Tuesday, June 11, 2013

The G8′s great land-grab

Click here to access article by Nick Jacobs from EUobserver.

The author explains how the one of the latest Orwellian-named projects put together by the G8 called "New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition" is anything but. Once again, we see our neo-liberal masters branding their theft of property under a benign, even humanitarian sounding name. But, as the writer explains, it is all about theft.
What is striking is how brazen and unapologetic the New Alliance is in its quest to open up African farmland – memorably described by the World Bank as the ‘last frontier’ for multinationals – to an unprecedented wave of industrial-scale investment.