Archive for July 25th, 2015

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25/07/2015

70 Years After the Bombs Dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Canada’s Gift to Japan

Human Wrongs Watch

By Theresa Wolfwood*

23 July 2105 – TRANSCEND Media Service – British pilot Leonard Cheshire, on board the plane with that bomb dropped on Nagasaki described the bombing as, “Obscene in its greedy clawing at the earth, swelling as if with its regurgitation of all the life that it had consumed.”

**Photograph of the Fat Man atomic bomb replica found in the Wright-Patterson Air Force Museum tour. | Author: QuartzMMN | Wikimedia Commons

**Photograph of the Fat Man atomic bomb replica found in the Wright-Patterson Air Force Museum tour. | Author: QuartzMMN | Wikimedia Commons

200 thousand people died immediately and within days of these bombings; 70 years later people continue to die from the radiation effects of these toxic bombs. Canada was complicit in this tragedy and continues to be complicit in nuclear weapons production.

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25/07/2015

Sheldon’s Stooges

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By Uri Avnery*

25 July 2015

Uri Avnery

Uri Avnery

IN JAPAN in the good old days, Binyamin Netanyahu would by now have committed hara-kiri.

In England at that time, the monarch would have appointed him governor of the most remote little island in the Pacific Ocean.

In Israel, his popularity rating is bound to go up.

Because in our country, the old adage is getting a new twist: Nothing Succeeds Like Failure.

AND WHAT a failure! Wow!!!

He has practically declared war on the President of the United States, the Leader of the Free World, the Supreme Protector of the Jewish State.

Not so long ago, one would have thought this impossible. But nothing is impossible for Binyamin Netanyahu.

For anyone just arrived from the planet Mars, here is a brief summary of Israel’s dependence on the US: it gets from it the bulk of its heavy arms and does not have to pay for them, it can depend on it to veto all UN Security Council resolutions that condemn Israel’s deeds and misdeeds, it receives from it billions of dollars every year although the Israeli economy is flourishing.

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25/07/2015

‘We Should Be Outraged’ More Not Being Done to End Violence against Children in Conflict’

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Millions of children around the world are caught up in adults’ wars, declared the head of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on 24 July 2015, marking the 10th anniversary of a UN Security Council resolution that established a monitoring and reporting mechanism on the use of child soldiers with a strong call for accountability and robust measures to end all “horrors” children face.

Suffering displacement, injury and even death, children continue to bear unacceptable consequences of the recent escalation of violence between Israel and Gaza. Photo: UNICEF/NYHQ2014-1012/D'Aki

Suffering displacement, injury and even death, children continue to bear unacceptable consequences of the recent escalation of violence between Israel and Gaza. Photo: UNICEF/NYHQ2014-1012/D’Aki

In a statement, UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake said that today, millions of children are deliberately killed, injured, raped, abducted.

Their schools and homes are being destroyed; they are being denied food, water and health care. Tens of thousands are forced to join armed forces and groups.

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25/07/2015

The Need for a New Economic System – PART I : Limits to Growth

Human Wrongs Watch

By John Scales Avery*

25 July 2015

Introduction: The need for reform

The Industrial Revolution marked the start of massive human use of fossil fuels. The stored energy from several hundred million years of plant growth began to be used at roughly a million times the rate at which it had been formed. The effect on human society was like that of a narcotic.

**Coalbrookdale by Night by Philip James de Loutherbourg, painted 1801. This shows Madeley Wood (or Bedlam) Furnaces, which belonged to the Coalbrookdale Company from 1776 to 1796. | Depicted place: Madeley Wood Furnaces, Coalbrookdale | Wikimedia Commons

**Coalbrookdale by Night by Philip James de Loutherbourg, painted 1801. This shows Madeley Wood (or Bedlam) Furnaces, which belonged to the Coalbrookdale Company from 1776 to 1796. | Depicted place: Madeley Wood Furnaces, Coalbrookdale | Wikimedia Commons

There was a euphoric (and totally unsustainable) surge of growth of both population and industrial production.

Meanwhile, the carbon released into the atmosphere from the burning of fossil fuels began to duplicate the conditions which led to the 5 geologically-observed mass extinctions, during each of which more than half of all living species disappeared forever.

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25/07/2015

The Hidden Truth Behind the Greek Drama

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By Roberto Savio*

San Salvador, Bahamas, 24  July 2015

Greece was the civilization where drama and farce were established as forms of theatre. The negotiations with the Eurozone were a drama for the Greek people, and a farce for the European leaders. In fact, it is a dramatic for all, that this brings to an end of the most radical dream after the Second World War.

Roberto Savio

Roberto Savio

Let us see why. It will be a little long, but without examining a little history it is impossible to understand how we came to this situation.

The Media have been presenting the German-led diktat to Greece, as a cultural difference, between the hard working ant and the irresponsible grasshopper, from the Aesop’s tales, plus the work ethics of the Protestant north versus the Catholic south (Greeks are orthodox Catholics). Those are realities, but this leaves out important truths.

First of all, let’s recall that the euro was a political design, not an economic project. It came out of an agreement hashed out between Mitterrand and Kohl.

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