26/07/2017
By Uri Avnery*
22/07/2017
GEORGE SOROS, the American multi-billionaire, is causing Binyamin Netanyahu a lot of trouble.
Uri Avnery
At this particular moment, Netanyahu does not need any more trouble. A huge corruption affair, concerning German-built submarines, is rolling slowly and inexorably towards him.
Soros is a Hungarian Jew, a Holocaust survivor. The Hungarian governing party plastered his face all over Budapest with a text that barely hid its anti-Semitic intent.
Soros’ sin is his support for human rights associations in his former homeland. He does the same in Israel, though on a much smaller scale. So Netanyahu does not like him either.
This has created an awkward situation. Netanyahu was about to visit Budapest to meet his Hungarian opposite number Victor Orban, who is suspected of being a mild anti-Semite. Netanyahu considers him a right-wing soul-mate.
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26/07/2017
PENANG, Malaysia, Jul 22 2017 (IPS) – The Asian financial crisis started 20 years ago and the global financial crisis and recession 9 years back. When a new global financial crisis strikes, the developing countries will be more damaged than in the last crisis as they have become less resilient and more vulnerable. They thus need to prepare from being overwhelmed.
The developing countries went through the 2008 financial crisis without much harm, because of certain conditions, which no longer exist. Credit: Bigstock
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26/07/2017
By Johan Galtung*
24 July 2017 – TRANSCEND Media Service – Why should anybody be interested in Norway that little, stretched-out country, that way to the North, to the North Pole?
Johan Galtung
Because just like we can learn about the geology of the earth by drilling deep down at any point through many layers, we can learn about the history of the earth by drilling deep down, at any point, through layers of time, about millennia, centuries, decades, years.
The “point” does not have to be a country, or any geo-political unit. Could be family, genealogy. For instance your own. There are data.
So, how has Norway evolved? Where is it now? Where may it be?
Frede Castberg, constitutional lawyer, advisor to Norway’s foreign office, rector at Oslo University, wrote a guide book: The Norwegian Way of Life (London: Heineman, 1954). As a starter.
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26/07/2017
Facing violence and trauma in Libya and other countries, thousands of children decided to flee by themselves, seeking to get away but not necessarily aiming for Europe, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on 25 July 2017 reported.
A group of Gambian boys survey the ocean from the beach during an outing from a Government reception centre that doubles as a lodging station for unaccompanied minors in Pozzallo, Sicily, on May 17, 2016. Photo: UNICEF/UN020035/Gilbertson VII Photo
A new study of push-pull factors on child marriage showed that 75 per cent of children on the move decided to leave unaccompanied and that initially, they had no intention to come to Europe, UNICEF spokesperson Sarah Crowe told journalists in Geneva.
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26/07/2017
Four years on, Australia’s offshore processing has left some 2,000 people languishing in unacceptable circumstances – causing physical and psychological harm, according to the United Nations refugee agency, which on 24 July 2017 called for an immediate end to the practice.
Australia will relocate refugees currently being held at this social centre on the Pacific island of Nauru to Cambodia. Photo: UNHCR/N. Wright
“Australia’s policy of offshore processing in Papua New Guinea and Nauru, which denies access to asylum in Australia for refugees arriving by sea without a valid visa, has caused extensive, avoidable suffering for far too long,” UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi said today in a statement.
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26/07/2017
ROME, Jul 24 2017 (IPS) – Politicians are so busy fighting for their jobs, they hardly seem to notice that they risk going out of business. Democracy is on the wane, yet the problem is nowhere in Parliaments. Common to all is a progressive loss of vision, of long term planning and solutions, with politics used just for power.
Roberto Savio
In English, there are two terms: politics, which is term for the machinery, and politics, that is the vision.
In Latin languages, there is only one, politics, and that is now becoming the adequate term also for English-speaking countries, from May’s UK to Trump’s US.
In a few years, we have seen an astonishing flourishing of authoritarian governments.
Turkey’s Erdogan may be the best example.
He was elected in 2002, and hailed as proof that you could be a Muslim and also a champion of democracy.
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