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Matthew Pennington Associated Press via Star Tribune [MN] 3/24/2011 WASHINGTON – The United Nations reported Thursday that more than 6 million North Koreans, about a quarter of the communist state’s population — are in urgent need of international food aid. The findings, the result of a needs assessment conducted in February and March, will add […] March 24th, 2011 | Tags: "foot and mouth" disease, famine, Sen. John Kerry | Category: Agriculture and Food Production, Human Rights, Military, North Korea, nuclear weapons, State Department, United Nations | Comments are closed
What the new book Bloodlands tells us about the nature of evil. Ron Rosenbaum Slate Magazine 2/7/2011 How much should the cannibalism count? How should we factor it into the growing historical-moral-political argument over how to compare Hitler’s and Stalin’s genocides, and the death tolls of communism and fascism in general. I know I had […] February 8th, 2011 | Tags: Adolph Hitler, cannibalism, famine, genocide, Josef Stalin, Pol Pot, Soviet Union, Timothy Snyder, Ukraine | Category: Agriculture and Food Production, Communism, Europe, History, Nazis, World War II | Comments are closed
Jack H. Barnes Confessions of a Macro Contrarian Business Insider 1/24/2011 The world is closer to a major famine today than it has been in decades. In the current era, there have been smaller cases of famine in the world such as Niger in ‘05 and again in 2010. The western African region is exposed […] January 24th, 2011 | Tags: "Great Leap Forward", El Nino, famine, La Nina, weather patterns | Category: Agriculture and Food Production, Australia, California, China, Russia, USDA | Comments are closed
Trevor Loudon New Zeal 1/15/2011 An excellent and very chilling history of the Soviet Experiment. The story of the Ukrainian “genocide by famine” is heartrending. The Soviet Story from BlueCAT on Vimeo. Update: Related video at New Zeal: Traveling down the road to serfdom: History of Socialism from Marx to Obama. […] January 14th, 2011 | Tags: 'Soviet Story', famine, genocide, Josef Stalin, Karl Marx, New Zeal, Serfdom, Soviet Union, Ukraine, Yuri N. Maltsev | Category: Agriculture and Food Production, Barack Obama, Communism, History, Socialism, Video | Comments are closed
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