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.
Michel ChossudovskyHumanity 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.
Michel ChossudovskyBoth Hindu, as well as Islamic fundamentalism, feed on the poverty of the masses.
Michel ChossudovskyRelentlessly feeding on poverty and economic dislocation, a New World Order was taking shape.
Michel ChossudovskyGlobal poverty is an "input" on the supply side; the global economic system feeds on cheap labor.
Michel ChossudovskyThe achievements of past struggles and the aspirations of an entire nation are [being] undone and erased.... No Agent Orange or steel pellet bombs, no napalm, no toxic chemicals: a new phase of economic and social (rather than' physical) destruction has unfolded. The seemingly neutral and scientific tools of macro-economic policy constitute a non-violent instrument of recolonization and impoverishment.
Michel Chossudovsky