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  Adding insult to injury: Bush says starving India eats too much

By *Kavita Krishnan*

May 7, 2008 -- Karl Marx, born on 5 May, 1818, nearly two centuries ago, 
had in 1867 laid bare the ``intimate connection between the pangs of 
hunger of the most industrious layers of the working class, and the 
extravagant consumption, coarse or refined, of the rich, for which 
capitalist accumulation is the basis'' (/Capital/ Vol. 1, Ch. 25). In 
May 2008, nearly a century and a half later, as we hear Emperor Bush 
hold forth on global hunger, we are reminded that capitalism and global 
wealth remains just as intimately wedded to hunger.

The global policeman Bush, in the time-honoured traditions of the 
backyard bully, has long harboured the habit of dictating to nations who 
their friends and enemies should be. Now, he has taken to telling 
nations how much they should eat, and of wagging a disapproving finger 
at poor nations whose middle class has made some improvements in its diet.

Bush's sentiments (and those of his lieutenant Condoleezza Rice) reek of 
callous contempt for the world's poor.

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