May 12, 2008--Fronted by Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling, with the aid of the Financial Times, the British Empire today launched a new salvo against civilization. Darling, the paper reported, "will urge fellow European Union finance ministers to support the dismantling of the CAP [Common Agricultural Policy], saying it is costing EU consumers billions of pounds a year in higher food bills, while hurting farmers in the developing world." In a "strongly worded" letter to EU finance ministers, Darling said current EU farm policies are "unacceptable," and called for scrapping EU food tariffs and subsidies. "The Chancellor says `efficient international markets' -- not protectionism -- are the best way to maintain global and European food security, and that a successful conclusion of the Doha Round of [WTO] world trade talks is vital.... He will press the case for CAP reform in Brussels this week in what will be a rare appearance by the chancellor at the Ecofin council," the FT said.
More explicit in pushing this genocidal horror was FT contributor Willem Buiter of the London School of Economics, who wrote that "Food security is best safeguarded by global Free trade in agricultural products and an end to all production, export and income supports for the agricultural sector," nastily describing such measures as "stupid and collectively self-defeating." In a separate piece, Buiter expressed his disdain for the very concept of the nation-state, saying, "I attach no intrinsic value to national security," and calling for "immediate outside intervention" to overthrow the "deeply evil" and "wicked junta" of Myanmar, a "Pol Pottish collection of murderous incompetents." Buiter, continuing his rug-biting fit, attacked China and India for not intervening against their neighbor.
The imperial "free trade" policies the British are pushing have already devastated the farmers of Europe, the U.S., and elsewhere, increasing the power of the giant food cartel companies over nations and their populations, and, combined with the hyperinflationary disintegration of the global financial system, are causing shortages of food and sharply rising prices for what is left. The Brits, rushed by a financial system collapsing faster than they expected, are in a flight forward to bankrupt nations, topple governments and impose a global fascist regime, and are using food as a weapon in their war on humanity.
There is opposition, however. French Agriculture Minister Michel Barnier has called on the EU to erect new tariffs to encourage European self-sufficiency in food, and Germany is urging higher health and environmental standards for food imported into Europe, while Italy also objects to the Brutish plan, and the Irish Farmers Union is threatening to mobilize against the Lisbon Treaty. Such moves are useful, but insufficient. What is needed, as Helga Zepp-LaRouche has insisted, is an immediate doubling of global food production to stop starvation, and putting the global financial system through bankruptcy. Food is a crucial battlefield, but the war is between the modern nation-state system and the Anglo-Dutch Liberal empire, the real deeply evil and murderous incompetents in this fight.
