The Hunger Games: How Modern Imperialism Creates Famine Around the World

Countries like Yemen, Chad and South Sudan have been devastated by famine and starvation in recent years, with millions of people suffering despite a global surplus of food. But the problem is not a lack of resources – they are starving due to the effects of unending Western imperialism.

Eric Draitser
作者 Eric Draitser
A South Sudanese refugee sits on a mat outside a communal tent with his brother at the Imvepi reception center, where newly arrived refugees are processed in northern Uganda Friday, June 9, 2017. (AP/Ben Curtis)

“[Famine] seems to be the last, most dreadful resource of nature…the power of population is so superior to the power in the earth to provide subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race.” - Thomas Malthus, “Essay on Population” NEW YORK (Analysis)-- I’ve never known hunger, not in a real sense. And

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Temporary Employment And The Continuing Permanence Of Poverty

There isn’t a lot of economic wiggle-room for the low-wage American worker.

Edward Rhymes
作者 Edward Rhymes

We’ve just celebrated Labor Day and the focus -- far too little in this writer’s opinion -- is on the state the American worker, and by extension, the state of American families. It’s a very unpopular phrase among the right-leaning populace, but the situation can’t be called anything short of class warfare. When the jobs now being produced in this

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Boston Schools Begin Offering Free Breakfast, Lunch To All Students

An experimental program means families no longer have to fill out paperwork proving they can’t afford the meals.

Katie Rucke
作者 Katie Rucke

Starting this school year, Boston Public Schools will offer both a free breakfast and free lunch to all students, regardless of their ability to pay. The free meals are part of an experimental federal program the city of Boston is participating in, known as the ‘community eligibility option,’ which eliminates the need for families to fill out

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For Millions Of Americans, Bill To Cut Food Stamps Would Come At Worst Possible Time

House Republicans have introduced a bill that would cut $40 billion from the food stamps program.

Frederick Reese
作者 Frederick Reese

For one in seven Americans, the federal government’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program represents the one lifeline between them and starvation. In a stark reality that saw real wages fall across the board by 2.8 percent between 2009 and 2012, more people are hungry now than have been in the last five decades. Worse yet, real wages for

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