As Food Insecurity Surges, Leading Scientist Says Hunger Is a Deliberate Choice by Those in Power & Why Biden's Pick of Tom Vilsack for Agriculture Secretary Is a Missed Opportunity for the USDA & More
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Food Is the Pathway to Peace: World Food Programme Wins Nobel Peace Prize & Warns of Hunger Pandemic ([link removed])
The World Food Programme, the world's largest humanitarian organization dealing with hunger and food security, accepted the Nobel Peace Prize today, with its ... Read More → ([link removed])
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As Food Insecurity Surges, Leading Scientist Says Hunger Is a Deliberate Choice by Those in Power ([link removed])
As the World Food Programme accepts the Nobel Peace Prize, we look at the growing global hunger crisis amid the pandemic, the climate crisis and war. In the ... Read More → ([link removed])
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Why Biden's Pick of Tom Vilsack for Agriculture Secretary Is a Missed Opportunity for the USDA ([link removed])
Progressives and environmental and labor activists are objecting to President-elect Joe Biden's selection of Tom Vilsack to be his agriculture secretary, reprising the ... Read More → ([link removed])
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Law Prof: I Nominated Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed for the Nobel Peace Prize. Then He Started a Civil War ([link removed])
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2019 for ending the two-decade "state of war" between Ethiopia and Eritrea, with many ... Read More → ([link removed])


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