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The diaries of a British reporter who risked his reputation to expose the horrors of Stalin's murderous famine in Ukraine were put on public display for the first time Friday.
Russia issued a DVD and a thick book of historical documents on Wednesday to dispute claims that the Ukrainian famine of the 1930s amounted to genocide.
Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday prayed that no political ideology would ever again cost people their freedom and dignity, as he recalled the millions who died from famine in Ukraine and other Soviet regions under dictator Josef Stalin.
Church bells tolled, candles flickered under falling snow and national flags, adorned with black ribbons, flew in the Ukrainian capital Kiev Saturday as the country marked the anniversary of the start of a Soviet-era famine that killed millions.
At least 26 prisoners have died of hunger in a prison in Congo since the beginning of the year, U.N. officials said.
Ukraine plans to open a formal investigation into a Soviet-era famine that killed millions of people to see if it can prove the famine was an act of genocide.
North Koreans are dying because of food shortages in rural areas, and a massive famine is just a matter of time, a South Korean aid group said Friday.
The 1930s famine that killed millions of peasants, mainly in Soviet Ukraine, should not be considered genocide, Russia's lawmakers said in a resolution Wednesday.
Holding candles, thousands of people from all over Ukraine gathered Saturday on a square in Kiev to mourn the millions who died of starvation during a famine engineered by the Soviet authorities 75 years ago.
After authorities broke into Yakiv Atamanenko's home in autumn of 1932 and confiscated the family's food, his mother and two brothers died of starvation and their bloated bodies were tossed among others in a freshly dug grave on the outskirts of this farming village.
In tough times, a parent’s best bet for passing on their genes could be to reduce the care they give to their children, according to a provocative theory. Now new research seems to suggest this actually happens.
The Pilgrims, Famine, and the End of FeudalismThe Pilgrims' contract [iii] with their financial backers, the London Merchant Adventurers Company, included conditions of seven years of joint stock and partnership and communal property, followed by a division and release from obligations,
On Thinner Ice: Melting Glaciers Spell Looming Disaster for WorldGlobal warming is melting 18,000 Himalayan glaciers, the largest concentration of glaciers outside the polar ice sheets. Their melting spells trouble for not only 2 billion Asians but the whole world.
BBC News - Newsnight - Defector tells of life in North Korean armyNewsnight has spoken to two North Korean defectors about life inside the secretive Stalinist state, one of whom says that he was an anti-tank battalion commander in North Korea's army before fleeing.
Ethiopia Asks for Urgent Food Aid"The Ethiopian government has asked the international community for emergency food aid for 6.2 million people."
On a strong level, I feel the troubles coming. I have been preaching this on the streets, that the time is closing,and I don't mean in general, I mean in the spirit, I feel it. If we are not ready, we will be caught in the attacks yet to come.
World's hungry reach more than 1 billion in '09: U.N.A combination of the food crisis and the global economic downturn has pushed more than 1 billion people into hunger in 2009, U.N.
Global Warming Wars: Water will become more precious than OilWater will become more valuable than oil in just a few decades and water scarcity will likely replace oil as the commodity future wars will be fought over.
North Korea starving in silenceWith no machines and all the livestock eaten, quiet lingers in rural areas of nation where 8.7 million face hunger [...]
SWATS (Scientifically Wild Ass Theories) for today….I read this acronym on one of my various google hopping information gathering sessions. It made me giggle, and then think of one of the SWATS I have been kicking around lately.
How to Save Fruit and Vegetable Biodiversity? Just Eat It.An alarmingly few varieties of our most crucial crops still exist in the world today, and biodiversity could help us ward off the next famine.
Late Blight -- Irish Potato Famine Fungus -- Attacks U.S. Northeast Gardens And Farms Hard"Home gardeners beware: This year, late blight -- a destructive infectious disease that caused the Irish potato famine in the 1840s -- is killing tomato and potato plants in gardens and on commercial farms in the eastern United States.
Silk Road threatened by melting glaciers - environment - 14 June 2009 - New ScientistThe Chinese gateway to the ancient Silk Road is being flooded – and the culprit, researchers say, is climate change.
My friends, we have all been misled, duped, hoodwinked even. While we fight our imagined enemies, the real enemy has infiltrated our society to the extent that our most secret sanctuaries are open to them, and our most intimate secrets laid bare.
Headlines Africa - Combating effects of drought in Northern KenyaLife is a constant struggle for the nomadic Turkana people of northern Kenya. This remote, vast and impoverished region has suffered severely from drought in recent years.
Forsyth, Georgia – A Spiritual Plea to All Over the past several days I have been encountering the evil that traps us all when we stop doing what our Lord commands us to do: "Hear O Israel! The Lord your God is the one and only Lord.
Laughing at the apocalypse with the dire Dr. DyerDuring the George W. Bush administration, which never took global warming seriously, the generals had to hide their growing obsession with climate. So they began to farm out their work to institutes and then translated the findings into what they love to do: create war games.
Slowly, Ukraine retells story of great famineThe other day, as he stood before a new memorial to the victims of the famine, he recalled his decision as one turning point in a movement, lasting decades, to unearth the truth about that period.
March 13 -- The ruling bourgeoisie of the former Soviet republics, threatened by the world capitalist crisis and the rising tide of political consciousness amongst the working classes, are unloading the usual arsenal of lies, disinformation and propaganda to slander the legacy of …
Books of The Times - Peter Singerâ??s â??Life You Can Saveâ?? Explores World Poverty - Review - NYTimes.comAre you a good person? Skip to next paragraph Derek Goodwin Peter Singer THE LIFE YOU CAN SAVE Acting Now to End World Poverty By Peter Singer 206 pages. Random House.
Kenya: Activists Beaten and ArrestedOn February 18, 2009, three Kenyan activists were arrested and beaten by the Kenyan police after peacefully standing outside Parliament.
The Geopolitics of Food ScarcityIn some countries social order has already begun to break down in the face of soaring food prices and spreading hunger. Could the worldwide food crisis portend the collapse of global civilization?
Worldwide DroughtThe countries that make up two thirds of the world's agricultural output are experiencing drought conditions. [...] The world is heading for a drop in agricultural production of 20 to 40 percent, depending on the severity and length of the current global droughts.
DJIBOUTI: Global food crisis adding to shortagesDjibouti, in Africa's horn, is one of the country that I could come up with when asked to name the countries in Africa, so this news caught my eye.
Revelations about the octuplet's mother, Nadya Suleman, become ever more bizarre as the story unfolds. Her publicists promised we'd like her better after we heard her speak. They were wrong.
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