{"id":156361,"date":"2020-03-16T12:00:53","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T12:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=156361"},"modified":"2020-12-02T10:26:26","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T10:26:26","slug":"a-pandemic-is-declared-but-not-for-the-starving-the-preventable-sick-the-blockaded-the-bombed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2020\/03\/a-pandemic-is-declared-but-not-for-the-starving-the-preventable-sick-the-blockaded-the-bombed\/","title":{"rendered":"A Pandemic Is Declared, but Not for the Starving, the Preventable Sick, the Blockaded, the Bombed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"title-photo\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/coronavirus-china-1.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-156363\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/coronavirus-china-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"470\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/coronavirus-china-1.jpg 470w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/coronavirus-china-1-300x228.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><em>12 Mar 2020<\/em> &#8211; A pandemic has been declared, but not for the 24,600 who die every day from unnecessary starvation, and not for 3,000 children who die every day from preventable malaria, and not for the 10,000 people who die every day because they are denied publicly-funded healthcare, and not for the hundreds of Venezuelans and Iranians who die every day because America&#8217;s blockade denies them life-saving medicines, and not for the hundreds of mostly children bombed or starved to death every day in Yemen, in a war supplied and kept going, profitably, by America and Britain. Before you panic, consider them.<\/p>\n<p><em>_________________________________________________<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/john-pilger-e1582189643995.png\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-140193\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/john-pilger-e1582189643995.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"141\" \/><\/a><\/em><em>John Pilger has won an Emmy and a BAFTA for his documentaries, which have also won numerous US and European awards. His articles appear worldwide in newspapers such as <\/em>The Guardian, The Independent, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Mail &amp; Guardian (<em>South Africa<\/em>), Aftonbladet (<em>Sweden<\/em>), Il Manifesto <em>(Italy). He writes a regular column for the <\/em>New Statesman<em>, London. In 2003, he was awarded the prestigious Sophie Prize for \u201930 years of exposing injustice and promoting human rights.\u2019 In 2009 he was awarded the Sydney Peace Prize. His earlier film is <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/johnpilger.com\/videos\/the-war-you-dont-see-trailer\" >The War You Don\u2019t See<\/a><em> (2010). His new film,<\/em> The Coming War on China, <em>is available in the U.S. from <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bullfrogfilms.com\/\" >www.bullfrogfilms.com<\/a>. He can be reached through his website <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.johnpilger.com\/\" >www.johnpilger.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/johnpilger.com\/articles\/a-pandemic-is-declared-but-not-for-the-starving-the-preventable-sick-the-blockaded-the-bombed\" >Go to Original \u2013 johnpilger.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>12 Mar 2020 &#8211; A pandemic has been declared, but not for the 24,600 who die every day from unnecessary starvation, and not for 3,000 children who die every day from preventable malaria, and not for the 10,000 people who die every day because they are denied publicly-funded healthcare, and not for the hundreds of Venezuelans and Iranians who die every day because America&#8217;s blockade denies them life-saving medicines, and not for the hundreds of mostly children bombed or starved to death every day in Yemen, in a war supplied and kept going, profitably, by America and Britain. Before you panic, consider them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":140193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2236],"tags":[1829,1392,1864,985],"class_list":["post-156361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid19-coronavirus","tag-coronavirus","tag-john-pilger","tag-pandemic","tag-social-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}