55 Million People Face Famine as COVID-Ravaged Economies Fail To Meet Funding Goals

Nations the world over have scrambled to take emergency action in the wake of COVID-19, as businesses have been disrupted, supply lines cut and economies stunted, leaving foreign aid programs underfunded and millions without food.

Alan Macleod
By Alan Macleod
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More than 55 million people in seven countries are in desperate need of COVID-19-related famine relief. That is according to a new report from international charity Oxfam, entitled “Later will be too late.” The report details how 55.5 million people in seven countries — Yemen, Afghanistan, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, the Democratic Republic of the

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World Bank: Up to 150 Million More People Will Live in Extreme Poverty by 2021

The convergence of the coronavirus, combined with global conflict and climate change has put the goal of ending global poverty by 2030 virtually out of sight.

Alan Macleod
By Alan Macleod
World Bank Feature photo

A new report from the World Bank estimates that the number of people living in extreme poverty around the world will increase by between 88 and 150 million by 2021, thanks in part to the COVID-19 pandemic. This represents an increase in the number, calculated as those living on less than $1.90 per day, for the first time in 20 years, according to

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UN Venezuela Report Omits US Human Rights Violations

Beyond the bias and politicization of the report, what perhaps damns it most is how it is being used.

Leonardo Flores
By Leonardo Flores
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On September 23, María Eugenia Russián, president of Fundalatin, Venezuela’s oldest human rights organization, testified to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) and decried an attempt by a UNHRC fact-finding mission to erase people who were “lynched, burned alive, decapitated and murdered by extremist sectors of the Venezuelan opposition.” This

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Report: 56 Million Americans Depended on Food Banks During the Pandemic

Once only associated with enemy nations and the Great Depression, bread lines have returned to the US, often in form of miles-long traffic jams or car parks filled with hungry drivers.

Alan Macleod
By Alan Macleod
COVID-19 Food Banks

Amid a pandemic that has claimed the lives of over 209,000 Americans and caused widespread economic dislocation, tens of millions have been forced to rely on food banks to survive. A new report from the Pew Research Center found that 17 percent of the 13,200 people they surveyed said they had received food from a food bank or similar organization

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New Report Links Mass Extinction of Animals To Human Activity

A new report by the WWF shows that humans are overusing earth’s biocapacity by over 50%, rendering over 68% of all the world’s animal life extinct.

Alan Macleod
By Alan Macleod
mass extinction feature photo

A sobering new report from the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) lays bare the consequences that capitalist globalization has wrought on the planet. Since 1970, their research calculates, global populations of mammals, birds, fish, amphibians, and reptiles plunged by 68 percent. Just two years ago in a previous report, that number was only 60

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“Woke” Corporations Supporting Black Lives Matter Quietly Bankroll Police

A report from the Public Accountability Initiative exposes how corporate America is bankrolling police departments across the country, including many of the same ones facing scrutiny over racist practices.

MintPress News Desk
By MintPress News Desk
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JPMorgan Chase CEO Jaime Dimon very publicly took a knee outside a New York branch of his bank in early June, also circulating a memo declaring the financial institution’s supposed dedication to struggling against injustice. “Let us be clear — we are watching, listening and want every single one of you to know we are committed to fighting against

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