03/01/2016
Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) – An ecological disaster hit Brazil during the first week of November this year. The Fundão dam in the Doce River, which collects wastewater from an iron mine owned by BHP Billiton/Vale, burst and released 40-62 million m3 of polluted water.
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Source: SIWI
High levels of arsenic and other persistent pollutants now threaten food chains in the river ecosystem.
Two weeks later the pollution reached the sea where the coastal zone fauna also was damaged. 12 people have died and another eleven are still missing.
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03/01/2016
By Uri Avnery*
2 January 2016
WHEN THE State of Israel was founded, the new foreign minister, Moshe Sharett, did something that seemed quite natural. He sold his private apartment.
Uri Avnery
In his new function, he was accorded an official residence. A modest one, needless to say.
Sharett thought that it was unseemly for a public official to retain a private apartment when he was living at the public expense.
He did not keep the money he received for his private apartment. Rather, he donated it to several human rights associations – the very same that are now under fierce government attack and labeled “leftists”, a label only slightly less negative than “treasonous”.
Today, such an act would be considered insane. Why, the present Prime Minister lives in an official residence and keeps two more houses, one of which is a luxury villa in a colony of the very rich.
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02/01/2016
By Roberto Savio*
San Salvador, Bahamas, 2 January 2016 – At this time, we all wish “ a very good year”. While the wish is always a positive thing, we should also realize that we cannot expect too much from the new born year. It is loaded by so many handicaps, that we should have lot of sympathy for it…
Source: Greenpeace
It is part of a negative circle that started with the financial crisis of 2008, and that will probably conclude in 2017, a cathartic year in which elections in several key countries and other crucial appointments could open a new cycle.
Unless a republican victory in the American Elections will anticipate a global crisis of governance faster…
Here is a list of the major handicaps for 2016, which is of course a personal view: but supported by many data…
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01/01/2016
ROME, 1 January 2016 (IPS) – The appalling crisis ravaging the Middle East and striking terror around the world is a clear challenge to the West, but responses are uncoordinated. This is due on the one hand to divergent analyses of the situation, and on the other to conflicting interests.
The roots of the conflict lie primarily in the Sunni branch of orthodox Islam, and within this the fundamentalist Wahhabi sect embraced by Saudi Arabia and the Gulf monarchies generally.
Both the Islamic State (Daesh) and, earlier, Al Qaeda, arose out of Wahhabism.
The West has historic alliances with the Gulf area, but apparently nothing has been learned from the 3,000 deaths caused by the attack on the Twin Towers in New York.
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