Hunger

The International Food Crisis and Proposals To Overcome It

September 15, 2022 UNAC Editor Global Trade, International Aid and Debt, Reparations, War on the Poor

By Eric Toussaint and Omar Aziki, published on Socialist Action, September 6, 2022 This excellent piece speaks clearly about the ways in which the neoliberal global economy impoverishes freeholder farmers and the poor in the resource wealthy global south. [jb] [Editor’s note: We reprint below the recent article by leaders of the Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt (CADTM).[…]

New US Strategy in Syria For Regime Change

February 14, 2022 UNAC Editor Hybrid Warfare, Sanctions and Economic Warfare, Syria, U.S. Aggression

by Steven Sahiounie, published on Mideast Discourse, February 14, 2022 Syria seems forgotten in the U.S. but the Caesar Sanctions, U.S. proxy occupation of the oil wells and wheat fields, and Turkish support for Salafists (including ISIS and many foreigners) in Northern Syria leave the country unable to rebuild or to meet the needs of the people. If our attention[…]

South Africa: The Fault-Lines of the World’s Most Unequal Society

July 18, 2021 Judith Bello Protest, Socio-Economic Struggles, South Africa, South Africa

by John Allen, published on All Africa, July 18, 2021 South Africa was born in the clutches of the IMF and the World Bank. It is no surprise that even a government run by a revolutionary party became, after less than 30 years, riddled with corruption, while implementing divestment and impoverishment of the very people from whom they emerged as[…]

US Imperialist Boot on Haiti

March 27, 2021 UNAC Editor Haiti, Racism, Refugees

by Marty Goodman, published on Socialist Action, March 23, 2021 On Feb. 28, thousands of Haitians marched through the capital, Port-au-Prince, and other cities across the country to demand that the de facto President Jovenal Moïse and his corrupt crony capitalist blood-stained oligarchy step down. A relentless, arrogant U.S. imperialism is putting its money – once again – on this[…]

A Hunger Crisis in Guatamala

August 22, 2020 UNAC Editor Guatamala, Latin America, War on the Poor

By Yanis Iqbal, published on Countercurrents, August 20, 2020 A report released by Oxfam in July 2020 states, “COVID-19 is deepening the hunger crisis in the world’s hunger hotspots and creating new epicentres of hunger across the globe. By the end of the year 12,000 people per day could die from hunger linked to COVID-19, potentially more than will die from[…]

Protecting Food From the Hungry

August 22, 2020 UNAC Editor Austerity, Brazil, South Africa

by Vijay Prashad, published on Consortium News, August 21, 2020 Young children marvel at an obvious contradiction in capitalist societies: why do we have shops filled with food, and yet see hungry people on the streets? It is a question of enormous significance; but in time the question dissipates into the fog of moral ambivalence, as various explanations are used[…]

COVID-19: Hunger Gnaws at the Edges of the World

May 23, 2020 UNAC Editor Agriculture, Austerity, Labor, War on the Poor

by Vijay Prashad and Richard Pithouse, published on Consortium News, May 19, 2020 Produced by the TriContinental Institute What the International Monetary Fund calls the Great Lockdown sent 2.7 billion people into either full unemployment or near unemployment, with many people one or two days away from desperate poverty and hunger, according to the International Labour Organization. Starvation is already evident in many regions[…]