Food and Hunger
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Over 60 percent of Afghans suffer mental health problems (Agence France-Presse)
Oct. 10, 2010 -- KABUL (Agence France-Presse) -- Scarred by decades of war, social problems and poverty, more than 60 percent of Afghans suffer from stress disorders and mental health problems, a top ...
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Record 41.8 Million Americans Receiving Food Stamps (Michael Krebs)
Oct. 6, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- As the November midterm elections draw closer, the stubborn unemployment rate has pushed a record 41.8 million Americans onto food stamps. Representing an ...
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The Truth about Immigration (Mickey Z.)
Mickey Z. -- World News Trust May 18, 2010 -- Everything negative you’ve heard about immigration is true. In fact, all the election cycle talk about lazy parasites pouring over borders to leech off a ...
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There Is Class War, and Rich Are Winning (Dave Zweifel)
Oct. 6, 2010 -- The Capital Times (Wisconsin) -- A University of Chicago law professor created a firestorm of controversy last month when he blogged that he and his wife are barely making ends meet w ...
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Global Unemployment to Trigger Further Social Unrest, UN Agency Forecasts (Julia Kollewe)
International Labour Organisation (ILO) notes that social unrest has already been reported in at least 25 countries Oct. 1, 2010 (The Guardian) -- The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has warn ...
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Animal Rights/Vegan Issues: Where's the Left? (Mickey Z.)
Mickey Z. -- World News Trust March 17, 2010 -- In a recent article, I discussed how America’s top liberal (sic) eco-spokesperson, Al Gore, conveniently ignores the primary cause of climate change: f ...
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'Good Food,' A Movement, Not Just A Movie (Carolyn Baker)
WATCH TRAILER Sept. 22, 2010 (CarolynBaker.net) -- While the movie "Good Food" spotlights organic farming in America's Pacific Northwest, if you've been paying any attention to the mood of consumers ...
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So Many Suckers, So Few Bridges (David Glenn Cox)
David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust Sept. 10, 2010 -- I sometimes don’t know who I am anymore. As I was walking to the library and I saw a younger man in a business suit buying gas. I thought to myse ...
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Labor Day and the Easter Bunny (David Glenn Cox)
David Glenn Cox David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust Sept. 3, 2010 -- Monday is Labor Day, a national holiday in America that’s come to be as meaningless as the Easter bunny. It is a holiday that mill ...
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Behind the Israeli Wall: A Lesson in Reality (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Sept. 2, 2010 -- Writers often romanticize their subjects. At times they even manipulate their readers. A book -- or any piece of writing for that matter ...
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BOOK REVIEW: Palestine Betrayed. By Efraim Karsh (Jim Miles)
Palestine Betrayed. Efraim Karsh. Yale University Press, London, 2010. Aug. 27, 2010 (Palestine Chronicle) -- Was Palestine betrayed? Of course it was, by the British, the United States, France, the ...
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