07/02/2016
UNITED NATIONS, 5 December 2016 (IPS) – After nine years in office, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will step down in December perhaps without achieving one of his more ambitious and elusive political goals: ensuring the entry into force of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT).
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“This year marks 20 years since it has been open for signature,” he said last week, pointing out that the recent nuclear test by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) – the fourth since 2006 — was “deeply destabilizing for regional security and seriously undermines international non-proliferation efforts.”
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07/02/2016
6 February 2016
SO NOW we have another anti-Semite. Mazal Tov (“good luck”) as we say in Hebrew.
Uri Avnery
His name is Ban Ki-moon, and he is the Secretary General of the UN. In practice, the highest international official, a kind of World Prime Minister.
He has dared to criticize the Israeli government, as well as the Palestinian Authority, for sabotaging the peace process, and thereby making Israeli-Palestinian peace almost impossible.
He emphasized that there is a world-wide consensus about the “Two-state Solution” being the only possible one.
The formulation sounded neutral, but Ban made it quite clear that almost the entire fault lies with the Israeli side. Since the Palestinians are living under a hostile occupation, there is not much they can do one way or the other.
Anyone blaming Israel for anything is, of course, a blatant anti-Semite, the latest addition to a long line, starting with Pharaoh, king of Egypt, a few thousand years ago.
I AM not criticizing Ban, except for being too soft-spoken. Perhaps that is the Korean style. If I had been – God forbid – in his place, my formulation would have been a lot sharper.
Contrary to appearances, there is no great difference between Ban and Bibi, as far as the prognosis is concerned.
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07/02/2016
6 February 2016 (RT) – A former beacon of human rights and civil liberties, Europe has become its own worst enemy, as governments exploit and engineer fears to expand their control and oversight. In this descent towards national paranoia France is leading the pack.
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© UNHCR/F.Scoppa | A young boy lights a fire outside his tent in the Grande Synthe Jungle. | UNHCR concerned about conditions in Calais and Dunkerque
Ever since terror rose its demonic face, world democracies have lived under a semi-permanent state of alert awaiting the proverbial clash of civilization, politicians, officials, and at times intellectuals, warned would inevitably take place should heads of states fail to legislate against the elusive evil of radicalization.
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07/02/2016
By John Scales Avery*
On August 6, 1945, at 8:15 in the morning, an atomic bomb was exploded in the air over the city of Hiroshima in an already-defeated Japan. The force of the explosion was equivalent to twenty thousand tons of T.N.T.. Out of a city of two hundred and fifty thousand people, almost one hundred thousand were killed by the bomb; and another hundred thousand were hurt.
No more Hiroshimas, no more Nagasakis. On 11:02 on 9 August 1945, a nuclear bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. Nearly everything around it was incinerated by a wall of heat up | Source: International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons-ICAN
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In some places, near the center of the city, people were completely vaporized, so that only their shadows on the pavement marked the places where they had been.
Many people who were not killed by the blast or by burns from the explosion, were trapped under the wreckage of their houses. Unable to move, they were burned to death in the fire which followed.
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05/02/2016
NAIROBI, 4 February 2016 (IRIN) – Security has been intense over the last few weeks in the Senegalese capital, Dakar, with police and soldiers on the streets, vehicle searches, and round-ups of alleged Islamist militants.
Photo: UN Photo/Marco Dormino/Flikr | Too many guns – a fighter with the Coalition of Azawad Movements, the main rebel coalition in northern Mali
It’s the response to the al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) attack in Burkina Faso on 15 January that left 30 people dead.
Until the assault on the Cappuccino restaurant and the Splendid Hotel, next door on Ouagadougou’s trendy Kwame Nkrumah Avenue, Burkina Faso, like Senegal, felt safe from the jihadist violence that has destabilised other countries in the region.
“We thought we were not really concerned by terrorism, that we were shielded by our armed forces and our diplomacy,” Ousmane Ouedraogo told IRIN outside his cellphone shop on Kwame Nkrumah Avenue. “But now we know we are vulnerable.”
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04/02/2016
**A plaque targeting Prime Minister David Cameron, as demonstrators protest in Oxford Street, London, 26 March 2011. Credit: Mark Ramsay | Source | Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license. | Wikimedia Commons
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04/02/2016
Rome, 4 February 2016 – We are witnessing the slow agony of the dream of European integration, disintegrating without a single demonstration occurring anywhere, among its 500 millions of citizens. It is clear that European institutions are in an existential crisis but the debate is only at intergovernmental level.
Roberto Savio
This proves clearly that European citizens do not feel close to Brussels.
Gone are the 1950s, when young people mobilized in the Youth Federalist Movement, with activists from the Federal Movement led by Altiero Spinelli, and the massive campaign for a Europe that would transcend national boundaries, a rallying theme of the intellectuals of the time.
It has been a crescendo of crisis.
First came the North-South divide, with a North that did not want to rescue the South, and made austerity a monolithic taboo, with Germany as its inflexible leader.
Greece was the chosen place to clash and win, even if its budget was just 4 percent of the whole European Union.
The front for fiscal discipline and austerity easily overran those pleading for development and growth as a priority and it alienated many of citizens caught in the fight.
Then come the East-West divide. It become clear that the countries which were under the Soviet Union, joined the EU purely for economic reasons, and did not identify with the so called European values, the basis for the founding treaties.
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04/02/2016
3 February 2016 – Just two days after declaring the official start of delayed intra-Syrian talks in Geneva to end five years of bloody warfare, the United Nations mediator suspended them for three weeks today following differences between Government and opposition delegations on the priority of humanitarian issues.
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Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura updates the press on the Intra-Syrian Geneva Talks. UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferré (file)
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“I have been asking even before issuing the invitations that there is an immediate implementation of a humanitarian initiative, even before the talks start,” UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura told journalists, citing such issues as lifting sieges and providing access for humanitarian aid to all the places which are at the moment unreachable.
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04/02/2016
By Catherine Shakdam*
3 February 2016 (RT) – Today, war refugees have become headlines onto themselves. Whether referred to as migrants or asylum seekers by a well-thinking media complex, the semantics of this new crisis nevertheless betrays a very globalist agenda – yet more engineering, yet more manipulation.
Lebanon: Newborn boy spends first winter in a warehouse
29 January 2016 (UNHCR) – Just ten days old, Syrian infant Mohammed is already experiencing the harshness of refugee life. Living with his family in a warehouse without furniture, natural light or permanent heat, he is already battling his first cold.
With war raging on in the Middle East, millions of people were forced to flee before the advances of terror.
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02/02/2016
By Johan Galtung*
Jondal-Hardanger-Norway, 1 February 2016 – TRANSCEND Media Service
Johan Galtung
Let us have a look, and see what can be done.
[1] Economies. NYSE is falling; China is consuming, with problems; the West blames China, not itself, for all.
The truth is over-reliance on one commodity, oil-gas, hitting vulnerable economies doubly.
Steep fall in price: $120-130 to $30-20, close to 1973 from $1 to $10.
Steep fall in demand for that globally toxic product; a sign of rationality (but, the other globally toxic product, derivatives for speculation?)
The currencies of oil-producers tumble. stocks fall; in Norway to the tune of half the state budget in three weeks (Finansavisen 21Jan 2016).
And over-reliance on trade with vulnerable economies.
Remedies: To become less vulnerable, through [1] more self-reliance nationally and locally, indeed for basic needs like food, [2] fully-fledged economies with primary-secondary-tertiary-quaternary (care for people and nature) sectors. Simple, sustainable rules.
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