food crisis

U.S.-EU hide their role in Afghan hunger crisis

On Jan. 24, U.S. and European Union representatives met with representatives of the Taliban in Oslo to discuss the situation…

February 7, 2022

Hunger, violence and earthquakes – Haiti’s problems intensify

The last week of January, two moderately severe earthquakes shook southwest Haiti in the department of Nippes. An official said…

February 2, 2022

Texas arrests more migrants, abandons food bank

The state of Texas continues to be hostile to migrants. The Kinney County Sheriff’s Department posted videos Aug. 6 of…

September 1, 2021

Violating U.S. ‘norms’, China aids global fight vs. hunger, disease

A document released by Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines April 9, “2021 Annual Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence…

May 12, 2021

Evictions, hunger, wage theft: pandemic triple threat to workers

It’s hard to put food on the table when you don’t have a home where you can put the table.…

May 11, 2021

Could depletion of fertile soil trigger a bigger U.S. food crisis?

U.S. farmland in the Midwest has lost over one-third of the soil necessary to sustain crop production, according to scientists…

March 9, 2021

Philadelphia / Protest outside Bezos-owned Whole Foods

Demonstrators supporting union rights for workers at the Bessemer, Ala., Amazon warehouse picketed outside the South St. Whole Foods market…

March 8, 2021

Portland, Ore. — Police stop hungry people from retrieving food from dumpster

Portland, Ore.  As a massive winter storm swept across the U.S. last week, knocking out power from Oregon to Texas…

February 22, 2021

Essential food workers battle COVID-19

Seattle  Big business neglect of the COVID pandemic continues to bring suffering and death to workers everywhere.  Essential workers, like…

October 5, 2020

While the stock market is booming, jobs report hides hunger

Getting enough food was hard for people working low-wage jobs before the pandemic. Now it’s harder, given the huge increase…

September 11, 2020