Image of The poor don't want charity - they want justice
The poor don't want charity - they want justice
valme.io link posted by 199 days ago in braincrave
The latest weapon of mass destruction: starvation. The situation is dire. It's the worst drought in Africa in 60 years. The UN is airlifting food to Somalia, Ethiopia, and Kenya. It's estimated th...
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Feeding the homeless banned
valme.io link posted by 204 days ago in braincrave
Meanwhile, as people in Haiti continue to starve in a country "occupied" by 10,000 aid organizations under the government umbrella of the United Nations (an organization designed for war)... They're...
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Child exploitation
editorial posted by 206 days ago in braincrave
If we are to believe UNICEF, there are about 158 million children aged 5-14 engaged in child labor, "working in hazardous situations or conditions." Most people give this a scary name like "child ex...
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Strong mind, strong soul, strong body
editorial posted by 206 days ago in braincrave
John Lennon composed and sang "Imagine... no need for greed or hunger." Billions of people starve. Death and suffering from starvation are clearly global problems for which there aren't any clear sol...
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Somalia - a case study in anarchy
editorial posted by 207 days ago in braincrave
People always claim that anarchy will never work. My response is typically "why is anarchy more radical than going into a $14 trillion debt, or starting wars that murder millions of people, or promot...
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Work: the anti-poverty tool
editorial posted by 207 days ago in braincrave
Which is better for a poor person - to be paid $3.00/hour for working or to be unemployed where the minimum wage law is $6.00/hour? Unions love minimum wage laws, and they spend millions lobbying for...
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The Wars in Our Schools
original.antiwar.com link posted by 743 days ago in politics
Ex-Army Ranger Rory Fanning is speaking to high school kids and giving free copies of his book Worth Fighting For in an attempt to counter the massive, militarized propaganda effort of JROTC pr...
Image of What happens when America's Soviet-style food banks embrace free-market economics?
What happens when America's Soviet-style food banks embrace free-market economics?
theweek.com link posted by 898 days ago in economics
Feeding America is a network of food banks that feeds more than 46 million people. In 2005, four professors at the University of Chicago helped replace their centralized distribution system with an a...
Image of TIL Chris Catrambone, a 33-year-old millionaire, swapped his million-dollar yacht for a fishing trawler and is personally funding rescue missions to save migrants. He wanted to do something with his money that's more meaningful.
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Tales from the Bizarro World
linkedin.com link posted by 1049 days ago in philosophy
Back in the 1960s, DC Comics introduced a parallel Earth called Bizarro, where everything is inverted and everyone is insane. They even have their own wacky Superman, which ends up being a formidab...