[Garda Ghista, January 1, 2010] - On Friday, November 21st, 2009, Jacques Diouf, chief of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, conducted a 24-hour strike cum fast in the lobby of the Rome-based United Nations FAO office to protest and draw attention to the plight of the world’s millions of hungry people.  He did this just prior to the United Nations Food Summit, and said that global food output will have to increase by 70 percent to feed 9.1 billion by 2050. Negotiations that took place over the next two days which showed a singular reluctant and noncommital stance by wealthy nations to feed the world’s poor by the proposed deadline of 2025. In fact, very few heads of state even bothered to attend the summit. Perhaps they see hunger as an unsolvable problem and up to a billion human beings as expendable on this populated planet. However, it is not unsolvable. With proper economic and ecological steps, the problem of hunger can certainly be relegated to the history museum. Let us explore the steps required to reach this noble goal, beginning with a perusal of what ecological economics is all about.
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(Bookreview) - Arundhati Roy is an unusual Indian woman. Instead of acting the graceful upholder of traditional values, she goes on challenging the hard core of establishment thinking. Roy is India’s leading commentator on such evils as militaristic imperialist capitalism, Hindu-supported genocide of Muslims, and dam disasters. In her latest book, Listening to Grasshoppers; Field Notes on Democracy, she hammers at perhaps the most central of all contemporary sacred pillars, i.e. that of democracy, which in her words “have metastasized into something dangerous”. Click to continue ...

By Garda Ghista

(Hyderbad, India Dec 10, 2009) - The Times of India on December 7 reported that Dalits in Gujarat are banned from Hindu temples. Yet, they are Hindu, isn’t it? If they are banned from their own Hindu temples, then why on earth should they remain Hindus? Better they become Buddhist, Christian or Muslim. Tragically, even by converting to one of these other religions, they remain Dalits. We have here in India such a thing as Dalit Christians and upper caste Christians. Is it not mad? If I tell this to friends back in America, their jaws will drop in disbelief. Click to read whole article ...

Children belonging to a sub-sect of Dalits barred from attending classes and partaking in a government-sponsored nutritious meal program in Therkupatti village in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, according to reports

(ProutWorld, Dec. 7, 2009) -The climate crisis is really part of a greater crisis which includes the financial crisis and the numerous political, social, cultural, existential crises that are now greatly troubling humanity. The greater crisis is the crisis of capitalism, which has reached a state of metastasis. It reproduces its disease everywhere. Capitalism is no longer able to do any good and it is only replicating its pattern of greed around the world and in every sphere. So it is time to exchange capitalism for a new and better economic system that will be both more conducive to humans and the environment and offer the prospects of greater progress and genuine development for all. Click to read the whole editorial ...

(New Delhi, 20. Nov., 2009) - In a presentation to the Global Prout Convention in the Indian capital, Dr. Susmit Kumar foresaw a total collapse of the American economy and a global economic tsunami. As a consequence of present global monetary and trade policies China will have $6 trillion in foreign exchange (FOREX) by 2015, up from $2.6 t today. By then China will exercise virtual control over US dollar and the entire world economy. Trailing China today is Japan with $1 t in FOREX (at a standstill for the last 10 years), Russia with about $500 b, and India with $350-400 b. Dr. Kumar argued that none of these will be a competitor for China in the global economy. This scenario spells doomsday for the present US and world economy. Dr. Kumar is the author of The Modernization Islam and the Creation of A Multipolar World Order and is the President of the Prout Institute of United States.

Debt: America and Europe Sink Deeper; India, China, Africa Less Burdened
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Global Prout Convention in Delhi, November 2009