Today, the global antipoverty nonprofit Oxfam identifies 10 “extreme hunger hot spots” worldwide where millions of people face this abominable torture. Some are theaters of conflict—including Afghanistan, home to the longest war America has been involved in, and Yemen, where a civil war fueled...
A small child starving in Yemen really isn’t that different from you when you were a young age, except for the horrific circumstance they were born into. 5) Don’t give yourself away too much One of the worst things that can happen to sensitive and creative people is that theygive too...
Some of his remarks have been disputed by human rights groups, and others are unverifiable or lacked context. Here’s a closer look. What Was Said: International Criminal Court “The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has shamefully accused Israel of deliberately starving the people of...
A much-anticipated UN Security Council resolution calling for a cessation of Saudi-led war in Yemen and for the humanitarian aid to be allowed to reach millions of starving people was reportedly “stalled” this week after British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, who had moved the resolution, met ...
The US did next to nothing on its own to aid the starving Palestinians in theYarmoukrefugee camp outside Damascus. And the US has failed to support the democraticSelf-Administration Zonesin northern Syria, even though as Michael Beer ofNonviolence Internationalreports, these “autonomous governments...
Syria and Sudan, including South Sudan, and Yemen are others that will not recover in this decade, or until long after we are on the down-slope of peak oil. That brings to the US and Canada. The USA and Canada are responsible for about 120% of the increase in world oil production ...