FOOD ABUNDANCE AND SCARCITY: FEEDING OUR FOOD TO OUR FOOD. Frances Moore Lappe enters a Thanksgiving reflection on the irony that the world produces enough food to feed world population, but much of it gets wasted in ways that prevent its consumption in nutritional forms. Among the ironies of the agri-business mode of [...]
“OUR SITUATION IS NOT EASY-WITH NO ONE HELPING US.” (IPS News) A refugee in southern Mali from civil strife in the north of the country voices this complaint. The World Food Programme is attempting to address the situation in a recent addition to African scenes of humanitarian crisis; but the help is slow in being delivered [...]
MEET AMADOU SANOGO, FRUIT OF THE TREE OF UNITED STATES AFRICA COMMAND “TRAINING.” (Black Agenda Report) Sanogo was a Captain in the African country of Mali when he led a coup to overthrow the government. As he continues to rule while suppressing a vicious counter-coup, it is noted that Ganogo was one of a myriad of [...]
IT’S AIPAC-BLOSSOM TIME IN WASHINGTON, D.C. (New York Times) Candidates for President—the incumbent and his GOP rivals—stand in line to address the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. While the Republicans pander the jingo votes with a tough stands against the possibility of Iran gaining nuclear weapons and becoming a more ominous “existential” threat to Israel, Obama condemns [...]
PAYNES PRAIRIE IS NOT VERY COMPANIONABLE TO BUFFALO ROAMING THEREON. (Gainesville Sun) Local “cowboys” begin a long talked-about process of thinning the herd of about 70 bison who roam the state preserve of Paynes Prairie just south of Gainesville, Florida (coincidentally the locale of a fog-induced disastrous traffic pile-up 3 weeks ago—an event which no [...]
FIVE WORST STORIES OF 2011: REMEMBERING WHAT YOU HOPED TO FORGET ` MAY 1: DING, DONG, THE WICKED WITCH IS DEAD. Happy celebrations, from a triumphant “mission accomplished” White House appearance of President Obama to spontaneous dancing in the street, greet the news that Osama bin Laden, generally labeled as the force behind the 9/11/01 [...]
“MAKING EVIL ACTS SEEM ENTERTAINING.” (Black Agenda Report) This is Margaret Kimberley’s view of the “mission accomplished” Veterans Day appearance by President Obama on the U.S.S. Vinson, the ship used to carry the body of Osama bin Laden to its summary burial at sea. His appearance coincides with the news that several NCAA basketball games [...]
THINKING THAT IMPENDING U.S.-COLOMBIA FREE TRADE AGREEMENT WILL HELP THE MASS OF COLOMBIAN PEOPLE? KAREN HANSEN-KUHN SAYS THINK AGAIN. (Common Dreams) Director of a trade and agriculture institute devoted to promoting development interests of developing countries, Hansen-Kuhn sees in Obama administration’s proposed trade pact for Colombia merely a continuation of “free trade” agreements like those [...]
THE MORTGAGE FRAUD MELTDOWN CONTINUES AS FEDERAL INVESTIGATORS NAB MEGA-BANKS THAT THEY SAY ATTEMPTED TO “SWINDLE” UNCLE SAM — AND TAXPAYERS. Stemming from reports last year that some of America’s largest mortgage companies and banks fraudulently foreclosed on homeowners, a new federal investigation has apparently found an even more pervasive and potentially serious scheme at [...]
VIOLENCE RACKS ISRAELI BORDER AREAS; AND THE NEW YORK TIMES CITES FOREIGN INFLUENCE. (New York Times) As a new round of Nakba protests “celebrates” the 63rd anniversary of Israeli independence day, the Israeli-friendly Times displays its understanding of the side on which its corporate bread is buttered. In explaining the protests, it “credits” the influence [...]
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