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World Hunger and starvation have reached a crisis level
by Lawrence S. Wittner 978 words Starvation is a particularly cruel and horrible way to die. Beginning with intense hunger and pain and followed by exhaustion and mental deterioration, starvation continues with the body gradually consuming its own tissues on a downward spiral toward death. The major safeguard against mass starvation around the globe is the World…
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The armed righteous
by Robert C. Koehler ?683 wordsI am in aweof the deadeye imperturbabilityof the armed righteous,who look upon the world’s sufferingand see targets. . . . This is a fragment of a poem (“Vigil”) I wrote 25 years ago, in response to the “vigil” some gun-rights advocates held in front of a school in Columbine, Colorado, while…
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Trump’s Bromance Dream Undermines Relations with South Korea
by Mel Gurtov 469 words A South Korean Peace Initiative Likely to Go Nowhere South Korean’s President Lee Jae Myung used the occasion of the country’s Liberation Day, which marks the end of Japan’s colonial rule, to propose to North Korea that the two Koreas officially end the state of war between them that has…