14/03/2017
13 March 2017 – Unless the international community provides additional resources and authorities in Yemen allow aid workers access to hungry people, families in some of the war-torn country’s most food insecure areas will die, warned the head of the United Nations emergency food programme.
Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), Ertharin Cousin, during a visit to Yemen. Photo: WFP
Ertharin Cousin, the Executive Director of the UN World Food Programme (WFP), who is in Aden and Sana’a on a three-day visit, met with families struggling to feed their children and visited nutrition centres and health facilities.
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14/03/2017
With men still dominating even in countries that consider themselves progressive, the world needs more women leaders and more men standing up for gender equality, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on 13 March 2017 said.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres addresses the opening meeting of the sixty-first session of the Commission on Stats of Women (CSW). UN Photo/Rick Bajornas
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14/03/2017
By Johan Galtung*
13 March 2017 – TRANSCEND Media Service – Wikipedia has much to offer under “aging”. Highly recommended are the 10 points by the world’s oldest living man, 114, Walter Breuning.
Johan Galtung
However, older persons, like me at 86, know their own aging best.
Less trouble with “oxidant stress” as a major cause, having used anti-oxidants based on blueberry skin–no chemicals–for decades. 20,000 blood stem cells renew my blood, but they are dying. Problematic.
Rule no. 1: Keep mind and body active; maintain a good nutrition.
Obvious to counteract aging. However, equally important:
Rule no. 2: Be open to the positive sides and advantages of aging.
Bertrand Russell’s “On Being 90” in the Observer dispenses with the disadvantages as obvious, in favor of his advantage: the overview.
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13/03/2017
ROME/GENEVA, Mar 13 2017 (IPS) – Long decades of violence in the Middle East and Northern Africa, resulting from the proliferation of international and local conflicts, have strained the social fabric that once held peaceful Arab societies together, says a Geneva-based think tank promoting global dialogue.
Credit: Geneva Centre for Human Rights Advancement and Global Dialogue
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13/03/2017
Men lounging in Dire Dawa’s Chattara Market chewing khat, Ethiopia. Credit: James Jeffrey/IPS
As the hours pass they animatedly discuss economics, politics, history, life and more while chewing the leaves. The gathering is a picture of civility. But in many countries khat has a bad reputation, with it either being banned or prompting calls for it to be banned.
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11/03/2017
By Catherine Shakdam*
6 Mar, 2017 (RT)* – According to Western media, the Iranian Islamic Republic is the source of all evil in the world. Its very existence is a threat to all God-fearing, peace-loving nations, most of all the United States – this shining beacon of tolerance.
**Photo: House of Masoudieh, Tehran | Author: Kiantavakoli | Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
Ever since Iran had the audacity to proclaim itself independent within the limit of its national borders – imagine the nerve! – thus began the demonization of a nation, a system of governance, and faith.
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11/03/2017
By Uri Avery*
11/03/2017
IF SOMEONE had told me 50 years ago that the rulers of Israel, Jordan and Egypt had met in secret to make peace, I would have thought that I was dreaming.
Uri Avnery
If I had been told that the leaders of Egypt and Jordan had offered Israel complete peace in return for leaving the occupied territories, with some exchanges of territory and a token return of refugees, I would have thought that the Messiah had come. I would have started to believe in God or Allah or whoever there is up there.
Yet a few weeks ago it was disclosed that the rulers of Egypt and Jordan had indeed met in secret last year with the Prime Minister of Israel in Aqaba, the pleasant sea resort where the three states touch each other.
The two Arab leaders, acting de facto for the entire Arab world, had made this offer. Benyamin Netanyahu gave no answer and went home.
So did the Messiah.
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11/03/2017
By Robin Edward Poulton, Ph. D.*
6 March 2017 – TRANSCEND Media Service – Donald Trump’s speech to the U.S. Congress on Wednesday February 28th certainly had a different tone from his usual, irascible midnight tweets.
**Official portrait of President Donald Trump | Author/Source: White House | Public Domain
Some of the speech sounded quite similar to speeches given by previous presidents. Some of it was even boring (which is rare for Trump: he may be a horrible misogynist, but he is seldom boring).
For the first time since the November 2016 election, President Trump sounded quite “presidential” – “surprisingly presidential” said the Washington Post, which is a truly backhanded compliment. Are presidents not supposed to be “presidential” ?
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11/03/2017
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Mar 8 2017 (IPS) Last month, the United Nations declared another famine threat in Somalia due to yet another drought in the Horn of Africa.
Somalia famine of 2010-2012, camps outside Mogadishu. Credit: IPS
Important lessons must be drawn from the Somalia famine of 2010-2012, which probably killed about 258,000 people, half of whom were under-five. This was the greatest tragedy in terms of famine deaths in the 21st century, and in recent decades since the Ethiopian famine of the late 1980s.
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11/03/2017
Just back from Kenya, Yemen, South Sudan and Somalia – countries that are facing or are at risk of famine – the top United Nations humanitarian official on 10 March 2017 urged the international community for comprehensive action to save people from simply “starving to death.”
Women in Ganyiel, Unity state, South Sudan, collecting bags of food. The situation in Ganyiel is dire, with thousands of people having fled to the area from famine-stricken Leer and Mayendit counties. Photo: OCHA/Gemma Connell
“We stand at a critical point in history. Already at the beginning of the year we are facing the largest humanitarian crisis since the creation of the UN,” UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Stephen O’Brien on March 10 told the Security Council.
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