To the editor:

The 2024 Aug. 23rd Farm News editorial, “CommStock Family Farm Master Class announced for Feb. 21-22” by David Kruse, which displayed his shameful cavalierism toward family farmers being driven out of business was infuriating. His Jan. 24th editorial, “President Trump’s new borders envisioned for America” displays a shameful willingness to strike a Faustian bargain, the acceptance of the continual historical lawlessness wrapped in the philosophy of Manifest Destiny.

Unleashing military power to gain economic power for a Panama (Canal) takeover is not rational; it is an imperial fantasy. Land grabbing and resource grabbing results in the ultimate theft and the taking of human life. David’s absence of any acknowledgement of the historical crimes of slavery, genocide, land theft, under the so-called God blessed westward expansion called Manifest Destiny is disgusting to say the least.

How many readers know about Structural Adjustment Programs (SAP’s) the International Monetary Fund’s 45-year-old economic stranglehold on the Third World? It was and is the main driver of covert wars, hot wars, resource theft, land theft, human rights violations and environmental degradation.

Both political parties have not acknowledged the imperialistic strategy of the international banking system and its inhumane lust for profit and power in regards to mass migrations.

How many farmers understand that for the first time in human history, Franklin Roosevelt’s and his Secretary Of Agriculture Henry Wallace’s New Deal Farm program parity pricing, the matching of farm products to the inflationary spiral of farm inputs, was actually a bulwark against the imperial world strategy of debt bondage by the U.S. banking system.

The prospect of parity pricing for all the world’s farmers and a living wage for all the world’s workers poses an absolute nightmare for the imperialist mindset. That’s why we will never see the felon (Trump) in the White House signing an executive order mandating parity pricing and a living wage.

Debt bondage has been and continues to plague the world; it is the major cause of inhumanity leading to conflict.

Shame on Kruse for his shameless coddling, cavalierism and white washing of the cruelty of the imperialist mind.

I wonder how many family farmers have Kruse and Bruce Rastetter displaced in Brazil? Perhaps we should ask the MST, the Brazilian landless workers movement.

Larry Ginter

Rhodes