'Unseen' News and Views – By Baher Kamal & The Like
**Locator map of Ethiopia.|UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) | Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license. | Wikimedia Commons
By Beatrice Fihn*
6 January 2016 (ICAN–International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons) – It was with great concern we heard the news that North Korea announced it carried out a successful test of its first hydrogen bomb on 6 January.
Source: ICAN-International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
While the nature and details surrounding the test are still unconfirmed, the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organisation — which has monitoring stations positioned around the world to detect illegitimate testing activities — announced that it detected a seismic event similar to the North Korean test of 2013.
By Kumaran Ira*
7 January 2016 (WSWS)* – On Monday [4 January] , the Syriza (“Coalition of the Radical Left”) government of Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras sent a draft pension reform plan to Greece’s creditors (the IMF, the ECB and the European Commission) in exchange for obtaining €5.7 billion in bailout funds. The bill is reportedly to be submitted to parliament by mid-January and will be voted into law by early February.
**Alexis Tsipras speaking on Subversive Festival 2013 in Zagreb, Croatia. | Author: Robert Crc | Free Art License. | Wikimedia Commons
The cuts mark a new milestone in the attack waged on the working class by the charlatans of Syriza.
7 January 2016 – Over the last 4 months, a record-breaking 115,000 asylum-seekers arrived in Sweden. Among them were 26,000 unaccompanied children and minors, enough to fill 1,000 school classes, Morgan Johannson, Swedish Minister for Justice and Migration, told the Brussels press yesterday (6 January).
Source: EurActiv.com
Johannson spoke at a press conference with Migration and Home Affairs Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos, Danish Immigration Minister Inger Stoejberg and Ole Schröder, Parliamentary Secretary of State at the German Federal Ministry for the Interior.
Source: RT
Two children were discovered working in an illegal clothing manufacturing facility during a police raid on a workshop in Turkey’s İzmir province.
The raid also uncovered the opportunistic aspect of the blackmarket economy where illegal manufacturing facilities make and then sell low quality equipment designed to save people’s lives.
