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A dark smoke cloud engulfs destroyed vehicles near an ongoing fire following an overnight airstrike on the Shahran oil refinery in northwestern Tehran on March 8, 2026. (Photo by AFP via Getty Images)

Trump is weaponizing climate change

Troy Farah
A boy strokes the neck of a donkey as they stand amidst rubble following overnight Israeli bombardment in the southern Gaza Strip on July 28, 2025. (AFP via Getty Images)

Children die, and the world does nothing

Henry A. Giroux
People in Gaza are starving due to aid cuts, splitting Allied responses to the crisis (Khames Alrefi / Anadolu / Getty Images)

Trump backs Israel as Gaza starves

CK Smith
In this photo taken on April 25, 2024 a farmer shows a dried up corn at a drought-stricken farm in San Antonio, Nueva Ecija. (JAM STA ROSA/AFP via Getty Images)

Climate change already changing our diet

Matthew Rozsa
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Salvadorean Samuel Fuentes, a farmer who lost his crops because of the drought, checks his corn field in the town of Usulutan, 110 km southeast from San Salvador, El Salvador on July 24, 2018. (OSCAR RIVERA/AFP via Getty Images)

Climate change is a pretext for fascism

Matthew Rozsa
People on the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing watch as a convoy of lorries carrying humanitarian aid crosses to the Gaza Strip on October 21, 2023. (MOHAMMED ASSAD/AFP via Getty Images)

How famine will impact Gaza

Clare Dix, Helen Truby - The Conversation
Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris greet as they debate for the first time during the presidential election campaign at The National Constitution Center on September 10, 2024 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Undebatable: What was left unsaid

Norman Solomon
People on the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing watch as a convoy of lorries carrying humanitarian aid crosses to the Gaza Strip on October 21, 2023. (MOHAMMED ASSAD/AFP via Getty Images)

The devastation of famine

Paul Howe - The Conversation
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People on the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing watch as a convoy of lorries carrying humanitarian aid crosses to the Gaza Strip on October 21, 2023. (MOHAMMED ASSAD/AFP via Getty Images)

In Gaza, famine is increasingly likely

Sarah Schiffling, Foteini Stavropoulou - The Conversation
Detonation of Nuclear Device (CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

What would nuclear war look like?

Matthew Rozsa
Afghan families gather at the Distribution site of WFP Special Nutritious Food to Pregnant and Lactating Mothers with Acute Malnutrition (AM PLW) and Children aged 6-59 months with moderate Acute Malnutrition (MAM children) at an Internally Displaced Camp on September 29, 2021, in the outskirt of Herat, Afghanistan. Since the Taliban retook control of Afghanistan in August 2021, the economy has suffered after the world aid funding stopped, which has created a humanitarian crisis. Most art, culture, and pastimes have been banned. The female population has also had to quit jobs and young girls after the age of 12 can no longer go to school or further education. (Marco Di Lauro/Getty Images)

Afghans face famine: Do we really care?

Julie Hollar - FAIR
James Norton in "Mr. Jones" (Samuel Goldwyn Films)

"Mr. Jones" and the Ukrainian genocide

Gary M. Kramer
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A Yemeni woman holds her child who is suffering from severe malnutrition at a hospital in the northern district of Abs in Yemen's northwestern Hajjah province on November 11, 2018. (Getty/Essa Ahmed)

Yemen remains on the precipice of famine

Vijay Prashad - Independent Media Institute
Malnourished children eat a meal at the Apanalaya Center in Mumbai, India, Oct. 9, 2012. (AP/Rafiq Maqbool)

Hunger: A grave warning to the world

Vijay Prashad - Independent Media Institute
(Getty/ Mohammed Huwais)

Blockade may dive Yemen into famine

Taylor Link
The site of an air raid that hit a funeral reception in the Arhab district, 40 kilometres north of the capital Sanaa, on February 16, 2017. (Getty/Mohammed Huwais)

Cholera epidemic

Charlie May
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The site of an air raid that hit a funeral reception in the Arhab district, 40 kilometres north of the capital Sanaa, on February 16, 2017. (Getty/Mohammed Huwais)

Is Yemen now a genocide?

Theo Horesh
FILE - In this Sunday, July 24, 2016 file photo, climate change activists carry signs as they march during a protest in downtown in Philadelphia a day before the start of the Democratic National Convention. Matthew Nisbet, a communications professor at Northeastern University, says the split with science is most visible and strident when it comes to climate change because the nature of the global problem requires communal joint action, and “for conservatives that’s especially difficult to accept.” He and other experts say climate change is more about tribalism, or who we identify with politically and socially. Liberals believe in global warming, conservatives don’t. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) (AP)

Michael T. Klare - TomDispatch.com
A drought-affected corn field is not the cause of food shortages

Famines in the 21st century?

Daniel Maxwell - The Conversation
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Rachel Norman - The Conversation
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