this side effect of the war is not even part of the US conversation
Anne Applebaum
US-Israel war on Iran driving historic levels of global hunger, UN says
Conflict and cuts in funding have left World Food Programme ‘taking from the hungry to feed the starving’
The continuing US-Israel war on Iran has compounded other global disasters to drive record numbers of people into hunger at a time when funding to combat famine has fallen dramatically, the head of the UN World Food Programme has said.
The WFP says 363 million people around the world are now at risk of acute hunger, 45 million of them as a result of conflict in the Middle East and the consequent oil price spike. Continue reading...
