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Why the Food Market Will Be the Next Bubble to Burst

Ari LeVaux, AlterNet. September 23, 2011.

Private investment firms are betting on hunger, and their reasoning, unfortunately, is sound.

The Little-Known Story of How a Financial Crash that Began on Wall Street is Setting the Middle East on Fire

Danny Schechter, AlterNet. January 31, 2011.

Tens of thousands in the streets are being driven by an economic disaster that has sent unemployment skyrocketing and food prices climbing.

How Goldman Sachs Caused a 'Silent Mass Murder,' Gambling on Starvation in the Developing World

Johann Hari, Independent UK. July 2, 2010.

How Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, the traders at Merrill Lynch, and others caused the starvation of some of the poorest people in the world.

Riots Coming? Global Food Prices Going Way Up

Marion Nestle, December 31, 1969.


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