'Unseen' News and Views
A little more than a week into the New Year, close to 200 migrants or refugees have reportedly died or gone missing in the Mediterranean Sea – with up to 100 unaccounted for since Saturday, the United Nations migration agency on 10 January 2018 said.
Some of the rescued migrants aboard a Libyan Coast Guard vessel. Photo: IOM Libya/Eshaebi/2018
Photo from: World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
More than half the war-weary Syrian refugees in Lebanon are living in extreme poverty and borrowing money for food and to pay rent has become commonplace, the United Nations on Tuesday 9 January 2018 reported.
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This young Syrian refugee, shown here talking with a neighbour, fled Homs and now lives with her three sons in a dark, damp one-room garage originally intended to be a shop, in an alleyway with other similar shelters, in Ghazieh, Saida, Lebanon (file). Photo: UNHCR/Sebastian Rich
While the eyes of the world are on Myanmar’s northern Rakhine and Cox’s Bazaar, Bangladesh, more than 60,000 Rohingya children remain nearly forgotten, trapped in appalling camps in central Rakhine where the shelters teeter on stilts above garbage and excrement, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on 9 January 2018 reported.
Children collect clean and safe water from a tap stand in Kyein Ni Pyin camp, home to almost 6,000 Rohingya displaced by violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state in 2012. Photo: UNICEF/Thame
9 January 2018 — A long-standing French protectorate briefly occupied by Japan during World War II, Cambodia became independent in 1953 as the French finally withdrew from Indochina. Under the leadership of Prince Norodom Sihanouk, Cambodia remained officially neutral, including during the subsequent US war on Indochina.
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8 Jan 2018 – TRANSCEND Media Service — Because he was not a partisan in the Cold War between the U.S./NATO and the U.S.S.R, Albert Camus was an oddball. As a result, he was criticized by the right, left, and center.
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Albert Camus
His allegiance was to truth, not ideologies. He opposed state murder, terrorism, and warfare from all quarters.
Foreword to Michael Haas’ Book
Johan Galtung
What is that American Diplomacy, after US bombing killed 3,5 million in Pyongyang in 1952 and the US Army killed 3 million in Vietnam from 1961 (Kennedy) to 30 Apr 1975 (Ford)? Softer?
This very rich, well researched book by Michael Haas–a senior, major US political scientist–gives detailed “softer” empirical, factual answers in Part II. Indeed, highly recommended.
In this foreword, however, I will explore US deep culture implications for US foreign policy, close to “American Diplomacy”.
The US self-image as successor to Israel as MFN–most favored nation–by God, with Chosen People-Promised Land, CPPL, status, is from 1620, on Mayflower.
With millions of desperate people across Syria now facing their seventh winter of war, the United Nations warned on 8 January 2018 that intensified military operations in the country’s north are forcing families to flee, in the cold, to areas without enough resources to support them.
A Syrian family tries to keep warm in this unfinished building in the informal settlement of Al-Khalidia Al-Khamisa in Homs. UNICEF/Sanadiki (file)
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