{"id":27339,"date":"2019-04-16T14:40:04","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T18:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=27339"},"modified":"2019-04-16T14:58:16","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T18:58:16","slug":"which-starving-children-does-our-government-worry-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2019\/04\/16\/which-starving-children-does-our-government-worry-about\/","title":{"rendered":"Which Starving Children Does Our Government Worry About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I make this post to starkly highlight something that has been bothering me about the propaganda we are being fed about starving children.  I have not chosen images to be &#8220;fair and balanced&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The USA government is helping Saudi Arabia to fight a war in Yemen.  See the next picture from and article in <em>The Irish Times<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/news\/world\/middle-east\/more-than-one-million-children-starve-as-yemen-war-rages-1.2848336\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">More than one million children starve as Yemen war rages<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/news\/world\/middle-east\/more-than-one-million-children-starve-as-yemen-war-rages-1.2848336\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/polopoly_fs\/1.2848335.1477719213!\/image\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/box_620_330\/image.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"330\" alt=\"Starving child from Yemen.\" class=\"aligncenter size-full\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>This is a war we refuse to stop supporting.<\/p>\n<p>Now let&#8217;s move on to a war the USA wants to start to protect the starving children in Venezuela. Here is a <em>Huffington Post <\/em>article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/hundreds-of-children-in-venezuela-are-starving-to-death-nytimes-reports_n_5a380d7fe4b0fc99878dd05d\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Hundreds Of Children In Venezuela Are Starving To Death, Says New York Times Report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/hundreds-of-children-in-venezuela-are-starving-to-death-nytimes-reports_n_5a380d7fe4b0fc99878dd05d\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.huffingtonpost.com\/asset\/5a38117b1600004700c50a51.jpeg?cache=jhqu6epqbz&#038;ops=scalefit_720_noupscale\" width=\"720\" height=\"479\" alt=\"Starving children in Venezuela\" class=\"aligncenter size-full\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>I suppose it is worth pointing out that a lot of whatever starving is going on in Venezuela is caused by the 20 years of economic war that the USA has fought against Venezuela.<\/p>\n<p>If government of the USA refuses to back out of a war that is causing starvation in Yemen, but wants to start a military war in Venezuela because of lesser dire starvation in Venezuela, what is the logic or consistency of our attitude toward the two situations?<\/p>\n<p>Let me make it clear.  I am not saying that there is no need for concern about the children in Venezuela.  Exactly the opposite.  If the USA starts a war in Venezuela, the condition of the children in Venezuela will start looking more like the starving children of Yemen. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I make this post to starkly highlight something that has been bothering me about the propaganda we are being fed about starving children. I have not chosen images to be &#8220;fair and balanced&#8221;. The USA government is helping Saudi Arabia to fight a war in Yemen. See the next picture from and article in The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27339","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27339"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27347,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27339\/revisions\/27347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}