Nat Yogachandra

Yemen war - why the world is ignoring When a Thought of War Comes, Oppose It By a Stronger Thought of Peace The United Nations declared that Yemen is the largest humanitarian crisis in the world and millions are at risk of starving to death in crisis driven by war.  Yet according to a report from the International Rescue Committee (IRC) just 15 percent of Americans are even aware of the crisis.  Also a recent report from IRC suspected cholera cases have hit one million in Yemen - a country ravaged by war. The United Nations  reckons three-quarters of Yemen’s 28m people need some kind of humanitarian aid. So, why the world is ignoring the war in Yemen - one of the Arab world's poorest countries that has been devastated by a war since 2015  - and poor and innocent Yemenis, as a result, have become the pawns in the regional power-struggle between super powers in the Middle East. Unfortunately, civilians have borne the major brunt of the fighting and more than 8...

The growing income gap between the world’s richest and the poorest was again confirmed by a report published by the British charity Oxfam. The report, titled, “working for the Few,” claims that a small elite group of more than 85 individuals hold wealth equivalent to that owned by the bottom half of the world's population. The study further says that the top 1 percent have 65 times the total wealth of the bottom half of the world’s population. In the United States, America's 400 richest families have more wealth than the entire bottom 50% of the population combined and the country ranks 64th in the world in income inequality. Today U.S. income inequality has been increasing steadily since the 1970s, and now has reached high levels not seen since 1928. It is sad that in the 21st century, a relatively small percentage of humankind has immense wealth, while the majority of the world's population lives in dire poverty and misery. This imbalance exists both within n...