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The Bulletin: May 15-21, 2025
The Bulletin: May 15-21, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. Pharaohs to AI: The Long Ascent of the Superorganism | Art Berman No Economies Without Biodiversity: Why Our Markets Rely on the Complexity of Nature Wetlands Disappearing Three Times Faster than Forests | UNFCCC […]
The Mainstream Media Admits That We Are Facing “The Worst Food Crisis In Modern History”
The Mainstream Media Admits That We Are Facing “The Worst Food Crisis In Modern History” People on the other side of the planet are dropping dead from starvation right now, but most people don’t even realize that this is happening. Unfortunately, most people just assume that everything is fine and dandy. If you are one […]
A Winter of Anger
A Winter of Anger Vincent van Gogh Beach at Scheveningen in Stormy Weather 1882It is very simple: if you’d ask most citizens of whichever EU country if they are willing to risk being unable to feed and heat their children in order to support Ukraine and Zelensky, they would say NO. Hell no! But that is what […]
“The Summer Of Starvation”: Soaring Fertilizer Prices Unleash Chaos, Hunger Worldwide
“The Summer Of Starvation”: Soaring Fertilizer Prices Unleash Chaos, Hunger Worldwide One of the most pernicious consequences – if primarily for the anti-Russia west – resulting from the Ukraine war, has been the unprecedented spike in fertilizer prices which among other things, has sparked a historic surge in food prices and collapse in supply chains […]
The Shame of Global Hunger
The Shame of Global Hunger We live in a world of plenty, resource rich, financially wealthy, but despite this abundance an estimated 700 million people go hungry every day. Millions more are food insecure, meaning they may have food today, but have no idea if they will have any tomorrow or next week. Additional millions […]
Record Low Temps Up To 50 Degrees Below Normal Threaten To Absolutely Wreck The Rest Of The Harvest Season
Record Low Temps Up To 50 Degrees Below Normal Threaten To Absolutely Wreck The Rest Of The Harvest Season It isn’t supposed to be this cold in October. The official start of winter is still almost two months away, and yet the weather in much of the western half of the country right now resembles […]
Global Authorities Brace For A Worldwide Protein Shortage As “One-Quarter Of Earth’s Pigs Have Been Wiped Out”
Global Authorities Brace For A Worldwide Protein Shortage As “One-Quarter Of Earth’s Pigs Have Been Wiped Out” African Swine Fever is killing millions upon millions of pigs all over the world, and this threatens to create a crippling global shortage of protein as we head into 2020. This epidemic began in China last year, and […]
Surviving in a Venezuelan City: “You have no clue about how people really are when they are faced with hunger”
Surviving in a Venezuelan City: “You have no clue about how people really are when they are faced with hunger” Surviving in a Venezuelan city is a lot different than it is in a country retreat. Each location has its own problems and benefits. I wrote before about the dangers of rural retreats and today […]
A Collapse Update from Venezuela: Corruption, Hunger, and Crime
A Collapse Update from Venezuela: Corruption, Hunger, and Crime Editor’s Note: In this update, Jose talks about the worsening corruption, hunger, and crime in Venezuela. It’s hard to imagine, but things are still getting worse there. As we get together to feast with our families this week, please remember the people of Venezuela, where 80% of […]
The hidden cost of UK food: Is malnutrition a national scandal?
The hidden cost of UK food: Is malnutrition a national scandal? According to the WHO, world hunger is on the rise again due to conflict and climate change, after falling for the previous decade. In a report published September 2017, it estimated that 815 million people were suffering from hunger, more than one in every […]
This Region Of The World Is Being Hit By The Worst Economic Collapse It Has Ever Experienced
This Region Of The World Is Being Hit By The Worst Economic Collapse It Has Ever Experienced The ninth largest economy in the entire world is currently experiencing “its longest and deepest recession in recorded history”, and in a country right next door people are being encouraged to label their trash so that the thousands […]
Dangerous Situation: Venezuelan National Guard Assault Members Of The Press During Protests
Dangerous Situation: Venezuelan National Guard Assault Members Of The Press During Protests During Thursday’s protest over food in Caracas, chaos erupted after supermarket shoppers were told that regulated goods they had expected to be available would not be up for sale. In a sign of just how bad things have gotten, at least 19 journalists were attacked while […]
Scenes From The Venezuela Apocalypse: “Countless Wounded” After 5,000 Loot Supermarket Looking For Food
Scenes From The Venezuela Apocalypse: “Countless Wounded” After 5,000 Loot Supermarket Looking For Food Over the last several years we have documented with clockwork regularity Venezuela’s collapse into failed state status, which was cemented several weeks ago when news hit that “Venezuela had officially run out of money to print new money.” At that point […]
Land Degradation Could Create 50 Million Climate Refugees Within a Decade
Land Degradation Could Create 50 Million Climate Refugees Within a Decade Anti-desertification sand fences in Morocco. (Anderson Sady / CC BY-SA 3.0) Fifty million refugees fleeing hunger and poverty could be created in the next decade unless the world’s land degradation crisis is addressed, according to a new U.N.-backed study. The report, titled “The Value of Land,” estimates that […]
Food Security: a Hostage to Wall Street
Food Security: a Hostage to Wall Street Imperialism and the Control of Agriculture In October of last year, World Food Day celebrated ‘Family Farming: Feeding the world, caring for the earth’. According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s website, the family farming theme was chosen to raise the profile of family farming and smallholder […]
