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Using the resources Special Projects: Mark Burdman Book Editor: Katherine Notley of an expanded data base, and the LaRouche-Riemann Method of Advertising Director: Marsha Freeman analysis of the physical economy, we are now able to show, as never Circulation Manager: Stanley Ezrol before, what is really going on in the economies of nations-contrary INTELLIGENCE DIRECTORS: Agriculture: Marcia Merry to the financial statistics and other hocus pocus that Nobel Prize­ Asia and Africa: Linda de Hoyos winning economists and other quacks take as their point of departure. Counterintelligence: Jeffrey Steinberg, Paul Goldstein In this "maiden voyage," our team of economists analyzes the Economics: Christopher White world crisis in food production and consumption, demonstrating European Economics: William Engdahl Ibero-America: Robyn Quijano, Dennis Small that the shortage we currently face is the result of a deliberate and Law: Edward Spannaus avoidable policy by the British-dominated international food cartels. Russia and Eastern Europe: Rachel Douglas, Konstantin George Currently in production is a for our first issue of United States: Kathleen Klenetsky Special Report which will present a broader picture of the worldwide econom­ 1996, INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS: ic collapse, proving that unless the financial system is put through Bangkok: Pakdee Tanapura, Sophie Tanapura Bogota: Jose Restrepo bankruptcy reorganization, civilization is not going to survive. 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Single issue-$l0 Postmaster: Send all address changes to EIR. P.O. Box 17390. Washington, D.C. 20041-0390. TIillContents Special Report Book Reviews Departments Dirty U.S. military Editorial 67 72 networks implicated in An end to kings, queens, and King assassination oligarchs. Orders to Kill: The Truth Behind the Murder of Martin Luther King. by William F. Pepper. Photo and graphic credits: Cover, Daily Globe, Worthington, Minn.lBrian Korthals The transportation network required to move grain page 4, USDA. Pages 15, 31, 57, has broken down, with the result that millions of EIRNS/Stuart Lewis. Pages 6-14, bushels are rotting on the ground. This is no "natural 17-23, EIRNS/John Sigerson. disaster," but the result of strategic policies taken by the commodity cartels, mostly centered in London. Who is responsible for the 4 world food shortage The grain transport breakdown is but one recent example of breakdown in the food supply in what is considered the most food­ secure nation in the world, and i\1ustrates the fact that "natural disasters"-bad weather, floods, droughts-are not the cause of the world's food crises. World food shortage 6 follows imposed import­ dependency By John Hoefle and Marcia Merry Baker. Kissinger's plan for 15 1974 food control genocide The infamous NSSM 200 revisited. The Windsors' global food 16 cartel: instrument for starvation Control by the food cartel 25 companies: profiles and histories The cartel 'experts' decide 31 who e�ts Profilesof Lester Brown and Dennis A very . Volume 22. Number 49. December8. 1995 Economics International National 34 New banking crisis is set to Mexico's free-trade 60 Clinton trip marks death 42 rock France 'miracle' is based on dope knell of British Empire Two processes-social chaos and a and looting The President's visit to England. financialblowou t-are intersecting The truth about one of the most NorthernIreland. and the Irish to create one of the most unstable favored "Bush babies," former Republic. was one of the most political and financial conditions in Mexican President Carlos Salinas important events in his Presidency. the industrial world. potentially de Gortari. is finallycoming out in rivaling the ongoing Japanese public. and the ramificationsgo far, 62 Republicans respond to crisis. far beyond Mexico. Bosnia accord 36 Currency Rates The fall of the House of 44 63 Newt's freshmen are Windsor is on 'gangsta reps' 37 Brazilian government The sleaze factor in the makes a death pact with the 46 Euromed in Barcelona: Congressional Cloakroom: the case banks noble ends, but can 'free of Enid Waldholtz. trade' attain them? 39 Australia becomes a A conference report by Muriel 65 Emergency call goes out to colonial quarry Mirak -Weissbach. stop Newt Afghansis draw blood in 40 Business Briefs 48 66 Black leaders demand war against Pakistan hearings on DOJ abuse 50 Colombia: Samper must 70 National News go, for democracy to survive Documentation: Death threats escalate vs. EIR in Colombia: a chronology. 53 Narco-terrorists behind Brazil Raytheon scandal 54 Dialogue sets Haiti trap for Clinton 56 Presidential election in Poland: shock therapy now from the left 58 International Intelligence �� Special Report Who is responsible for the world food shortage by Marcia Meny Baker �s week's cover photograph, showing grain piled on the �ground, out in the open, near grain storage elevators, is representa­ tive of the disintegration of the food supply system the world over. While the U.S. Midwest com and soybean harvests were coming in this fall, the U.S. rail freight system broke down. After years of financial mergers, asset stripping, and rail track removal, such companies as Union Pacific, which are considered to be financial "suc­ cesses," failed miserably on the eco­ nomic front, and could not even sup­ ply engines to move the grain cars. Millions of bushels of grain are sit­ ting, rotting on the ground. This grain transport breakdown is but one recent example of break­ down in the food supply in what is considered the most food-secure nation in the world, and illustrates the fact that "natural disasters"-bad weather, floods, droughts-are not the cause of the world's food crises. These examples, and equivalent situ­ The food cartel firms own much of the shipping capacity, barges, grain elevator storage, and other infrastructure, giving it chokepoint control over the food chain, and greater capabilities than most ations all around the world, are governments. Shown here: a railroad yard in New Orleans. "unnatural" disasters, caused by years of takedown of agriculture infrastructure under wrong policies Dozens of nations, oncy self-sufficient in many food staples, and assumptions, in particular, serv­ ing the interests of private financial have been forced into food import dependency over the past and commoditIes control circles, cen­ 30 years. And now, neither the food stocks, nor the financing, tered mostly in London. The worldwide food crisis is mea­ exists for their food supplies.
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