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“High food prices are here to stay, and their impact on the poor in developing countries who spend a high proportion of their income on food can be devastating”

Street Child, Bangladesh | Wikimedia Commons

Their number exceeds one billion and up to 98% of them live in developing countries.

They are the hungry people who have to add to their sufferance the very fact that food prices continue to increase, with no hope that they decline, and the so-called developed countries international continue to dump millions of tons of fresh food in the sea, blindly obeying the ‘market lords’ diktat.

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) did need to say this, but it did: food prices are literally a matter of life and death, especially for the poorest of the poor, who already spend anywhere from 80% to 90% of their income on food.

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By Jayantha Dhanapala*

‘Napoleon is said to have remarked: “Bayonets are wonderful! One can do anything with them except sit on them!”. Today’s bayonets are nuclear weapons; and we are actually sitting on them.’

WASHINGTON D.C. — One definition of an outlier, in the original field of statistics from where the term has come, is “one that appears to deviate markedly from other members of the sample in which it occurs.”

Jayantha Dhanapala

Thus, in a world where the global norm is membership of the Treaty for the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), nuclear weapon armed states outside the NPT have been referred to as the outliers.

By Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch

There are no weather forecasts for that, so you must do it by yourself. Just watch the sky every time you can as it might rain atomic bombs. It is not about any fiction tall– a technical problem, a new virus or a hiker attack, could order drones (unmanned aircrafts) to empty their full-of-nuclear-weapons’ stomach on your head.

Armed Predator drone firing Hellfire missile | Wikimedia Commons

Here you are the story. Apparently not content with being the most powerful war machine on earth, the U.S. almighty military reportedly needs now an additional huge amount of money to “modernise” its weapons of mass destruction (WMD), specifically nuclear weapons.

According to fresh reports from Washington on mid June, the U.S military would be putting pressure on the Congress to allocate some 750 billion dollars overone decade for such purpose.

Out of this figure, this U.S. taxpayers money would be spent over on maintaining  the military nuclear arsenals (54 billions a year, 540 billion in ten years), and producing more ‘efficient’ nuclear weapons of mass destruction, new submarines and missiles… and new drones carrying atomic heads ready to kill any time by remote control. 

U.S. Three Mile Island nuclear power plant, scenario of 1979 nuclear accident | Wikimedia Commons

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Nuclear power is not only the most controversial and dangerous form of energy generation, it is also one of the most expensive, Greenpeace International reports.

Until now, little was known about banks’ contributions to the nuclear sector. While most large commercial banks provide figures on their annual investments into renewable energy, they prefer to keep the billions of euros they pour into the nuclear industry secret.

Soldier and Iraqi Children | Public Domain | Wikimedia Commons

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‘In the 1970s, Iraq was one of the best countries in the Middle East and North Africa to be a child, but due to decades of war and neglect, it has become one of the worst,‘ says Kadhum Al-Sahir, UNICEF ambassador to Iraq.

Referring unofficially to the consequences of the US-led invasion and military occupation in 2003, called ‘Operation Iraqi Freedom’, Al Shair said that  ‘Iraq’s children have endured incredible hardship over the last couple of decades, with hundreds of thousands suffering from the brutal effects of violence and inhumane deprivation.’

The UNICEF ambassador to Iraq mentioned some of the major issues facing Iraq’s 15 million children: