More Gulf War Veterans have died than Vietnam Veterans. This probably is news to you. But the truth has been hidden by a technicality. So here is the truth. The casualties in the Vietnam War were pretty simple to understand. If a soldier was dead from his combat tour, he […]
Day: April 1, 2023
A massive international land grab is now underway as investors and national governments buy up millions of acres of farmlands in Africa, Asia and Latin America. It amounts to an unprecedented and novel set of enclosures of worldwide land, much of it customary land that rural communities use […]
Hopes for a peaceful settlement of Yemen’s political crisis receded further on Tuesday as street battles intensified between government security forces and opposition tribesmen, leaving at least two dozen people dead and turning part of the Yemeni capital, Sana, into a war zone. Read the rest here