Showing posts with label food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label food. Show all posts
Sunday, May 10, 2026

Aunt Jameela's Bread. A Story of Food, Family, and Love..... A beautiful new book by Palestinian-American Mike Odetalla about childhood and baking bread in his homeland.

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A beautiful new book by Palestinian-American Mike Odetalla about childhood, family, and homemade bread in his homeland   Auntie J...
Friday, May 1, 2026

"My suffering, though severe, was never compounded by denial. The world around me was structured to keep me alive. That distinction matters. Because elsewhere, at this very moment, there are people whose hunger is not the byproduct of illness—but the result of policy. Of decision. Of design. In Gaza, and within the walls of Israeli prisons, hunger is not incidental. It is imposed..." Hunger, By Design By Mike Odetalla

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Mike Hanini Odetalla Hunger, By Design By Mike Odetalla At the height of my cancer treatment, I lost 60 pounds in less than two months. Not ...
Wednesday, April 22, 2026

Trump wants $1.5tn for the Pentagon – and cuts to healthcare and housing. The president’s proposed $445bn increase in military spending would batter popular domestic programs as millions struggle

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In seeking a mammoth increase in military spending while cutting social programs, Trump is again showing how hollow his promises were abou...
Sunday, April 19, 2026

"We're talking about a federal administration that has spent close to $30 billion dollars killing thousands of people at a time when working class people across this country cannot afford the bare minimum," he said. "And to be told that a city-run grocery store is implausible, but spending more than $500 million a day to kill people in Iran and Lebanon is not only plausible but necessary, it speaks to a broken kind of politics." Zohran Mamdani April 17, 2026 NPR interview

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The war in Iran speaks to a "broken kind of politics" That chasm is most clear in his deep opposition to the U.S. war on Iran, ...
Friday, January 30, 2026

Israel has the obligation to ensure access to the essential supplies of daily life, including food, water, medical supplies and services, and to facilitate the work of UNRWA in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem where Israel is not entitled to exercise sovereignty...

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UNRWA @UNRWA   “The plug has been pulled on humanitarian services.    Over the past days, utility providers have severed electricity and wat...