Modern capitalism appears totally incapable of mobilizing these untapped human and resources.

Lost in the barrage of images and self-serving analysis are the economic and social causes of the conflict.

Legal and illegal activities had become inextricably intertwined.

Both Hindu, as well as Islamic fundamentalism, feed on the poverty of the masses.

Humanity is undergoing, in the post-Cold War era, an economic and social crisis of unprecedented scale leading to the rapid impoverishment of large sectors of the world population.

The Cayman Islands, a British Crown colony in the Caribbean, for instance, is the fifth largest banking center in the world.

The experience of Somalia shows that famine in the late 20th century is not a consequence of a shortage of food. On the contrary, famines are spurred on as result of a global oversupply of grain staples.