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- Subject: The Real Causes of Famine
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- Title: THE REAL CAUSE OF FAMINE
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- Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit
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- The Real Cause of Famine
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- According to the Funk and Wagnell Encyclopedia, the economy of
- Somalia is based primarily on livestock and agriculture. In 1970,
- there were an estimated 6 million goats, 4 million sheep, 3
- million cattle and 3 million camels. Somalia has two great bodies
- of water--Jaba and Waba--which serve 2 million people. Up until
- the ouster of the Siad Barre regime in 1991, two-thirds of
- Somalia's exports were livestock and meat.
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- These factors do not add up to starvation. The famine in Somalia
- is imperialist-made, and Bush and the U.S. government are the
- main cooks. Bush's role in the destabilization of the Somalian
- economy goes back to 1970, when he was the CIA director. The
- Pentagon pumped $856 million in weapons into Somalia to wage war
- against Ethiopia. This was coupled with an International Monetary
- Fund austerity program.
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- This is the root cause of the famine in Somalia. The billions of
- dollars being spent by the U.S.-European occupying forces could
- well feed and build an infrastructure in a country like Somalia.
-
- --Johnnie Stevens
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