Re: Info guerillas

[Dennis R Redmond <dredmond@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, Louis Proyect wrote:

> roots of wild plants." If you read most of the post-famine reports, you'd
> never guess that the desperate acts were a function of natural catastrophe
> mixed with economic isolation brought on by the collapse of the USSR and
> western sanctions.

The Cold War has been over for a decade now. Vietnam is now a net rice
exporter, Cuba has turned the corner and China continues to boom, while
North Korea clearly needs outside food aid. This suggests something
important about these respective governments, no?

-- Dennis