The Guardian is hands-down the best newspaper in the English language. Not blinded by "the City" as the New York Times is blinded by Wall Street, this UK paper and its reporters are consistently able to report on and analyse the real world with all of its social and ecological parts, not the stunted "economic" world that the wealthy and privileged think is real. Today's Guardian has three excellent pieces worth your while:
Walter Mosley on Obama: 'He was like a surgeon given a rusty scalpel'
Obama has shown unflagging will and leadership, the novelist says in his verdict on the presidency
Treating food like stocks and shares is a recipe for disaster
Allowing financiers to gamble with food commodities distorts the market and is a real threat to the world's poor
Food scarcity: the timebomb setting nation against nation
As the UN and Oxfam warn of the dangers ahead, expert analyst Lester Brown says time to solve the problem is running out
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