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Will Obama Bring 1990s Food Policy to an End?

Farmers Protest WTO in Hong Kong
Let's just say that Comrade George Bush's $700 billion no-speculator-left-behind bailout of US financiers - perhaps the most significant wave of government takeovers of the economic commanding heights since Fidel Castro's moves in tiny Cuba back in the 1960s - undermines the credibility of neo-conservative insistence that all problems must be solved through unregulated markets.