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A President’s Vendetta Left Millions to Starve
The FEWS NET Tragedy
In the silent caverns of cyberspace, there once thrived a library unlike any other. Its shelves held not books, but pixels. Billions of them woven into prophecies of drought, flood, and famine.
The Famine Early Warning System Network (FEWS NET) was a modern-day Delphic oracle. Its algorithms whisper secrets to those who dared listen.
By 2025, it had staved off countless disasters, as its servers hum with the quiet urgency of a heartbeat. Then, a man with a signature and a vendetta against truth pulled the plug.
The disappearance began at dawn on January 21, 2025. One by one, FEWS NET’s portals blinked out. It was a digital rapture.
Satellite maps of Ethiopia’s withering sorghum fields? Gone. Rainfall projections for the Sahel? Erased.
The FEWS NET Data Explorer, a tool that once let aid workers predict hunger six months in advance, now greeted visitors with a mocking 404 Error.
It was like watching fire consume the Library of Alexandria. Except the arsonist was the U.S. government, and the ashes were lives.
The Trump administration’s executive order of “Prioritize America First Aid Policy” was a masterclass in bureaucratic violence.
