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Originally Posted by roachboy
agricultural subsidies, structural adjustment, the cycle of extreme debt affecting many many countires in the southern hemisphere:
three phases of the same object, the same process--the maintenance of the american system by dumping the overproduction generated by centralized monocropping agricultural practices on the rest of the world.
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I once heard a decent argument about how U.S. farm subsidies lead to terrorism. Seriously. Because cheap food drives farmers out of business, it creates a pool of unemployed individuals who have nothing better to do and even less to do. Except die for thier fundamentalism, that is.