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Kay Bradley

Population Control, Marauder Style - NYTimes.com - 2 views

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    Compare death rates from Mideast slave trade, Famines in British India, World Wars I and II, Genghis Khan, Mao Zedong. . . at the bottom of the graphic there's a table translating figures into % of world population at the time they occurred. Astounding!
Kay Bradley

Opinion | Your Tax Dollars Help Starve Children - The New York Times - 0 views

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  • he United States is thus complicit in what some human rights experts believe are war crimes.
  • Houthi rebels who control much of Yemen,
  • Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, backed by the United States, are trying to inflict pain to gain leverage over and destabilize the Houthi rebels.
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  • The reason: The Houthis are allied with Iran.
  • The governments of Saudi Arabia and the United States don’t want you to see pictures like Yaqoob’s or reflect on the suffering in Yemen.
  • Even the survivors may suffer lifelong brain damage.
  • Yemen began to disintegrate in the aftermath of the Arab Spring, and then the Houthis, a traditional clan in the north, swept down on Sana and seized much of the country.
  • Houthis operate a police state and are hostile to uncovered women, gays and anyone bold enough to criticize them.
  • I asked President Houthi about the sarkha, the group’s slogan: “God is great! Death to America! Death to Israel! Curses on the Jews! Victory to Islam!” That didn’t seem so friendly, I said.
  • the system.”
  • When I asked about Saudi and American suggestions that the Houthis are Iranian pawns, he laughed.
  • “That’s just propaganda,”
  • But he cautions that the risk of another Somalia is real, and he estimates that there may be two million Yemenis in one fighting force or another.
  • nother danger is that the Saudi coalition will press ahead so that fighting closes the port of Hudaydah, through which most food and fuel come
  • To avert a catastrophe in Yemen, the world needs to provide more humanitarian aid. But above all, the war has to end.
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Dr. Agnes Kalibata: To reverse runaway climate change and build resilient societies we ... - 0 views

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    46% of the land in Africa is being degraded by unsustainable agricultural practices. Agriculture needs to adapt to climate change through clean energy and better irrigation to avoid widespread famine.
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