Thread: Global Poverty, Food Riots, and the Economic Crisis

Global Poverty, Food Riots, and the Economic Crisis

Excerpt from: "The Global Economic Crisis: The Great Depression of the XXI Century"



by Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research, January 25, 2011

As Tunisia's government collapsed under the protests of its citizens, in part spurred on by dramatically increasing food prices, with protests spreading to more countries in the region and around the world, this excerpt from the most recent publication by Global Research, "The Global Economic Crisis: The Great Depression of the XXI Century," provides an insight into the background of the current crisis:

The sugar-coated bullets of the “free marketâ€