June 19, 2009 (Commodity Online) -- The world faces “mass starvation” following North America’s next major crop failure. And it could even happen before year’s end. So says Chicago-based Don Coxe, who is one of the world’s leading experts on agricultural commodities, so much so that Canada’s renowned BMO Financial Group named the fund after him.

  June 27, 2009 -- Doom-mongers have got it wrong - there is enough space in the world to produce the extra food needed to feed a growing population. And contrary to expectation, most of it can be grown in Africa, say two international reports.

  June 29 (Bloomberg) -- Bernard Madoff told a federal judge he had no excuses before a judge sentenced him to 150 years for masterminding the largest Ponzi scheme in history.

  June 29 (Bloomberg) -- Investors are moving in lockstep like never before, driving up stocks, commodities and emerging markets and risking a replay of last year, when they all plunged the most since World War II.

  Interview with Jane Burgermeister, a science journalist who has filed criminal charges against the World Health Organization, U.S. officials and business executives. She alleges that the H1N1 “swine flu” pandemic is a hoax designed to sell vaccines.

  America is "the man in the mirror," the gigantic, floundering Narcissus, sailing into the stormy seas of history.

  June 24 (Bloomberg) -- The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development raised its forecast for the economy of its 30 member nations for the first time in two years as the U.S. slump shows signs of easing.

  June 18 (Bloomberg) -- Polar ice caps are melting faster and oceans are rising more than the United Nations projected just two years ago, 10 universities said in a report suggesting that climate change has been underestimated.

  It will be up us, just like it always has been… the writer, the Nicuaraguan janitor, the forty-year-old family man forced to bag groceries at Walmart, the pizza delivery guy, the welder and the certified nurse… the long haul trucker and the short order cook. And they will snicker at us from their gilded roosts on Wall Street and Pennsylvania Avenue.

  June 12, 2009 (Washington Post) -- The global economy is set to shrink this year more than previously expected, according to a forecast issued yesterday by the World Bank.

  World Health Organization raising swine flu alert to highest level.  Its First Global Flu Epidemic In 41 Years.

  Tens of millions of people will be displaced by climate change in coming years, posing social, political and security problems of an unprecedented dimension.

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  June 8, 2009 -- Giant jellyfish like this one are taking over parts of the world's oceans as overfishing and other human activities open windows of opportunity for them to prosper, say researchers.

  June 9 (Bloomberg) -- The Wall Street firms that trade directly with the Federal Reserve say speculators betting that interest rates may head higher this year are wrong.

  June 9 (Bloomberg) -- Pacific Investment Management Co., which runs the world’s biggest bond fund, said the economic outlook “looks bad” for most of the world and central banks will refrain from raising interest rates.

  The notion that Henry Paulson is a hero is complete and utter madness because TARP would never have been necessary if someone, anyone who wasn't a greed-addled incompetent like Paulson, had actually been regulating the economy in the last years of the Bush adminstration.

June 8, 2009 -- pattrice jones is an ecofeminist educator, activist, and writer. She is the author of Aftershock: Confronting Trauma in a Violent World: A Guide for Activists and Their Allies and co-founder of the Eastern Shore Sanctuary and Education Center.