Hood Notes

Exporting Exploitation

The United States, international financial institutions and Europe were identified in separate reports as partly responsible for the famine in Africa. Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy and the United Nations, charged the World Bank (WB) and International Monetary Fund (IMF), backed by US muscle, with exacerbating African hunger through programs that fatten the coffers of multinational corporations at the expense of poor people.

IMF/WB economic structural adjustment plans force indebted nations to pay down debt by cutting services for their citizens, exporting crops, dismantling crop reserves and devaluing their currencies. The reports condemned the US for causing the hardship then providing aid that amounts to a de facto means of product support for US farmers. Europe and the US keep Africans in poverty by perpetuating a system of closed markets and heavily subsidized agriculture.

Exporting Exploitation Issue 1

Testing Overboard Issue 2

Fatal Formula Issue 3

Oil and Gas Issue 4

Peeping Poin Issue 5

 Minority Report (2002) Issue 6

UN: Body for World Peace Issue 7

The Inevitability of War Issue 8

African HIV/AIDS Issue 9

Syphilis-AIDS Connection Issue 9

Academic and Athletic Admissions at UGA Issue 10

MOAB - Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb Issue 11

Pondering Prospects Issue 12

Every Child Every Bomb Issue 13

License to Kill: Contemporary Lynching Issue 14

Cornelius P. Rhoads Memorial Award Issue 18

Annual Malcolm X-Day Issue 19

Bush to World: "Drop Dead!" Issue 22

"Afro-Descendant Minorities" Issue 23

A Sin Against God! Issue 24

"Flag Wars:" A POV Gentrification Documentary Issue 25

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