starvation

The acute misery which had been deliberately visited on Germany, Austria and Hungary was remorseless. British, French and Italian obstruction …Continue reading →

Herbert Hoover realised that vindictive human nature played into the hands of his Secret Elite masters in Europe [1] but …Continue reading →

Words like hunger and starvation found no place in the vocabulary of the British press when Lloyd George decided to …Continue reading →

In response to Venezuela's food shortage, some women left the country and turned to the sex trade in neighboring Colombia to survive and to send food home to their children. [...]

The economy is Venezuela is dead. My father lost his air conditioning business and people like our neighbors that were middle and upper class a few years ago can't afford food. Thanks to the rising price of Bitcoin, my family is part of a very small fortunate minority that can afford to help feed their community and also potentially immigrate to another country.

In this March, 2016 photo, Udai Faisal, who is suffering from acute malnutrition, is hospitalized in Sanaa, Yemen. Udai died on March 24th. Hunger has been the most horrific consequence of Yemen’s conflict and has spiraled since Saudi Arabia and its allies, backed by the U.S., launched a campaign of airstrikes and a naval blockade. (AP/Maad al-Zikry)

Somalia is on the verge of a catastrophic humanitarian crisis and it needs urgent assistance. However, donors should invest in long-term development projects instead of relying on typical, ineffective, forms of relief. 

Medical sources say that 115 people have died of cholera in the past two weeks, while thousands of children have been killed in the nearly two year conflict [Xinhua]
A cholera outbreak is sweeping through the Yemeni capital Sanaa, the Ministry of Health reported late Sunday.
“This declaration came after the cholera epidemic spreads across the capital’s districts and neighborhoods,” the health ministry said, adding that 115 people had died of the epidemic in the past two weeks alone with an additional 2,567 already infected.

Venezuela used to be one of South America's richest countries but years of explicitly socialist policies from the Chavez and Maduro regimes have taken their toll. Today, who can honestly defend the socialist structure that has caused Venezuela to descend into a nightmare of starvation and violence?