Food and Hunger
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Declaring Palestine: Revisiting Hope and Failure (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Jan. 8, 2011 -- When late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat read the Declaration of the Palestinian Independence just over 22 years ago, Palestinians everywhere wer ...
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Once Upon a Time (David Glenn Cox)
David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust Jan. 2, 2010 -- As we approach the new year we must reflect, times are hard. The wars go on unabated, our people struggle unassisted, Wall Street continues on unmo ...
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The Collapse Of Human Civilization As We Know It -- Scenarios And Potential Solutions (Dale Tavris)
Dale Tavris, M.D.Dale Tavris -- World News Trust Dec. 1, 2010 -- Human civilization as we know it will come to an end in the foreseeable future. We don’t know exactly when or how. It may be soon. It ...
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Hope in 2011: Peoples, Civil Society Stand Tall (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Dec. 30, 2010 -- When the Iraqi army fell before invading U.S. and British troops in 2003, the latter’s mission seemed to be accomplished. But nearly eight years afte ...
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BOOKS: Insisting on Their Humanity: ‘The Plight of the Palestinians’ (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Dec. 16, 2010 -- When a copy of William A. Cook’s latest book, The Plight of the Palestinians arrived in my mailbox, I initially felt a little worried. The volume, fe ...
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Peak Energy, Climate Change, and the Collapse of Global Civilization (Tariel Mórrígan)
Global Climate Change, Human Security & Democracy -- Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies University of California, Santa Barbara -- October 2010 Nov. 21, 2010 -- This is the final chapt ...
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Food prices may rise by up to 20%, warns UN (John Vidal)
Prices of wheat, maize and many other foods traded internationally have risen by up to 40% in just a few months. Photograph: Simon Maina/AFP/Getty Images Poor harvests put global food reserves under ...
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Land of the Food Insecure: Record Rates of Hunger in US
Nov. 16, 2010 (BBC News) -- Almost 15 percent of US households experienced a food shortage at some point in 2009, a government report has found. US authorities say that figure is the highest they hav ...
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Watch Out: The World Bank Is Quietly Funding a Massive Corporate Water Grab (Scott Thill)
Nov. 2, 2010 (AlterNet) -- Billions have been spent allowing corporations to profit from public water sources even though water privatization has been an epic failure in Latin America, Southeast Asia ...
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New Report Refutes Industry Argument that Genetically Modified Salmon will Feed Hungry World Populations (Food and Water Watch Europe)
Nov. 4, 2010 -- BRUSSELS (Food and Water Watch Europe) -- Food & Water Europe released a report today outlining why the genetically engineered salmon currently being considered by the U.S. Food and D ...
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Nine Months After the Quake - a Million Haitians Slowly Dying (Bill Quigley)
Oct. 11, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- "If it gets any worse," said Wilda, a homeless Haitian mother, "we're not going to survive." Mothers and grandmothers surrounding her nodded solemnly. We ...
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