22/11/2015
By Robert Bridge*
21 November 2015 (RT) – With every new manifestation of global terrorism, Western media outlets are dutifully serving as the mouthpiece for Islamic State, promoting its mad message and crazed claims without ever scrutinizing the group’s dubious origins.
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**Flowers and candles. People standing in a line to write condolences in front of French embassy in Moscow | 15 November 2015 | Author: Stolbovsky | Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license | Wikimedia Commons
Ever since Russia opened its bombing campaign against Islamic State forces in Syria all hell has broken loose on the planet.
On Oct. 31, a Russian Airbus was brought down by an explosive device over the Sinai Peninsula, killing 224.
On Nov. 12, a bomb exploded in Beirut, Lebanon killing dozens.
On Friday the 13th Paris was hit by a string of terrorist attacks against public venues that left 129 dead and 352 wounded.
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22/11/2015
By Richard Jackson*
21 November 2015
Watching the terrible events unfolding during and after the Paris terrorist attacks, I have a helpless sense of deja vu. It reminds me of the movie, Groundhog Day, only much more deadly and depressing. It feels like we have been here so many times before: the same anguished images, the same suffering, the same questions and sense of disbelief.
Most depressingly, listening to the rhetoric coming from Western leaders, I can’t see any way we can avoid experiencing the same day again – whether in a few months or years time.
As I explained in my book Writing the War on Terrorism (2005, Manchester University Press) about the language of counterterrorism, when the 11 September 2001 attacks occurred, President Bush said that they were “an act of war”.
This was a key rhetorical move and it led the US to launch the global war on terrorism which has caused so much suffering, violence and counter-violence.
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22/11/2015
Illegal logging in the Brazilian Amazon is vast in scale and scope – impacting both rainforest communities and crucial habitat.
These systems would help them to monitor illegal logging on their lands, as indigenous tribes all too often fall victim to uncontrolled and illegal logging practices.
That same month, a major police crackdown on one of the largest illegal timber trade networks ever made headlines around the world.
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22/11/2015
Laboratory Technician, Herbert Mtopa collects biological samples at a clinic in Zimbabwe’s Shamva District under a CultiAF project to assess exposure of women and children to aflatoxins. Credit: Busani Bafana/IPS
Aflatoxins are toxic and cancer causing poisons produced by certain green mould fungus that naturally occurs in the soil.
The poisons have become a serious contaminant of staple foods in sub-Saharan Africa including maize, cassava, sorghum, yam, rice, groundnut and cashews.
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