It is distressing to know that even though we live in a ‘luxury country’ there is so much hidden poverty, which is increasing, and more people have to resort to food banks.
Tag Archives: poverty
The Century Foundation: Corruption Is Strangling Iraq
Originally posted on Levant's Agora:
By Sajad Jiyad. It sounds like a Hollywood script: a network of thieves forge documents to withdraw $2.5 billion in cash from an idle government account. The money disappears into shadowy real estate purchases and foreign banks. A ringleader is apprehended as he is about to board his private…
Accident Of Birth
Originally posted on ishambhavirhyming.wordpress.blog:
Accident of Birth is a magic of our stars. If fortune hits your Zodiac its the manoeuvre of your stars or it isn’t? I think lots would agree that they didn’t get to choose the Sperm and Ovum which fused to ignite life in them….( You got chance…Huh?). Over…
Stories to read in the week of 2022 May 05-11
The Independent looking at what went on in the world from 2022 May 05-11 and looking at the Queen’s Speech and Boris Johnson abandoning British families to a life of poverty.
The Guardian’s view on the world 2nd week of May 2022
2022 May 7-14 Guardian’s view
Mix of strong demand and limited supply igniting inflation
Europe is facing sky-high prices, with many households ending up in financial difficulties. Government leaders must do something about this before it goes off the rails.
Ukraine from 2022 March 16-20
March 16 The leaders of three EU countries met with Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv on March 15 in a show of solidarity as Russian shelling continued on residential neighbourhoods in the capital. Ukraine extends martial law for another month. The Verkhovna Rada has prolonged martial law until April 25, from the initial proposed end dateContinue reading “Ukraine from 2022 March 16-20”
Gang Fascism: How Capital Weaponizes the Social Ills It Creates
Originally posted on Left of Left:
By Rainer Shea In?The Peasant War in Germany, Friedrich Engels wrote: The lumpenproletariat, this scum of the decaying elements of all classes, which establishes headquarters in all the big cities, is the worst of all possible allies. It is an absolutely venal, an absolutely brazen crew. If the French workers,…
An other trait for faith in Jesus and his God
In a previous posting we had it about people who say that religion is the cause of all the problems in the world. Others see an other trait in the behaviour of certain people who represent such religious groups, be it Christians, Muslims or others who use the name of their god to extend theirContinue reading “An other trait for faith in Jesus and his God”
Families in Afghanistan being forced to sell their children to pay off debts
Whereas while under Taliban rule in the 1990s, Afghanistan was the main safe haven and operational headquarters of international terrorist organisations, in particular al‑Qaeda, responsible for numerous barbaric terrorist attacks targeting civilians in Asia, Africa, Australia, Europe and America, and for the deadliest terrorist attack in human history on 11 September 2001 in the UnitedContinue reading “Families in Afghanistan being forced to sell their children to pay off debts”
Some View on the World 