| Every day, 30,000 children under
the age of five die around the world from hunger and/or preventable
diseases. That's 11,000,000
children
a
year (2002
figures).
Why do these children continue to die even as you read this?
Injustice
and the extreme poverty it
causes: the global economic system
designed
and enforced by the United States (Bretton Woods, World Bank, IMF, GATT,
WTO) ensures that 25% of the
world's people receive
75% of
the income, and 20% of the world's people own
86%
of
the wealth.
There's
simply not enough left over for the world's other 4-5 billion people to survive.
This is
deliberate mass murder on an
unprecedented scale: true hyper-terrorism compared to which any
other terrorist acts -- however notorious -- pale into insignificance.
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