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World Hunger’s position is that there are three factors causing
citizens in the most powerful nation on earth, as US politicians like to
exclaim, to be living in poverty and without decent education adequate
housing and or appropriate health care:
1. Poverty in the world.
2. The operation of the political and economic system in the United
States which has tended to keep people from poor families poor
and
3. Actual physical mental and behavioural issues among some
people who are poor All too often poor health-physiological and
psychological is a consequence of a system and not a major cause
of poverty. Read More
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How Capitalism is Destroying Democracy
An Interview With Eugene Jarecki
by
Laura Flanders
Eugene Jarecki is an author and a filmmaker. The director behind
“Freakanomics,” “The Trials of Harry Kissinger,” “Why We Fight,” and
most recently “The House I Live In.”
“The House I Live In” his documentary about the drug war leaves
one thinking that nothing will ever change, but then it did. On election
night voters in Colorado and Washington State voted to legalize
recreational marijuana and voters in California passed a ballot initiative to
end that state’s controversial mandatory minimum law, three strikes and
you’re out. Eugene Jarecki sees possibility for more and you can be a part
of it. We talked to him right after the election of 2012.
LF: The day after the election what stuck out to you? What did you
wake up feeling? Good mood? Bad mood?
EJ: It was with a guarded kind of optimism, but optimism
nonetheless. On one level you look at the presidential election: the
reelection of Barack Obama is far more significant than his original
election…. The American people by a majority are saying we’ve seen this
guy on the job in very hard times, we’ve watched him go gray on the job,