'Unseen' News and Views – By Baher Kamal & The Like
**Vladimir Putin during annual Q&A conference | http://www.kremlin.ru.| Wikimedia Commons
By Zamzami*
11 September, 2015 (Greenpeace)* – Smoke caused by forest fires and peatland destruction, is covering about 80% of Sumatra, Indonesia. And it seems like no matter how far you try to escape, the smoke follows.
My wife and daughter should be at our home in Pekanbaru, Riau on the east of Sumatra right now. It’s been more than a month since we moved, or rather escaped to my parent’s house in West Sumatra.
But like a dark cloud over my head I’ve since discovered that wherever I go, smoke follows.
15 September 2015 (WSWS)* – The bankruptcy of the US investment bank Lehman Brothers seven years ago today signalled a breakdown of the global capitalist economy and financial system that continues to deepen.
**Lehman Brothers Headquarters on Bankruptcy Day | New Yoork City, 15 September 2008 | Author: Robert Scoble | Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license. | Wikimedia Commons
Within hours of Lehman’s demise, it became clear this was not simply the failure of an individual bank, but the expression of a crisis engulfing the entire US and global financial system.
14 September 2015 – TRANSCEND Media Service
Peace People Press Release – 11 Sep 2015 – Today an Israeli court decided to keep nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu under house arrest for giving an Israeli media interview.
Vanunu’s appeal against house arrest in connection with this interview has been denied.
This adds to the unjust and inhuman treatment he has received for revealing in 1986 that Israel was building nuclear bombs.
He has served 18 years in prison, including eleven in solitary.
Since his release he has been a virtual prisoner within Jerusalem, unable to leave the country, use internet, speak to journalists, foreigners, etc., all actions against international law as he is a prisoner of conscience.
Maguire said,
Afghan refugee teacher Aqeela Asifi (right), named as the winner of the United Nations annual Nansen Award. During classes, she pays attention to individual students and monitors their progress. Photo: UNHCR/Sebastian Rich
LONDON, 9 September 2015 (IRIN)* – For children and young people exploited by traffickers in Southeast Asia, escape or rescue ought to put an end to their nightmare. But new research paints a grim picture of the lasting effects on their mental health.
**Photo: William Barriga/IOM | Even when freed from traffickers, children’s mental anguish often continues (file photo)
Ligia Kiss of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine led a team that investigated the psychological effects on children of trafficking in the region. “We were shocked by the numbers,” she told IRIN.
While such effects have been well-documented over the years, few, if any, previous studies have delivered such quantitative detail with regard to children and adolescents.
