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Project Censored whose mission is to “teach students and the public about the role of a free press in a free society” comes up with its Top 25 Censored Stories for 2009/2010. For reasons exclusively known to them, mainstream media censored or downplayed these significant pieces of news. Here are some of them. You are free to form your own opinion [...]

They say that hunger is what separates order and anarchy. Social peace is only possible when citizens get their basic needs. Failure to provide food may spark a revolution. Food shortage is largely due not on the failure of the land to produce food but on the fact that the cost of food (cost of food production, really) has skyrocketed, making it inaccessible, [...]

One of the current pandemic fears is that there is no longer enough food to go for everybody on the planet. Economists point to the skyrocketing cost of food. ‘Between 2005 and the summer of 2008, the price of wheat and corn tripled, and the price of rice climbed fivefold, spurring food riots in nearly two dozen countries and pushing 75 million more [...]

Malnutrition in the world is progressing. According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), more than one billion people will suffer from malnutrition in 2009, against 963 million at the end of 2008. There would be a need for 30 billion euros per year to fight hunger and boost family agriculture. Just a year ago, images of food [...]