14/06/2015
By Uri Avnery*
13/06/15
BINYAMIN NETANYAHU was racking his brain. His whole career is based on fear mongering. Since Jews have lived in fear for millennia, it is easy to invoke it. They are addicts.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel addresses the General Assembly. UN Photo/J Carrier
For years now, Netanyahu has built his career on fear of the Iranian Nuclear Bomb. The Iranians are crazy people. Once they have the Bomb, they will drop it on Israel, even if Israel’s nuclear second strike will certainly annihilate Iran with its thousands of years of civilization.
But Netanyahu saw with growing anxiety that the Iranian threat was losing its edge. The US, so it seems, is about to reach an agreement with Iran, which will prevent it from achieving the Bomb. Even Sheldon the Great cannot prevent the agreement. What to do?
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14/06/2015
By John Scales Avery*
15 June 2015 – Exponential growth of any quantity with time has some remarkable characteristics, which we ought to try to understand better, since this understanding will help us to predict the future. The knowledge will also show us the tasks which history has given to our generation. We must perform them with urgency in order to create a future in which our descendants will be able to survive.
**Map showing where natural disasters caused/aggravated by global warming may occur. | Author: KVDP | Wikimedia Commons
If any quantity, for example population, industrial production or indebtedness, is growing at the rate of 3% per year, it will double in 23.1 years; if it is growing at the rate of 4% per year, the doubling time is 17.3 years.
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14/06/2015
By Dr Helen Caldicott*
11 June 2015 (RT)* – Current US and Russian war games at a time of serious international tension are very dangerous and someone’s mistake or a computer error could push the world over the brink into a nuclear war, claimed Dr. Helen Caldicott to RT.
Source: International Campain to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)
UK Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond claims the UK could deploy US nuclear missiles as a response to increased “levels of activity both by Russian forces and by Russian-controlled separatist forces” in Ukraine. Hammond added Russia needs to get “a clear signal” that “we will not allow them to transgress our red lines.”
Nevertheless, the UK hosting US nuclear missiles still remains a distant prospect.
For more on this RT asked pediatrician Dr. Helen Caldicott, founding president of Physicians for Social Responsibility and president of the Helen Caldicott Foundation for a Nuclear Free Future.
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13/06/2015
Some 400 million people do not have access to health services and 6 per cent of people in low- and middle-income countries are tipped into or pushed further into extreme poverty because of the high cost of health spending, according to a report released on 12 June 2015 by the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) and World Bank Group.
Accurate and timely health data are the foundation to improving public health, says Dr. Margaret Chan, WHO Director-General. Illustration: The World Bank Photo: WHO/S. Cumberlan
“The world’s most disadvantaged people are missing out on even the most basic services,” Dr. Marie-Paule Kieny, WHO Assistant Director-General, Health Systems and Innovation, said in a joint WHO/World Bank press release.*
“A commitment to equity is at the heart of universal health coverage,” continued Dr. Kieny.
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13/06/2015
12 June 2015 – The United Nations has announced it is marking the 2015 edition of the World Day Against Child Labour with a call for the international community to invest in quality education as a key step in the fight against child employment – a scourge that consumes over one hundred million children worldwide.
Child labour in Myanmar. Photo: ILO/Marcel Crozet
According to data from the UN’s International Labour Organization (ILO), an estimated 168 million children around the world between the ages of five and 14 work, many full-time and more than half in conditions deemed hazardous to their health, keeping them out of school and ensuring that their hopes for a more prosperous future remain unrealized.
“As things stand, the aspirations of many parents for their children and of children themselves for a decent education will remain unfulfilled dreams,” ILO Director-General Guy Ryder confirmed in his statement for the Day.
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13/06/2015
A new global standard aimed at lifting hundreds of millions of workers out of the informal economy and into regularized employment was adopted on 12 June 2015 in a move the United Nations International Labour Organization (ILO) has labelled as “historic.”
Informal traders at the Wynberg Taxi rank in Cape Town, South Africa. Photo: World Bank/John Hogg
The Recommendation – the first ever international labour standard designed to tackle the informal economy – was passed by 484 votes in favor and received “outstanding support” from the ILO’s so-called tripartite constituents, according to the UN agency, which added that the document acknowledges that most people enter the informal economy “not by choice but due to a lack of opportunities.”*
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12/06/2015
11 June 2015 (RT)* – President Barack Obama is an “opportunist” with “awful” policies, one of the world’s top intellectuals, American linguist Noam Chomsky, has said. He was extremely critical of Obama’s use of drones in the Middle East and the secretive TPP trade deals.
Source: commons.wikimedia.org
“I’m not one of those who was disillusioned,” the 86-year old author and political activist said in an interview with the WND website. Chomsky said he wasn’t disappointed in President Barack Obama, as he simply “didn’t expect anything” of him.
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12/06/2015
By Dawn Bickett*
9 June, 2015 – The Amazon rainforest is the largest on earth. Its biodiversity is unparalleled, it is crucial to the stability of the global climate, and it is home to many indigenous peoples. But for its immense size and importance, the Amazon is also incredibly vulnerable. In the past three decades alone, human activity has destroyed an area of Brazilian Amazon roughly the size of Germany.
Photo: Greenpeace/Daniel Beltra
Brazilian authorities have some systems in place, supposedly to help stem the tide of destruction. But a new investigation from Greenpeace Brazil shows just how woefully inadequate the enforcement of these measures are when it comes to stopping illegal logging of Amazon timber.
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12/06/2015
11 June 2015 – The Mediterranean region is undergoing a “nutrition transition” away from its traditional diet, long revered as a model for healthy living and sustainable food systems and known for preserving the environment and empowering local producers, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has warned.
The Mediterranean diet’s focus on vegetable oil, cereals, vegetables and pulses, and moderate intake of fish and meat, has been associated with long and healthy living. Photo: FAO/Ami Vitale
Such is the finding of a new report presented on 11 June at EXPO Milano by the FAO and the International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies (CIHEAM), a group of 13 countries cooperating in the fields of agriculture, food, fisheries and rural territories in the region.*
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12/06/2015
Geneva – The head of the International Labour Organization on 11 June 2015 opened a summit meeting devoted to tackling climate change as a unique opportunity for job creation and economic growth, saying that up to 60 million jobs can be created in a greener, low carbon economy if the right policies are adopted.
Climate change poses a threat to survival in the Southwest Pacific, and in most of the small islands around the globe. Photo: FAO/Sue Price
“Inaction on climate change now will cost us all in the future,” ILO Director-General Guy Ryder said in his keynote address to the World of Work Summit taking place during the International Labour Conference, bringing together the agency’s member States at its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.*
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