10/07/2015
By Uri Avnery*
11 July 2015
EVERYBODY HAS already voiced his (or her) opinion on the Greek crisis, whether he (or she) has an opinion or not. So I feel obliged to do the same.
Uri Avnery
The crisis is immensely complicated. However, it looks to me quite simple.
The Greeks spent more than they earned. The creditors, in their incredible impertinence, want their money back. The Greeks have no money, and anyhow, their pride does not allow them to pay.
So what to do? Every commentator, from Nobel prize-winning economists to my taxi driver in Tel Aviv, has a solution. Unfortunately, no one listens to them.
Angela Merkel and Alexis Tsipras go on fighting World War II. But the relations between the two nations played a role in my family long before that.
AS A boy, my father was a pupil in a German “humanist” high school. In these schools, pupils learned Latin and ancient Greek instead of English and French.
So I heard Latin and Greek sayings before I went to school and learned Latin myself – for half a year before we fortunately left Germany for Palestine in 1933.
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10/07/2015
Months of politically motivated violence in South Sudan has left thousands dead and caused a “man-made…catastrophe,” the United Nations Security Council on 9 July 2015 declared, expressing “profound disappointment” with President Salva Kiir, former Vice-President Riek Machar and other leaders “who have put their personal ambitions ahead of the good of their country and their people.”
Women and children have suffered devastating attacks in South Sudan’s Unity State. Photo: UNICEF/South Sudan/Sebastian Rich
In a press statement noting that 9 July begins of the fourth year of independence for the world’s youngest nation, Council members stressed that political sparring between South Sudan’s key leadership has “jeopardized the foundation of this fledgling State,” and appealed for an urgent return to a political process that would end the ongoing crisis.
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10/07/2015
8 July 2015 (ILO)* – On the occasion of the conference on ‘Regulating for Decent Work’ from 8-10 July 2015, the ILO is hosting an exhibition by Bangladeshi photojournalist Ismail Ferdous.
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A female brickfield worker in Ashulia, near Dhaka, Bangladesh. With the recent boom in the construction industry, brickfields provide seasonal employment to thousands of migrant workers. © Ismail Ferdous | Source: ILO
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The photo exhibition “So we exist” tells the stories of people in unreachable communities around the world working in fields such as construction and the leather industry.
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It also depicts the aftermath of the Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh, labour migration in the Persian Gulf and modern-day slavery in Central America and South East Asia.
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10/07/2015
By Kumi Naidoo*
9 July, 2015 – Thirty years ago, groups of individuals in New Zealand were preparing to leave their families, their jobs and their homes to set off in small boats across the Pacific Ocean into a nuclear weapons testing zone. They hoped that their presence there would be enough to stop nuclear bomb tests.
Photo: Greenpeace
The French Government conducting the tests must have known it could not win against such a show of people power. So a few minutes before midnight on 10 July 1985, French secret service agents struck in Auckland harbour, New Zealand.
They bombed and sank the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior, one of the ships that was due to lead the flotilla into the nuclear test zone. The French agents murdered Fernando Pereira, a photographer and crew member.
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10/07/2015
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9 July 2015 (RT)* – By the time this article is published, the last remaining activists aboard the ‘Marianne’, part of this year’s Freedom Flotilla campaign, will have been released after being deported by Israel following their illegal imprisonment for a number of days.
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Israel intercepts & escorts Gaza flotilla flagship, RT columnist aboard | Source: RT
One of the activists on board the ‘Marianne’ was tasered when Israeli forces intercepted the ship and took control of it by force, despite claims from the Israeli authorities that the event was ‘non-violent’ and ‘uneventful’.
It’s perhaps questionable to even refer to the sequence of events as activists being ‘arrested’ culminating in their ‘deportation’ from Israel, given that the Marianne was illegally boarded in international waters, and was on a humanitarian mission.
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10/07/2015
By Elizabeth Dickinson*
ABU DHABI, 9 July 2015 (IRIN)* – As the so-called Islamic State (also known as ISIS or ISIL) has spread, part of its success has been its ability to dominate the message online, with slick propaganda helping it develop legions of fans across the globe. For now, ISIS is winning the messaging war.
Photo: I. Prickett/UNHCR | Syrian Kurdish refugees flee Kobani (file photo) | (Islamic State attack puts Kobani reconstruction at risk: IRIN)
But what if you deployed those same tools to offer a compelling counter-narrative, to lay bare, for example, the devastating humanitarian toll that the Islamists’ campaign is having on women and children in Iraq and Syria?
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10/07/2015
July 2015 (UNRWA)* – Over 50 days of hostilities, the summer 2014 conflict caused unparalleled destruction and human suffering across the Gaza Strip. Families lost their children, entire neighbourhoods were torn to the ground, and tens of thousands were left with nothing as their homes were destroyed.
Source: UNRWA
Thousands remain displaced to this day. The 2014 conflict not only shattered homes and lives – much too often it has also shattered dreams.
One year later, Gaza’s people still live in rubble, and the world has broken its promises about rebuilding the enclave.
As one person portrayed in this photo essay asks, does anyone in the world listen or care?
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10/07/2015
The exodus spawned by the four-year long Syrian conflict has now become the United Nations refugee agency’s largest crisis in almost a quarter of a century and risks deteriorating even further as fighting in the country shows no sign of abating.
A meal being prepared at the Al-Riad shelter, Aleppo, Syria. Photo: OCHA/Josephine Guerrero
In a news release issued on 9 July 2015, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) confirmed the latest figures received from the field indicating that more than 4 million Syrian refugees have fled the Middle Eastern nation since hostilities began there in March 2011.
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