Bread Economics and The Destruction of The Global South..

Adebayo Adeniran
4 min readOct 11, 2024

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It was Henry Kissinger, the recently deceased German-American diplomat and war criminal, who said, if you control the oil, you control the nations and if you control the food, you control the people.

And everything which followed from the gatekeepers, corroborates the man’s statement.

When the Soviet Union in the 1970s made huge purchases of grains from the United States, it had no idea of the degree to which this initiative was part of a grand scheme from the former diplomat to hand over state power to a few individuals.

And when the wealthy land owners in Chile, ‘collaborated’ with the CIA to sabotage their farm produce, the subsequent unravelling of the Allende government’s foreign reserves led to the 11th of September 1973 coup, which ushered in Augusto Pinochet.

The grain scarcity which ensued in the same period led to the quadrupling of prices and also led to the consolidation of the position of the American oligopolies — ADM, Bunge, Cargill and Louis Dreyfuss.

I state this point because the control of food has been the stuff of nightmares for a vast number of leaders of the global South and we have seen how this has been weaponized by the west and east in the war for the control of resources.

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Adebayo Adeniran

A lifelong bibliophile, who seeks to unleash his energy on as many subjects as possible