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its state, can really elude the control of structural hidden forces, be they financial or economic. Employed by competing private bodies with the help of media manipulation, what science and technology have achieved runs the great risk of submitting to these forces which would also affect the development of democracy in modern societies. The following two articles analyse aspects of the risks at stake. Joseph L. Barona, of the University of Valencia, Spain, explains how these structural forces are at work in the health industry as well as in the national defence expenditure of his country. On a broader horizon, Michel Chossudovsky, of the University of Ottawa, Canada, shows that "Famines in the age of globalisation are the result of policy. […] Famine is not the consequence of a scarcity of food but in fact quite the opposite: global food surpluses are used to destabilize agricultural production in developing countries."
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