13/12/2015
12 December, 2015 (Greenpeace) – The wheel of climate action turns slowly, but in Paris it has turned. There’s much in this deal that frustrates and disappoints me, but it still puts the fossil fuel industry squarely on the wrong side of history.
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Parts of this deal have been diluted and polluted by the people who despoil our planet, but it contains a new temperature limit of 1.5 degrees.
That single number, and the new goal of net zero emissions by the second half of this century, will cause consternation in the boardrooms of coal companies and the palaces of oil-exporting states and that is a very good thing. The transition away from fossil fuels is inevitable.
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13/12/2015
While praising the current United States administration for its commitment to women’s equality, United Nations experts on 11 December 2015 warned that the extreme polarization of US politics is “profoundly” affecting the Government’s ability to guarantee women’s human rights, and even to ratify the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women.
Marching in New York City for gender equality. Photo: UN Women/J Carrier
“The US, which is a leading State in formulating international human rights standards, is allowing its women to lag behind,” said the UN Working Group on discrimination against women in law and practice in a news release issued by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).
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13/12/2015
By John Scales Avery*
12 December 2015
WE NEED SYSTEM CHANGE, NOT CLIMATE CHANGE! Civil society, excluded from the COP21 conference by the French government, carried banners with this slogan on the streets of Paris. They did so in defiance of tear-gas-using black-clad police.
**Photo: Greenpeace’s activists and supporters participate in the Global Climate March, one day before the beginning of UNFCCC Climate Change Conference (COP21) in Paris. November 29th 2015, Madrid. | Author: OsvaldoGago | Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.| Wikimedia Commons
System change has been the motto for climate marches throughout the world. Our entire system is leading us towards disaster, and this includes both economic and governmental establishments.
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12/12/2015
10 December, 2015 (Greenpeace) – Climate change and human rights. We care about them both, but we often think of them separately. Violations of human rights we usually associate with brutal regimes, unjustified imprisonment and violence carried out between people.
“Climate change” creates images of melting glaciers, radical and unseasonal temperature changes and creeping desertification. But climate change may contribute increasingly to extreme weather events.
From events that build to a crescendo; like the cold snap in December associated with a weakened “polar vortex”, or the impacts of the current intense El Nino – to weather events that slam into us like a fist; like the hurricane that devastated New Orleans and the typhoons that repeatedly wreak havoc in the Philippines.
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11/12/2015
By John Scales Avery*
11 December 2015
We give our children loving care, but it makes no sense do so and at the same time to neglect to do all that is within our power to ensure that they and their descendants will inherit an earth in which they can survive. We also have a responsibility to all the other living organisms with which we share the gift of life.
**A freshwater aquatic and terrestrial food-web | Food web showing the organisms and their trophic levels. | Author: Thompsma | Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. | Wikimedia Commons
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10/12/2015
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Evelyn Nguleka, World Farmer’s Organisation Chief Warns the World to Look Out for Farmers at the Paris conference COP21. Credit: A. McKenzie/IPS
“The earth feeds us and farmers are responsible for feeding the world. We need to protect both,” says Nguleka, President of the Zambia National Farmers’ Union and also of the World Farmers’ Organisation (WFO), an international body of agricultural producers.
The WFO and other groups, as well as individual farmers from around the world, are in Paris to argue that a binding agreement on climate change must take agriculture into account.
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10/12/2015
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At COP21 entrance are situated the ‘Wind Trees.’ Each “aeroleaf” generates energy by harnessing the power of the wind. Credit: IISD.ca | Source: IPS
Cities are undeniably one of the key players in the global warming arena, being the leading source of greenhouse gases, of population settlements and of energy consumption, grouping three highly interconnected driving factors of global warming.
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10/12/2015
By Pepe Escobar*
9 Deceber 2015 (RT) – Turkey’s “incursion” into Iraq is a cold, calculated move. And once again, the name of the game is – what else? – Divide and Rule.
**Map of Kurdistan Autonomous Region (Kurdish Autonomous Region) in Iraq in 1975. | Author: PANONIAN | Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. | Wikimedia Commons
Turkey sent to Iraqi Kurdistan – which is part of the state of Iraq – no less than a 400-strong battalion supported by 25 M-60A3 tanks.
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10/12/2015
By Imogen Foulkes and Heba Aly*
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Geneva, 9 December 2015 (IRIN) – A US airstrike in September obliterating a hospital in Afghanistan renewed concerns about accountability in conflict. However, a proposal to strengthen compliance with the rules of war is meeting significant resistance at a conference this week of the states party to the Geneva Conventions.
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Photo: MSF | The aftermath of the US airstrike on an MSF hospital in Kunduz
A resolution, drafted by Switzerland and the International Committee of the Red Cross, proposes an annual meeting of states to review thematic and technical issues of international humanitarian law as well as voluntary self-reporting on compliance to it.
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10/12/2015
By Thomas Gaist*
10 December 2015 (WSWS) – The US Congress witnessed new heights of anti-Muslim hysteria and warmongering on Wednesday [9 December 2015], as US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter and Vice Chair of the Joint Chiefs General Paul Selva testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee about the ongoing escalation of US military operations in Iraq and Syria.
US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter | Source: PressTV
Leading US senators and top US military officials issued fervent calls for yet another round of sweeping escalations of the US air, ground and special forces operations throughout the Middle East, while invoking the prospect of future terror attacks by Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in every second breath.
Carter unveiled proposals to send Apache attack helicopters to provide close air support and military advisers for ongoing Iraqi military operations aimed at retaking the city of Ramadi.
These deployments would represent a major escalation of the US intervention, further making a mockery of President Barack Obama’s pledges against placing US boots on the ground.
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