Today's food crisis isn't a blip
For anyone wondering where food prices are really headed, the news that Beijing has begun buying up farmland in Africa and South America offers a troubling hint.
US Warns Tourists of 'Small-Unit Combat' at Mexico Border
13,000 displaced by SAfrica mobs as Mbeki urges calm
Fight to save wheat falters
In the face of a devastating new plant disease that threatens the world's wheat crops, the U.S. government has cut the budget for research that might head off the infestation.
Abkhazia: the frozen conflict that is thawing rapidly
Heavy gunfire breaks out along border between Georgia, Abkhazia
George Soros: 'We face the most serious recession of our lifetime'
Energy Watchdog Warns Of Oil-Production Crunch
Nine meals from anarchy - how Britain is facing a very real food crisis
It was Lord Cameron's estimation that it would take just nine meals - three full days without food on supermarket shelves - before law and order started to break down, and British streets descended into chaos.
US property foreclosures up 65%
The Financial Tsunami has not reached its Climax
Credit Default Swaps: Next Phase of an Unravelling Crisis
US rail network facing congestion 'calamity'
China’s Cyber-Militia
Worries Mount as Farmers Push for Big Harvest
At a moment when the country’s corn should be flourishing, one plant in 10 has not even emerged from the ground, the Agriculture Department said Monday.
Surgeon: one in three [UK] trauma patients has been knifed
Pentagon says AFRICOM Will Be Ready for Full Operations October 1
Rate of Violence Skyrocketing in Afghanistan
In terms of enemy fire, May 2008 was the second deadliest month of the war since hostilities began in Afghanistan shortly after 9/11. This also marked the end of the deadliest 12-month period for U.S. troops in combat in Afghanistan since the war began nearly seven years ago.
Through the floor
America's house prices are falling even faster than during the Great Depression
Home price drop means $4 trillion in lost capital
Zimbabwe faces worst harvest on record as Robert Mugabe stops charity food handouts
Opposing Robert Mugabe is now 'treason' in Zimbabwe
Traders predict [UK] house prices will fall by 50% in four years
Surging inflation will stoke riots and conflict between nations, says report
Apocalypse in the Oceans
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