange.  100% agreement that it is ruinous to ecology.
 
Yours, Pego
 
<<< again I basically agree with this Pego but I am afraid I look more to the ecological impacts of even "fair trade". Many countries export food or timber for money. What they don't realise is that by doing that they export their mineral supplies which will never be replenished.  Eventually massive global trade will prove to be completely unsustainable and the "sellers" will end up severely impoverished. You don't need imperialism to create ecological problems.>>       John >>



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