16/08/2017
By John Scales Avery*
John Scales Avery, author of this book: We Need Their Voices Today! has generously granted Human Wrongs Watch permission to publish it in a series of chapters. This is Chapter 19: Bertha von Suttner. The others will follow successively.
Figure 19.1: Bertha von Suttner (Wikipedia).
Early life and marriage
Baroness Bertha von Suttner (1843-1914) was born in Prague as Countess Kinsky. She was the posthumous daughter of a Field Marshall, and during the first part of her life, she accepted the military traditions of her family.
Later she vigorously opposed militarism, and she became a leader of the peace movement.
It was her arguments that persuaded Alfred Nobel to establish the Nobel Peace Prize, and in 1905 she became the first woman to receive the prize.
After serving as Alfred Nobel’s secretary (and close friend) in Paris (1876), Bertha married Baron Arthur von Suttner.
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16/08/2017
14 August 2017 – Wall Street International – When thinking of the ancient world that is a part of our history, certain things tend to come to mind. We might think of a time with no electricity, no air travel and no microwave dinners.
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We might imagine a Roman legion facing a charge of howling barbarians, intent on fighting off the imperial yoke. We may also close our eyes and transport ourselves in front of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World to imagine that which is now lost to history.
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16/08/2017
By Dr Ravi P Bhatia*
14 Aug 2017 – TRANSCEND Media Service – Most religions believe in the concept of soul or a spirit that resides in our bodies. It is also generally accepted that it is the soul that gives life to the body which it enters and then resides in. If the soul leaves the body, the person dies — in other words life is terminated. For this reason, life and soul are often considered synonymous.
Dr Ravi P Bhatia
A few questions arise about these concepts.
The questions consist of what happens to the soul as it leaves its previous body? Another question that comes up is when — at what instant does the soul leave a body?
A further point — why does the soul leave the body of a person? Does it know that a body is old and weak and it is a good time to leave the body?
In this limited sense, this idea appears to make sense. It is as if we are standing in a building engulfed by fire. We quickly try to run away from there to safety.
But let us say the person is physically fit but either meets with a fatal accident or is fatally shot by a pistol or gun.
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16/08/2017
NEW YORK, Aug 15 2017 (IPS) – While rapid population growth may be the defining feature of the 20th century, with world population nearly quadrupling from 1.6 to 6.1 billion, the hallmark of the 21st century is likely to be population aging.
Women sitting in front of an old age home in Kanyakumari district in Tamil Nadu, India. Credit: K. S. Harikrishnan/IPS
The consequences of the population aging are reverberating across the globe.
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16/08/2017
The Central African Republic (CAR) has spiralled into violence and remains one of the worst countries in the world to be a child and “right now there are few eyes looking at them and few hands trying to help,” the United Nations children’s agency on 15 August 2017 said.
In Haute Kotto Prefecture, Central African Republic, IDPs in PK3 are trying to give to the site a life of its own. Some are selling wood or cassava flour and children have already organized their playgrounds. Photo: OCHA/Yaye N. Sene
“The past year, and especially the last quarter, has seen a dramatic increase in violence,” Donaig Le Du, spokesperson for the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), told reporters at the regular press briefing in Geneva.
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16/08/2017
15 August 2017 – Over the past three days, the UN migration agency has found more survivors and victims’ remains from last week’s tragedy – when hundreds of migrants were forced from two boats into the sea off the coast of Yemen.
IOM staff assist Somali, Ethiopian migrants who were forced into the sea by smugglers. Photo: UN Migration Agency (IOM)
Last week, 280 migrants heading toward Gulf countries were removed from two boats off the coast of Yemen’s Shabwa Governorate. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) found, from the first incident on 9 August, the remains of 29 people – 12 Ethiopian men, 12 Ethiopian women and five Somali men.
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15/08/2017
By Catherine Shakdam*
11 August 2017 (RT)* — While few will pause upon hearing that Yemen was bombed yet again by Saudi Arabia’s war coalition, thus leading to many deaths, the kingdom’s propensity to concentrate its firepower on civilians has become a little hard to stomach.
The city of Sa’ada in the Sa’ada Governorate has been heavily hit by airstrikes during the conflict in Yemen. Photo: OCHA/Philippe Kropf (file)
Riyadh turned child killer this August when it sanctioned an airstrike on Sa’ada under the pretense of combating those infamous “Houthi rebels” many news agencies insist on labeling as political infidels to promote a binary whose foundations only exist in the mind of its maker – namely Saudi Arabia.
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15/08/2017
By Johan Galtung*
Alfaz, Spain, 14 August 2017 – TRANSCEND Media Service – It is customary for Spaniards to add the word “crisis” to the name of the country. They are not alone in that, it may be a Western habit, one of those words driving the West on.
Johan Galtung
Protected by extended families and 8,000+ local communities–average size only about 5,000, people know each other–Spaniards as people are not in a crisis.
And for the poorest of the communities there is always the cooperative Marinaleda model (NYT, 24 Apr 2009) to copy, emulate or adapt. Or new models to be invented.
There is corruption, unemployment, aging by youth leaving the country, increasing inequality; not massive suffering at the bottom.
Even if Spaniards are not in a real crisis, Spain may be.
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15/08/2017
Twenty million people risk dying of hunger in South Sudan, Somalia, Yemen and the north-east of Nigeria, including 1.4 million children suffering from severe malnutrition, the United Nations food relief agency said, spotlighting on 14 August 2017 its worldwide campaign to fight famine.
An 8-year-old displaced girl in Banki, Borno state, Nigeria, with her 5-year-old brother. Photo: OCHA/Yasmina Guerda
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14/08/2017
ROME, Aug 14 2017 (IPS) – African migrants who arrive on Yemen’s shores –that’s if they are not forced into the sea to drown—risk to fall in the hands of criminal networks who hold them captive for several days to extort money in exchange for their “freedom,” according to UN sources.
Map of the Horn of Africa. Source: United Nations, Department of Peacekeeping Operations, Cartographic Section. Public Domain
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