[Marxism] Fill 'er up!

["Eli Stephens" <elishastephens@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Fidel Castro's first major return to the political scene since last July 
received a lot of press, much of it misleading. Most of the headlines were 
like this one from BBC: "Castro hits out at US biofuel use," and proceeded 
to make this claim: "He said George W Bush's support for the use of food 
crops in fuel production would cause 3bn deaths from hunger."

But that's not what the article says at all. Read the headline from Granma 
carefully:

   More than three billion people in the world condemned
          to premature death from hunger and thirst

See that last word in the headline - thirst? That's there because this 
article isn't just about biofuels, although it starts there, but about the 
entire environmental situation facing the world, described by Fidel thusly:

   "Some people will be asking themselves why I am talking of
   hunger and thirst. My response to that: it is not about the
   other side of the coin, but about several sides of something
   else, like a die with six sides, or a polyhedron with many more
   sides."

Complete article:
http://lefti.blogspot.com/2007_04_01_lefti_archive.html#117561554558757041


Eli Stephens
 Left I on the News
 http://lefti.blogspot.com

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