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UN official says 7million Yemenis get food aid

The UN humanitarian chief says the World Food Program delivered emergency food to a record 7 million people across conflict-wracked Yemen in August, “helping to avert potential famine.” Mark Lowcock told a high-level event on Yemen on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly’s ministerial meeting Friday that this represents a 60 percent increase from the average of 4.4 million people who received food assistance in the first six months of the year. The increase was partially a result of much higher imports in July. Despite the delivery, Lowcock said Yemen “ is facing the world’s largest humanitarian crisis, with nearly 21 million people in need of emergency aid or protection, ” most of them children. He said the threat of famine still looms. https://www.rt.com/news/line/ Related: Saudi Arabia, US and Britain "celebrate" 900 days of slaughter in Yemen

Greece could leave the EU: why the Grexit option deserves consideration

With the Greek psyche itself the victim of a relentless shaming campaign, the idea of Greece “going it alone” begins to seem outlandish and quixotic. It is not. But it is as much tied to a revival of spirit and self-esteem as to the nuts and bolts of economic transformation. by Michael Nevradakis Part 1 Eight years into the deepest economic depression that an industrialized country has ever experienced, we are now being told that Greece is a “success story.” Having accepted the “bitter medicine” prescribed by the “troika”—the European Commission, the European Central Bank, and the International Monetary Fund—the storyline today is that Greece is on the road to recovery, firmly within the European Union and the eurozone. This narrative was recently echoed by Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras in his annual speech at the Thessaloniki Trade Fair, Greece’s equivalent to the State of the Union address. In this speech, Tsipras triumphantly declared that talk of

Gary Cohn is giving Goldman Sachs everything it ever wanted from the Trump Administration

Gary Rivlin, Michael Hudson Part 4 - THE BIG SHORT People inside Goldman Sachs were growing nervous. It was the fall of 2006 and, as Daniel Sparks, the Goldman partner overseeing the firm’s 400-person mortgage trading department, wrote in an email to several colleagues, “Subprime market getting hit hard.” The firm had lent millions to New Century, a mortgage lender dealing in the higher-risk subprime market. And now New Century was late on payments. Sparks could see that the wobbly housing market was having an impact on his department. For 10 consecutive trading days, his people had lost money. The dollar amounts were small to a behemoth like Goldman: between $5 million and $30 million a day. But the trend made Sparks jittery enough to share his concerns with the Goldman’s top executives: President Gary Cohn; David Viniar, the firm’s chief financial officer; and CEO Lloyd Blankfein. Sparks, a Cohn protégé, was running the mortgage desk that his mentor, only a few ye

Η Αριστερά και η Βενεζουέλα

του Κλάουντιο Κατς Μέρος 4ο - Η στάση της Αριστεράς Εάν η διάγνωση ότι επιδιώκεται αντιδραστικό πραξικόπημα είναι ορθή, η θέση της Αριστεράς δεν θα έπρεπε να δίνει αφορμές για διαφωνίες. Οι κατ’ εξοχήν εχθροί μας είναι η Δεξιά και ο ιμπεριαλισμός και η σύγκρουση μαζί τους πάντα αποτελεί προτεραιότητα. Αυτή η στοιχειώδης αρχή πρέπει να επιβεβαιώνεται σε κρίσιμες εποχές , όταν το προφανές μπορεί να θολώνει. Όποια κριτική κι αν ασκούσε κανείς στον Σαλβαδόρ Αλιέντε, η βασική μάχη μας ήταν ενάντια στον Πινοτσέτ. Παρόμοια, υιοθετήσαμε μια αντίστοιχη γραμμή απέναντι στους ακραίους συντηρητικούς (επονομαζόμενους «γορίλες») της Αργεντινής, το 1955, ή σ’ αυτούς που σαμποτάριζαν τους Άρμπενζ, Τορίχος και πολλές άλλες αντιιμπεριαλιστικές κυβερνήσεις στην περιοχή. Σε σχέση με τη Βενεζουέλα σήμερα, αυτή η αρχή υποδεικνύει την ανάγκη για κοινή δράση κατά της κλιμάκωσης που επιδιώκει η Δεξιά σε όλες τις παραλλαγές της. Όταν στον ορίζοντα διαφαίνεται ένα πραξικόπημα, είναι α

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