!0 million for famine, 500 million for military (BKH)

After appealing for famine money since the locust plague last year, at the end of July the U.N. finally received a donation of 10 million dollars for the famine victims in Niger. Meanwhile Niger is receiving 500 million dollars in military aid, for, you see, Niger is a rich source of the Uranium required for the production of Weapons of Mass Destruction. This is on top of the millions Niger is receiving in the form of military training in what is supposedly training for the 'war against terrorism', but as is the case in all poor countries, is actually part of the machinary of oppression of the poorest people on earth, and thus best described as the 'war against revolution' , the exact same tactic you see practiced against the Bolivians, and all other third world people, and since it is for such a good cause, receives many billions in funding without the need for constant appeals.
Bombs not Food. This is the slogan for the current capitalist system, and unlike appeals for food money which go unanswered, Bomb money flows in a steady stream, forked over with remarkable generosity, as you would expect money to flow like gusher, when its for a good cause.

Close to 20 million people are malnourished in the SubSaharan region with 8 locust hit nations on the famine danger list. Already the famine in Niger, with 3 million starving, is being called one of the biggest relief operations in history, or it could be, depending on whether or not the monstrous governments of the world, who have been stubbornly refusing to fork over so much as a dime, actually find some spare change in their capitalistic wallets for Food, not Bombs. These are the same governments who put on a big sham of pretending to be generous during that Live 8 / G8 propaganda scam, where a honey pot was set out to keep busy activists real busy pressuring governments to keep to their time table of providing debt relief to Africa in the year 2010, just as they eliminated child poverty in the year 2000, if anyone remembers that other phony honey pot from the past.

The disaster in Niger has been worsened by IMF policies through which a 19 percent tax was added onto the price of food, and food was to be made subject only to pure market forces, which then led to the abolition of the system of emergency grain reserves (the capitalistic logic behind such cruelty being that having free food around would 'distort the market'). To make matters worse organizations such as the U.N. drag their feet when it comes to giving out free food as do so many Aid agencies, on the theory that once again this will distort those precious capitalistic market forces, which just goes to show you how deeply entrenched that twisted inhumane ideology of capitalistic greed has become in this world.