Creating Surplus Populations: The Effect of Military and Corporate Policies on Indigenous Peoples

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Creating Surplus Populations: The Effect Of Military And Corporate Policies On Indigenous Peoples is a courageous and important book which refutes the self-serving misinformation coming from the UN Population Conference in Egypt and Western governments. The new challenge for human rights activists is to guarantee to indigenous and Third World peoples the same rights that modernized societies claim for themselves. Top do this, one must understand the impact of GATT and NAFTA on traditional and emerging societies. This will be the basis for long-lasting solutions to mass migrations and displacement. Along with the papers and essays from refugee experts, Creating Surplus Populations contains selections from UN Conventions on the rights of refugees and the complete text of the draft Convention on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. While other studies have documented the crisis, Creating Surplus Populations uniquely reveals the root causes for why some 50 million people worldwide are now refugees.

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The last two decades have seen a tremendous growth in the number of refugees, displaced persons, and migrants. Media reports generally lay the blame on ethnic or religious warfare, incompetent third-world government, or natural disasters. This book lays the blame at the feet of Western armed intervention (either directly or through surrogates) and corporate global expansionism. This is a courageous and important book that poses realsolutions based on truthful analyses of the world's great tragedies. Covers such nations as Haiti, East Timor, Iraq, Cuba, Rwanda, Bosnia, Native America, and more. Read this book as an antidote to the lies and distortions coming from the mass media in the United States and Western Europe. Get the real story on Bosnia-how the U.S. and Germany are creating a surplus population as a result of their desire to divide the economic control of Eastern Europe among themselves.


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In the 1980s and 1990s, the world has seen one refugee crisis after another - Rwanda, palestine, Somalia, South Africa, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and many other places. Western news media generally portray these human tragedies as the result of intractable ethnic or religious warfare, incompetent post-colonial governments, or natural disasters. What's almost never mentioned is the role of Western armed forces and corporations. This book lays the blame for the creation of surplus populations squarely at the feet of the military and development policies of Western nations, much of the damage being done by the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and weapons manufacturers. Along with GATT and NAFTA, these international agencies act as the apparatus of neo-colonialism. Traditional cultures have dealt for centuries with the problems of food scarcity, population, ethnic strife, and natural disaster in ways that did not lead to massive refugee camps that we now see. This is a courageous and important book which refutes the self-serving over-population myths coming from the UN Population Conference or Western governments. The new challenge for human rights activists progressives is to guarantee to indigenous peoples the same rights that modernized societies claim for themselves.


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