Archive for December 4th, 2016

04/12/2016

A Humanising Perspective of Immigration Is Possible … and Urgent

Human Wrongs Watch

By Juana Pérez Montero*

Ceuta, Spain (Pressenza)*  Pressenza editor and reporter presented the following communication with the title “Immigration in the media from a perspective of peace and nonviolence” during the VII International Congress on Immigration, Interculturality and Coexistence in the autonomous city of Ceuta.
A humanising perspective of immigration is possible… and urgent

Juana Pérez Montero during her presentation | Photo: Antonio Sempere, Pressenza

Before we start, we would like to make clear that we will not be speaking as “objective” journalists, as we do not believe that such a thing exists. We know that this idea of objectivity that they teach us at journalism school does not exist – and not just because we might have to work with our employer’s best interests in mind, but because we ourselves are subjects.

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04/12/2016

Will 2017 See End of US Neocons’ Promotion of Chaos Theory?

Human Wrongs Watch

3 December 2016 (RT) – For 25 years, from Afghanistan to Syria, we’ve seen the chaos promoted by Washington neocons. Trump will hopefully be an assertive defender of US interests rather than an assertive meddler, says Oxford Crisis Research Institute Director Mark Almond.
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**Car bombs hit the central Saadallah al-Jabiri square in Aleppo.[1] | Author: Zyzzzzzy | Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.

In Syria, residential areas in government-held western Aleppo have been under constant shelling from terrorists and rebel militants, with thousands of civilians seeking refuge in government-controlled areas. Tens of thousands have already escaped.

Even those in liberated areas still suffer from a lack of basic necessities, but the UN is holding back from dispatching humanitarian crews to the war-torn city.

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