Archive for March 24th, 2022

24/03/2022

The Cost of War: 23 Million Afghans Suffer Acute Hunger, 95% of All Don’t Eat Enough Food

Human Wrongs Watch

MADRID, Mar 24 2022 (IPS)* – Following 20 long years (2011-2021) of brutal war on Afghanistan by the US-led military coalition, which ended up in delivering the country to the Taliban in August 2021, 23 million Afghans now face severe and acute hunger, economic bankruptcy, healthcare system collapse, unbearable family indebtedness, and devastating humanitarian crisis.

A mother and her children fled conflict in Lashkargah and now live in a displaced persons camp in Kandahar, southern Afghanistan. Credit: UNICEF Afghanistan

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24/03/2022

Waltzing Toward Armageddon with the Merchants of Death

Human Wrongs Watch

By Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service*

The doctrine of permanent war dominated our lives during the Cold War and dominates our lives now.
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Raft of Doom / Illustration by Mr. Fish

The Cold War, from 1945 to 1989, was a wild Bacchanalia for arms manufacturers, the Pentagon, the CIA, the diplomats who played one country off another on the world’s chess board, and the global corporations able to loot and pillage by equating predatory capitalism with freedom.

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24/03/2022

Water Scarcity in Africa to Reach Dangerously High Levels by 2025 – Experts

Human Wrongs Watch

Nairobi, Kenya, Mar 23 2022 (IPS)* – Joan Waweru was among villagers on their regular trek to the river to fetch water when they discovered a neighbour’s dead body, believed to have committed suicide by drowning in river Kamiti.

Access to clean, affordable and safe drinking water is far from universal across Africa. Credit: Joyce Chimbi

She was thirteen years old and recalls how even after the traumatizing incident, the village, and many others along river Kamiti, which runs along coffee plantations in Kiambu County of Kenya’s Central region, continued to rely on the river as their primary source of water for all domestic purposes.

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