Archive for December 14th, 2015

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14/12/2015

Silence, Please! A New Middle East Is in the Making

Human Wrongs Watch

By Baher Kamal*

Egyptian born, Spanish national secular journalist, Baher Kamal, comments on the current Middle East situation and its future. Read The Over-Written, Under-ReportedMiddle East – Part I: Of Arabs and Muslims and Middle East Part II – 99.5 Years of (Imposed) Solitude

Rice_Special_Briefing_on_Mideast_Peace**[Condolezza] Rice Special Briefing on Mideast Peace”. Licensed under Public Domain via Commons (More details at bottom of article) 

MADRID, 15 December 2015 (IPS) – When, in June 2006, former US National Security adviser and, later on, Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, spelled out the George W. Bush administration new, magic doctrine for the Middle East, tons of ink was poured and millions of words said in a harsh attempt to speculate with what she really did mean by what she called “Creative Chaos.”

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14/12/2015

‘State of climate emergency: Ecosystems are going to collapse’

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13 December 2015 (RT)* – Following the release of the ‘Paris Agreement,’ a document signed by 195 nations to fight climate change, Jagoda Munic, Chairperson of Friends of the Earth International, says the legislation will fail to reduce global temperatures.
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**Image: A freshwater ecosystem in Gran Canaria, an island of the Canary Islands. | Eckhard Jakob at the German language Wikipedia | Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. | Wikimedia Commons

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After four years of negotiating the climate change pact, dubbed COP21, delegates from almost 200 countries agreed to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius.

Activists, however, say it’s not enough to save the planet from overheating.

Munic described the scene in central Paris as world leaders were putting the final touches on the historic climate change pact.

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