Archive for the 'Humanitarian Crisis' Category

19 Jun 2008

An Immodest Proposal: Sink your teeth into this….

By Jason Miller Let’s face it, my fellow freedom and burger loving Americans. It is becoming painfully obvious that our non-negotiable American Way of Life is increasingly under attack. Yet while our meat consumption may be a wedge issue our foes are using against us, it can also be our salvation. We are facing swarms [...]

05 May 2008

‘Blood Diamonds’ ‘Blood Oil’ and ‘Blood Food’

by Pablo Ouziel* We are very comfortable in the west, all of us. We must learn to cut back on spending, organize ourselves as tax payers, and begin to demand disarmament from our governments, to pull them out of those apparently “unwanted” wars. Until then, the diamonds in our stores will be bloody, the food [...]

28 Apr 2008

The Politics of Food is Politics

An Alternative Agriculture is Possible By DE CLARKE and STAN GOFF In recent days, we have seen the rising price of oil and the devaluation of the dollar create two quantum shifts in the economy: the beginning of the collapse of the air travel industry and a global crisis of food-price inflation. These are related [...]

25 Apr 2008

War on Hunga

Note : Hunga is Texanese for Hunger. By Anwaar Hussain What is hunger? When the glucose level of the liver falls below a threshold, a feeling is experienced that is called hunger, usually followed by a desire to eat. Although an average nourished human can survive for weeks without food intake, the sensation of hunger [...]

24 Apr 2008

Lingering in Jalozai Camp

By Zaigham Khan, Thursday, April 24, 2008 It was like a tumour on the body of Peshawar, a cancer that had to be removed sooner or later. The surgeon’s knife is working swiftly to eliminate the last traces of the Jalozai Camp, a mini-Afghanistan, from the soil of Pakistan. Its graveyard, where the dead are [...]

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