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Meanwhile, European top diplomatic, legal and juridical experts have been working round the clock to find the best possible ‘politically-correct’ make-up to covert a new draft, camouflaging the one that the European Union leaders reached with Turkey during their March 7 summit in the Belgium capital.
15 March 2016
I would like to make some of the my books and articles on peace more easily available, and so I have made a collection of links to the ones that are on the Internet. Let me explain my motivation in writing. Our present situation is this:
**”The Blue Marble” is a famous photograph of the Earth taken on December 7, 1972, by the crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft en route to the Moon at a distance of about 29,000 kilometres (18,000 mi). It shows Africa, Antarctica, and the Arabian Peninsula. | Photographer: NASA/Apollo 17 crew; taken by either Harrison Schmitt or Ron Evans | This work is in the public domain because it was published in the United States between 1923 and 1977 and without a copyright notice. | Wikimedia Commons
The future looks extremely dark because of human folly, especially the long-term future. The greatest threats are catastrophic climate change and thermonuclear war, but a large-scale global famine also has to be considered.
By Robert J. Burrowes*
15 March 2016
If you have ever wondered why the global elite hoards their wealth instead of using it to help break down the violence and injustice in our world, I would like to suggest an answer to your question: self-hatred.
Robert J. Burrowes
If you have ever wondered why weapons manufacturers make weapons to kill other living beings and destroy the Earth, I would like to suggest an answer to your question: self-hatred.
If you have ever wondered why politicians serve elite interests, I would like to suggest an answer to your question: self-hatred.
If you have ever wondered why a parent is violent towards their own child, I would like to suggest an answer to your question: self-hatred.
The explanation for violent and exploitative behaviors always includes self-hatred. Let me explain why.
Conscious self-hatred is an intensely unpleasant feeling to experience and, consequently, people who feel self-hatred learn to fearfully and deeply suppress their awareness of it when they are very young.
Having learned to do this, subsequent opportunities for this self-hatred to be felt are progressively more easily suppressed.
12 March 2016
HELP! I am walking into a minefield. I can’t help myself.
Uri Avnery
The minefield has a name: BDS – boycott, divestment, sanctions.
I am often asked about my attitude towards this international movement, which was started by Palestinian activists and has spread like wildfire throughout the world.
The Israeli government now considers this movement a major threat, more so, it seems to me, than Daesh or Iran. Israeli embassies all over the world are mobilized to fight it.
The main battleground is the academic world. Fanatical adherents of BDS are conducting fierce debates with equally fanatical adherents of Israel.
Both sides use experienced debaters, diverse propaganda ploys, phony arguments and outright lies. It is an ugly debate, and getting uglier.
BEFORE EXPRESSING my own attitude, I would like to clear the ground. What is it all about?
Alfaz, Spain, 14 March 2016 – TRANSCEND Media Service – At the two ends of the Mediterranean very similar wars are fought against two Arab-Muslim peoples: Palestinians in Palestine-a former English colony-since 1948, and Sahrawis in Western Sahara-former Spanish colony and still is, since 1975; when Franco was dying.
**General map of Western Sahara | Author: Kmusser | Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Generic license. | Wikimedia Commons
The aggressors are Jewish Israel and Arab Morocco and Mauritania.
Military situation: Red: Syrian Government, Yellow: Syrian Democratic Forces (Rojava), Grey: Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, White: al-Nusra Front, Green: Syrian Opposition | Author: Syria location map2.svg: User:NordNordWest | GNU Free Documentation License | Wikimedia Commons
President Ben Ali of Tunisia was ousted in January, followed by protests demanding the resignation of Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak and an armed rebellion against Muammar Gaddafi in Libya.
– “Today, there are 600 million adolescent girls with specific needs, challenges and aspirations for the future,” said the Executive Director of the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) Babatunde Osotimehin, starting off a High-Level Forum on adolescent girls.
Action for Adolescent Girls is slowly transforming the lives of adolescent girls in Udaipur district, India. © UNFPA India/Arvind Jodna
Organised by UNFPA, the meeting brought together stakeholders from civil society and the private sector to discuss the importance of investing in girls under the age of 18.
Two United Nations agencies on 14 March 2016 reiterated calls for more financial contributions to fund their work in Mauritania, where more than 450,000 people(1) are suffering from food insecurity.
At the Mbera refugee camp in Mauritania, pre-school children attend child-friendly spaces, where they benefit from recreational activities and psychosocial support. Photo: UNICEF/Agron Dragaj
Funding shortfalls are already threatening the ability of the World Food Programme (WFP) to provide essential assistance to many of the most vulnerable families. The agency suspended school-meal distributions in December, leaving over 150,000 school children from vulnerable families without the certainty of a daily meal.
New ILO study highlights huge decent work deficits for domestic workers throughout the world.
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