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"All the Conditions Are Assembled for a New Food Crisis"

Herve Kempf and Clement Lacombe, Le Monde (Translation: Leslie Thatcher): "Hunger, still and always. And at levels never touched before: Under the impact of the economic crisis, the threshold of a billion people suffering from malnutrition was crossed in 2009. A situation to which the Global Summit on Food Security, taking place in Rome from Monday, November 16, to Wednesday, November 18, under the aegis of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), will - once again - attempt to bring elements of a response. United Nations Rapporteur for Food Rights since 2008, Belgian Olivier de Schutter, is alarmed by the situation."

https://www.truthout.org/1117096



Nearly One in Six Citizens Went Hungry in 2008

Jim Lobe, Inter Press Service: "As the World Food Security Summit got under way in Rome Monday, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) disclosed that nearly one in six US households went hungry at some time during 2008, the highest level since it began monitoring food security levels in 1995."

https://www.truthout.org/1117093

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US Hunger Reaches A 14-Year High

DigitalJournal.com

By Joan Firstenberg

More Americans are going hungrier than they have in the past 14 years. The actual figure of those living in households without ...

https://www.digitaljournal.com/article/282292

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Over 1.2 billion people suffering from hunger

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has declared that over 1.2 billion people across the globe are starving.

https://presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=111509&sectionid=3510212



Sixteen Deaths Per Day

Sixteen workers are killed a day in the United States because of reckless negligence on the part of their employers. Under existing laws, these employers get a slap on the wrist, or walk away scot-free. Meanwhile, workers who blow the whistle face threats and retaliation at the workplace.

https://16deathsperday.com/?utm_source=informationclearinghouse



Protest targets Goldman's billions

A crowd of protesters have gathered outside the Washington DC headquarters of banking giant Goldman Sachs. The protesters were angry at the more than $20bn in bonuses paid to Goldman Sachs executives.

https://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2009/11/2009111711643271510.html



Going Hungry In The USA

America's Economic Pain Brings Hunger Pangs

By Amy Goldstein

The nation's economic crisis has catapulted the number of Americans who lack enough food to the highest level since the government has been keeping track, according to a new federal report, which shows that nearly 50 million people -- including almost one child in four -- struggled last year to get enough to eat.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24005.htm



Hungry America: food insecurity, state by state

A new report from the US Department of Agriculture highlights the millions of Americans suffering from food insecurity. Find out how they compare from state to state.

https://snipurl.com/tay7f


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Hungering for a True Thanksgiving
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/18-0



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William Fisher, Truthout: "A court case accusing the government of indiscriminately wiretapping ordinary American citizens - coupled with legislation now making its way through Congress - could produce another major headache for President Obama."

https://www.truthout.org/1117097



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Andy Worthington, Truthout: "With just over two months to go until President Obama's deadline for the closure of Guantanamo, the administration has finally woken up to the necessity of actually doing something to facilitate the prison's closure by announcing on Friday that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other prisoners accused of involvement in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, will be brought to New York to face federal court trials."

https://www.truthout.org/1117095



Zombie Politics and Other Late Modern Monstrosities in the Age of Disposability

Henry A. Giroux, Truthout: "At present, Americans are fascinated by a particular kind of monstrosity, by vampires and zombies condemned to live an eternity by feeding off the souls of the living. The preoccupation with such parasitic relations speaks uncannily to the threat most Americans perceive from the shameless blood lust of contemporary captains of industry, which Matt Taibbi, a writer for Rolling Stone, has aptly described as 'a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.'"

https://www.truthout.org/111709Giroux



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By Joan Firstenberg

Suicides among US soldiers this year topped last year's record-breaking numbers. The majority are killing themselves while still on ...

https://www.digitaljournal.com/article/282305

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Army Suicide Rates Hit Record and May Continue to Rise

Yana Kunichoff, Truthout: "Suicides among veterans and soldiers have reached a record high this year and are set to continue rising, a Pentagon press conference confirmed Tuesday. The announcement, coming on the day that the suicide rate for 2009 reached the record number of 2008, leaves advocates worrying about the troop escalation of the Obama administration and the measures the Army has in place to deal with the combat scars which leave no physical trace."

https://www.truthout.org/1119097



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Campaign For Liberty
by James Bovard

11/16/09

Why do politicians so easily get away with telling lies? In large part, because the news media are more interested in bonding with politicians than in exposing them. Americans are encouraged to believe that the media will serve as a check and a balance on the government. Instead, the press too often volunteer as unpaid pimps, helping politicians deceive the public. In 1936, New York Times White House correspondent Turner Catledge said that President Roosevelt’s ‘first instinct was always to lie.’ But the Washington press corps covered up Roosevelt’s dishonesty almost as thoroughly as they hid his use of a wheelchair in daily life...

https://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=363



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ABC News

11/16/09

A new study finds the number of Americans lacking enough food to eat last year jumped to a higher level than at any point since the federal government began tracking the problem. The Agriculture Department’s annual ‘food security’ report finds 49 million people — nearly 15 percent of U.S. households — faced trouble getting enough food at some point during 2008. That’s a spike of four million more households than the previous year. About a third of those families — including one million children — had so little food that they were forced to cut back on meals...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Max Blumenthal, TomDispatch.com: "Sarah Palin's heavily publicized book tour begins in earnest this Monday, but weeks before, her ghostwritten memoir, Going Rogue: An American Life, had already vaulted into the number one position at Amazon. Warming up for a tour that will take her across Middle America in a bus, Palin tested her lines in a November 7th speech before a crowd of 5,000 anti-abortion activists in Wisconsin. She promptly cited an urban legend as a 'disturbing trend,' claiming the Treasury Department had moved the phrase 'In God We Trust' from presidential dollar coins ... In a Republican Party hoping to rebound in 2010 on the strength of a newly energized and ideologically aroused conservative grassroots, Palin's influence is now unparalleled."

https://www.truthout.org/1116091

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The new Palin campaign commences

Salon
by Max Blumenthal

11/16/09

In a Republican Party hoping to rebound in 2010 on the strength of a newly energized and ideologically aroused conservative grassroots, Palin’s influence is now unparalleled. Through her Facebook page, she was the one who pushed the rumor of ‘death panels’ into the national healthcare debate, prompting the White House to issue a series of defensive responses. Unfazed by its absurdity, she repeated the charge in her recent speech in Wisconsin. In a special congressional election in New York’s 23rd congressional district, Palin’s endorsement of Doug Hoffman, an unknown far-right third-party candidate, helped force a popular moderate Republican politician, Dede Scozzafava, from the race. In the end, Palin’s ideological purge in upstate New York led to an improbable Democratic victory, the first in that GOP-heavy district in more than 100 years...

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Sarah Palin and the decline of conservatism

Reason
by Steve Chapman

11/19/09

[T]he priorities of Going Rogue are striking poses and attitudes, not making actual arguments about the proper role of government. The book is meant to create an image, or maybe a brand — folksy but shrewd, tough but feminine, noble but beset by weaklings and traitors, ever-smiling unless you awaken her inner ‘Mama Grizzly Bear’ by scrutinizing her loved ones. No one could be more pleased with her than she is with herself. Reading the book is like watching Palin preen in front of a mirror for hours on end, as she tirelessly compliments herself for courage, gumption, devotion to family, and maverick independence. Who needs policy? In her world — and the world of legions of conservatives who revere her — the persona is the policy...

https://reason.com/archives/2009/11/19/palin-and-the-conservative-des


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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China Upbraids Obama: For Wild Central Planning, Inflation, and Low Investment
https://www.lewrockwell.com/douglas/douglas28.1.html

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Silence Requests Crosses Constitutional Bounds

Yana Kunichoff, Truthout: "An over-broad subpoena and a legally invalid gag order on an independent activist news site are pushing the bounds of First Amendment constitutional rights - and raising big questions about press freedom and personal privacy in the near-uncharted legal territory of new media. The recently publicized case of Indymedia.us, in which the US government subpoenaed the organization for the IP addresses of all visitors to the web site on a specific day as well as ordering the recipient not to disclose the government demand, and dropped it after it was challenged by Indymedia and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), highlights the lack of transparency and scope for abuse in what advocates say is under-regulated territory - privacy controls on Internet information."

https://www.truthout.org/1116096



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