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Editorials, Opinion and Letters
This editorial cartoon first appeared in OtherWords.org
The school lunch barometer--the number of children eligible for free/low cost meals has risen 17 percent due to hard times for their parents New York Times December 29, 2011
It is official: Busan heralds the dismantling of the aid industry Yash Tandon Pambazuka News December 13, 2011 See the Busan High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness website
Angola: Diamonds are a girl’s best friend Rafael Marques de Morais Pambazuka News December 15, 2011
Class matters. Why won’t we admit it? Helen F. Ladd and Edward B. Fiske New York Times December 12, 2011
Foreign energy policy fuels famine in Africa Oakland Institute Pambazuka News December 8, 2011
Seven billion and rising Walden Bello Foreign Policy In Focus November 3, 2011
Beyond our town Dan Shaughnessy Blue Ridge Leader November 2, 2011
Food system pays dearly as Wall Street occupies Washington. It's nearly impossible to find a legislative or regulatory issue related to food and agriculture that hasn't been deeply shaped (if not outright written) by corporate lobbyists. Ben Lilliston Other Words October 24, 2011
NAFTA is starving Mexico Laura Carlsen Foreign Policy In Focus October 20, 2011
Protestors aganist Wall Street New York Times October 8, 2011
The new scramble for Africa Conn Hallinan Foreign Policy In Focus September 14, 2011
The cost of inaction against unemployment New York Times September 13, 2011
The new resentment of the poor New York Times August 29, 2011
Fall in funding raises question mark over future of global fight against Aids: International financing for HIV programs in developing nations worldwide has fallen 10% Claire Provost Poverty Matters Blog August 19, 2011
Stop coddling the super-rich Warren E. Buffett New York Times August 14, 2011
A jobs agenda, anyone? In what can only be described as a triumph of bad policy and craven politics, Congress and the Obama administration have spent the year focused on budget cuts, as the economy has faltered and unemployment has worsened. New York Times August 14, 2011
The struggle to convert African nationalism to pan-Africanism: Taking stock of 50 years of African independence Issa Shivji Pambazuka News August 11, 2011
Starving in Somalia New York Times August 11, 2011
Top 10 culprits for Horn of Africa hunger Andrew Harding BBC News July 26, 2011
Isolated, vulnerable and broke Douglas S. Massey New York Times August 4, 2011
A special child Dan Shaughnessy World Hunger Education Service August 3, 2011
When wealth breeds rage John Githongo New York Times July 23, 2011
Free trade is not what Africa needs Nick Dearden Poverty Matters Blog July 19, 2011
The true cost of tomatoes Mark Bittman New York Times June 14, 2011
Timor: Where has all the aid gone? Guteriano Neves Foreign Policy In Focus June 20, 2011
The GOP's Medicare lies Jim Hightower OtherWords June 16, 2011
Game changers in global AIDS fight Wiliam Mintner Foreign Policy In Focus June 7, 2011
Ignoring family planning overseas was the worst foreign-policy mistake of the century Malcomb Potts and Martha Campbell Foreign Policy May 8, 2011
The G-8's self-serving math: wealthy countries promised to boost development aid by $50 billion a year, have fallen far short, and are now denying there is a shortfall New York Times May 24, 2011
Uganda: No democracy relies so much on the military Joe Oloka-Onyango Pambazuka News May 12, 2011
How Goldman Sachs created the food crisis Frederick Kaufman Foreign Policy April 27, 2010
What Bernanke should have said Ezra Klein Washington Post April 30, 2011
Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1% Joseph Stiglitz Vanity Fair May 2011
China's aid to Africa: Who benefits? Michael Gerson Washington Post March 28, 2011
Losing our way: "When the most powerful country ever to inhabit the earth finds it so easy to plunge into the horror of warfare but almost impossible to find adequate work for its people or to properly educate its young, it has lost its way entirely" Bob Herbert New York Times March 25, 2011
A framework for deficit reduction Robert Greenstein Center on Budget and Policy Priorities March 25, 2011
Reflections on Archbishop Romero's legacy US Catholic March 25, 2011
Successful African alternatives to corporate "green revolutions" Carol Thompson and Andrew Mushita Pambazuka News March 24, 2011
The forgotten millions: "More than three years after we entered the worst economic slump since the 1930s, a strange and disturbing thing has happened to our political discourse: Washington has lost interest in the unemployed" Paul Krugman New York Times March 17, 2011
Utah's new immigration bills: A blast from the past David Bacon In These Times March 18, 2011
Thugtatorship: The highest stage of African dictatorship Alemayehu G. Mariam Pambazuka News March 3, 2011
What if we are not broke and Republicans are just misleading us? E.J. Dionne, Jr. Washington Post March 13, 2011
How will the world feed 7 million people in the year 2000? Views from the 1960s! Mark Bittman New York Times March 8, 2011
Defective democracy: Why the Democratic senators who fled Wisconsin feel the battle over the rights of public-sector unions is so important Roger Bybee American Prospect February 22, 2011
The US military budget: On the wrong side of history Miriam Pemberton Other Words February 21, 2011
The world food crisis: Seven experts briefly give their views on causes and cures New York Times February 15, 2011 See Hunger Notes special report: The 2011 food and hunger crisis
How biofuels contribute to the food crisis Tom Searchinger Washington Post February 11, 2011 See Hunger Notes special report: The 2011 food and hunger crisis
A terrible divide between haves and have-nots in US Bob Herbert New York Times February 7, 2011
President Obama's State of the Union address is only the second time since 1948 that a Democratic president did not mention poor people or poverty Charles M. Blow New York Times January 28, 2011
Nigeria's promise, Africa's hope Chinua Achebe New York Times January 16, 2010
