Food as a Weapon: Colonial Impact on AgroEconomy
In Why Can’t People Feed Themselves?, Frances Moore Lappe and Joseph Collins reveal that the majority of cultures have been disrupted and regressed by imperialistic colonialism, resulting in retarded agroeconomy and a scarcity of foodstuffs.
Handfuls of cultures have created abundance and material wealth through exploitation of agriculture, but it was often at the expense of colonies whose resources were vampirized by giant, imperial, blue-blooded squids. It isn’t the attitude or the culture’s mentality that is preventing them from agrarian stability- it was the purposeful exploitation of the indigenous peoples under the yoke of colonial overlords.
How else have the Market and Industrial Revolutions impacted the now-third world?
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Religion and Science: Spirituality on the way to Globalization
Progressive spirituality is related to a burgeoning liberalization of global economy, but it is a concept of spirituality markedly different from the old Gods.
Is the rise of Liberal Globalization fueling Global Spirituality- or vice versa?
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(Video) Bill Moyers and Vandana Shiva on Monsanto and the Problem with GMO Seeds
The 10 Best Reasons to Legalize Hemp
Why is this still illegal? Why do we buy our hemp from canada and china?
America’s industrial ban on hemp is “a poster child for dumb regulation,” argues lazy ass pothead! Wait, sorry, scratch that. Make that Senator Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, introducing an amendment last week to the densely contested 2012 Farm Bill, which is either a subsidies and sustainability savior or callous food austerity, depending on who you ask. But if you ask Wyden, “the best possible Farm Bill” is one that repeals a ban on industrial hemp the United States is already quite busy, and expensively, importing from the few feet it takes to cross the Canadian border.
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Why Your View of God Shapes Your View of the Economy
Do you see the economy as fatalistically determined by god? 31% of americans seem to….
Economic perspectives are tied to religious cosmologies. Voters see their money, the market, and the economy as a reflection of their God.
Why Your View of God Shapes Your View of the Economy
The .0000063 Percent Election: How the Politics of the Super Rich Became American Politics
‘At a time when it’s become a cliché to say that Occupy Wall Street has changed the nation’s political conversation — drawing long overdue attention to the struggles of the 99% — electoral politics and the 2012 presidential election have become almost exclusively defined by the 1%. Or, to be more precise, the .0000063%. Those are the 196 individual donors who have provided nearly 80% of the money raised by super PACs in 2011 by giving $100,000 or more each.’
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