The geopolitics of world population change.

• Author: Williams, J. Edgar
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By Irving Louis Horowitz (Rutgers University)

Writing for the Foreign Policy Research Institute, Irving Louis Horowitz, the Hannah Arendt Professor Emeritus of Social and Political Science, maintains that a revived Fidel Castro has seized on the bio-fuels issue as a weapon to attack the United States and globalization, split the West, and form a new global alliance of totalitarian ideologues. Describing U.S. bio-fuels policy as "the internationalization of genocide," Castro misleadingly claims that all grains used for fuel injure the environment and inevitably deprive the poor of food. He then mixes corn, oil, and globalization, charging that Western efforts to reduce dependency on foreign oil by using bio-fuels such as ethanol will cause worldwide starvation.

On that foundation, Castro schemes to unify Latin America's...