Category Archives: Politics and Commentary

…according to the USDA report, more than 35 million people were living in households that are “food insecure.” That means 12 percent of the U.S. population didn’t get enough to eat for at least part of last year. According to the report, things got even worse for those who are worst off. The number of […]

The suburban poor outnumbered inner-city counterparts for the first time last year, with more than 12 million suburban residents living in poverty, according to a study of the nation’s 100 largest metropolitan areas released today. “Economies are regional now,” said Alan Berube, who co-wrote the report for the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank. “Where […]

A recent article on ProgressiveU.org points out a main factor in world hunger, the destruction of food: If all food produced worldwide every year was counted, there would be enough to feed double the world’s current population. So why is it that 36 million people die of malnutrition every year? World hunger is a vast […]

The below is a letter written by Nelson Mandela, of whom I am a great admirer. While poverty persists, there is no freedom BY NELSON MANDELA khaleejtimes.com 7 November 2006 [I have posted the poem he mentions, From the Republic of Conscience, below] IN JOHANNESBURG, this week, in the warm company of friends, like Nadine […]

The tiny island nation of Sao Tome is about to unlock the wealth from an estimated 11 billion barrels of oil from the seabed beneath those same Atlantic waters. The government says the oil is the answer to this country’s grinding poverty. Too often, in too many places across Africa, oil has only fomented despotism […]