Creating Surplus Populations The Effects of Military and Corporate Policies on Indigenous Peoples

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Lenora Foerstel's Creating Surplus Populations lays the blame for the creation of surplus populations squarely at the feet of the military and development policies of Western nations, much of the damage being done by the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and weapons manufacturers. Along with GATT and NAFTA, these international agencies act as the apparatus of neo-colonialism. Traditional cultures have dealt for centuries with the problems of food scarcity, population, ethnic strife, and natural disaster in ways that did not lead to the huge numbers of massive refugee camps that we now see. Creating Surplus Populations is a courageous and important book which refutes the self-serving over-population myths coming from the UN Population Conference or Western governments. The new challenge for human rights activists and progressives is to guarantee to indigenous peoples the same rights that modernized societies claim for themselves. Creating Surplus Populations is an important and timely addition to any human rights, international political science, or world economics reading list.