Global food prices on the rise.(Inside Track)(Brief article)

The recent precipitous climb in global food prices is nothing less than "mass murder," according to UN food envoy Jean Ziegler. In a recent interview with an Austrian newspaper, Ziegler, commenting on the climb in commodities prices that have triggered food riots in Haiti and growing lines from Latin America to Africa to Asia of hungry people seeking UN food handouts, suggested that the food shortages are a consequence of globalization. Multinationals, market traders, financial speculators, and other "financial bandits" are responsible for the crisis. "Hunger has not been down to fate for a long time--just as Karl Marx thought.... This is silent mass murder," he averred, adding, "We have to put a stop to this."

And that's the rub. "We," of course, means UN authorities and kindred globalists, most of whom, like Ziegler, accept Karl Marx's version of reality. To wit: financial crises, shortages, recessions, and other alleged "failures" of the free market are all consequences of the rapacity of wicked capitalists. Marx's solution ...