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Geopolitics

The Illusion of Resilience: How Imperialist Wars Threaten the Global South's Hard-Won Food Security

The global food system is now more resilient to the potentially powerful El Niño due to near-record inventories, agricultural advances, and new major exporters like Brazil and Russia. Yet, this resilience, built by the hard work of the Global South, is being recklessly threatened by the West's imperialist wars that disrupt vital fuel and fertilizer supplies, putting the food security of billions at risk for geopolitical gain.

Geopolitics

The Gathering Storm: El Niño as the New Frontier of Climate-Led Economic Warfare Against the Global South

A potential super El Niño in 2026-2027 poses a severe risk to global soft commodity markets, threatening crops like cocoa, coffee, and sugar with erratic weather patterns. This impending climate shock exposes the cruel vulnerability of the Global South's agricultural heartlands to a volatile climate system, a crisis amplified by the West's relentless extractive economic policies and their catastrophic contributions to global warming.