Category: International news

t’s no secret that, according to politicians and the corporate press, “food shortages” and a “food supply crises” have been on the way for a while now. They have been regularly predicted for several years.

What’s really strange is that despite its near-constant incipience, the food shortage never seems to actually arrive and is always blamed on something new.

As long ago as 2012, “scientists” were predicting that climate change and a lack of clean water would create “food shortages” that would “turn the world vegetarian by 2050”.

In 2019, UN “experts” warned that “climate change was threatening the world’s food supply”.

Later the same year, the UK was warned that they could expect a food shortage as a result of “post-Brexit chaos”.

By early March 2020 supermarkets were already “warning” that the government had been too slow to act on the coronavirus outbreak, and they might run out of food. (They never actually did).

https://off-guardian.org/2022/04/25/5-signs-they-are-creating-a-food-crisis/

India and Pakistan heatwave is ‘testing the limits of human survivability,’ expert says

People cool themselves in a canal in Lahore, Pakistan, on April 29.

A man walks on a street with several dead bodies on the ground a street in Bucha, northwest of Kyiv, after Russian forces made a “rapid retreat” from northern areas around Kyiv, on April 2. Some locals that the Kyiv Independent spoke to think that some of the civilians murdered by Russians in Kyiv Oblast could have been executed after local collaborators pointed them out. (AFP via Getty Images)

The Russian soldiers that occupied settlements in Kyiv Oblast killed over a thousand civilians.

Many people were hunted down systematically for being local political leaders, Donbas combat veterans, Territorial Defense joinees or other people of interest to the Russians.

To find them, Russian forces carried lists with people’s names and addresses. But they also made use of local informants. These collaborators helped Russian forces either track down targets, locate wealthy homes to loot or get information about Ukrainian military positions.

https://kyivindependent.com/national/ukrainian-law-enforcers-search-for-collaborators-who-helped-russians/

The Pentagon, as seen from an airplane over Washington, D.C., on February 19, 2020.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has sparked fierce political debate on the geopolitical consequences of the conflict. But less noticed and equally as important, the war has paved the way for a more sweeping militarization of what was already a global war economy mired in deep political and economic crisis. Geopolitical tensions and international conflicts may be tragic for those caught up in conflagrations such as in Ukraine — but advantageous for those seeking to legitimize expanding military and security budgets and open up new opportunities for capitalist profit-making in the face of chronic stagnation and social discontent.

https://truthout.org/articles/global-capitalism-has-become-dependent-on-war-making-to-sustain-itself/