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    The Politics of Food is Politics

    http://www.armsmerchant.org/?p=652
    19 days ago in The Arms Merchant · Authority: 1

    DE CLARKE and STAN GOFF In recent days, we have seen the rising price of oil and the devaluation of the dollar create two quantum shifts in the economy: the beginning of the collapse of the air travel industry and a global crisis of food-price inflation. These are related in ways that are crucial to understand — because we are seeing the outlines of an historic opportunity to change the terms of theory and practice for a politics of resistance. As air carriers have gone bankrupt, the knock-on effects on travel agents, airports, airport-colocated hotels, “package” vacation resorts, etc. are considerable. Read the rest: Thomas Paine’s Corner 1b89