In a situation where many people feel powerless in the face of the myriad of crises facing the century, this committee will give every individual the opportunity to contribute something to overcoming the crisis.
Argentina To Produce the Sputnik V Vaccine, the First Ibero-American Nation To Do So April 21 (EIRNS)—In an April 20 press release, the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, announced that its partner, Argentina’s Laboratorios Richmond, had produced a test batch of 21,000 doses of the Sputnik V vaccine, the first Ibero-American nation to […]
Chinese COVID-19 Vaccine Producers Plan Technology Transfers to Developing Countries April 21 (EIRNS)— Zheng Zhongwei, director of the Development Center for Medical Science and Technology of China’s National Health Commission, raised the problem yesterday that some 5 billion people in the world outside China threatened by the COVID-19 pandemic have no access to vaccines, “while […]
WFP President Beasley Signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Venezuelan Government To Address Soaring Hunger April 20, 2021 (EIRNS) – The World Food Program will begin supplying school lunches to 185,000 impoverished pre-school and special-needs students in Venezuela this year, with the goal of providing daily meals to 1.5 million children by the end […]
`Explosive Mix of Soaring Food Prices and Conflict’ Increases Hunger by a Third in West Africa April 19 (EIRNS) — The hunger situation in Africa continues to deteriorate, as relief efforts continue to be overwhelmed with new crises, and receive little help in response to their calls. In an April 16 release under the above […]
Brazil: Will the Next Coronavirus Variant Be Vaccine-Resistant? April 15, 2021 (EIRNS) – Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) sub-director Jarbas Barbosa warned in remarks this week that, if COVID-19 is not controlled across the world, there exists a worst-case scenario in which a new vaccine-resistant variant emerges. One of the likely places that could happen […]
UN Secretary-General Maintains, ‘So Far, We Have Failed’ April 13, 2021 (EIRNS)—United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres yesterday delivered a grim review of the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the related hunger, poverty, and unemployment crises, telling a gathering of the UN Economic and Social Council’s Forum on Financing for Development that “no element […]
Brazil COVID Strain Comes to the U.S. April 10 (EIRNS) — For anyone stupid enough to think that President Jair Bolsonaro is Brazil’s problem and not ours, the CDC reported yesterday that the more infectious Brazilian strain of the coronavirus is now the second most common variant in the US, after the Kent one. The […]
Portuguese Leaders Declare Vaccines a Public Good, Demand EU Invoke Emergency Powers April 10 (EIRNS)—Ninety leading citizens of Portugal issued a public appeal on April 8 for the European Union to invoke emergency powers to override market interests, and order that COVID-19 vaccine production be undertaken in any appropriate plant available, even if not owned […]
Statement from the Committee for the Coincidence of Opposites: Mozambique Project—Medical Supplies, Food Aid & Seeds for the Future April 11 (Schiller Institute) “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”—Rev. Martin […]
WFP’s Beasley Promotes ‘Hunger Ward’ Documentary on Malnutrition in Yemen April 9 (EIRNS)—A new documentary was released online today on the humanitarian crisis in Yemen, titled “Hunger Ward,” after which release World Food Program Director David Beasley and filmmaker Skye Fitzgerald, held a live discussion (see hungerward.org). The new half-hour film focuses on the terrible […]