02/04/2018
By Roy Eidelson*
2 April 2018 – TRANSCEND Media Service — Giant corporations are raking in record profits, while millions of Americans remain scarred by the Great Recession and a recovery that has left them behind.
Mammoth defense contractors push for more of everything military, while programs for the poor are on life support.
Global polluters are blocking effective responses to climate change, while the disenfranchised suffer disproportionately from environmental disasters and devastation.
Influential voices ridicule those who are disadvantaged by prejudice, by discrimination, and by dwindling resources.
All the while, our middle class is shrinking, imperiled, and insecure. This is not the America most of us want.
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02/04/2018
Kate, Maddie, Mimi and Ella’s story is part of the UN International Organisation for Migration (IOM) series: “i am a migrant“.* Their country of origin is the United States and Congo and they currently lives in Cambodia – 14,418 kms from home.
Kate, Maddie, Mimi and Ella. Photo IOM
Although they’re young, these sisters have experience with migration. They’re living in Cambodia now but they’ve also lived in Egypt, Indonesia, and Georgia, returning to the US every summer for holiday.
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02/04/2018
By Dr Ravi P Bhatia*
2 April 2018 – TRANSCEND Media Service – If being born is the beginning of life, ageing or becoming old is metaphorically speaking, walking into the sunset of life. This sunset, unlike the phenomenon of the sun setting at dusk is not a beautiful sight but an occasion for anxiety and worry as to what will happen at the time of death.
So, most people around the world would like to live as long as they can and to postpone death. This is not unusual. Biologically all living beings – human, animal, bird, have this inbuilt nature or feeling of protecting life.
Due to this innate nature, human beings have the urge to postpone if not altogether defeat death. This is so except in the case of a small section of people who commit suicide or take the decision of voluntarily giving up life in a dignified manner.
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02/04/2018
By Johan Galtung*
2 Apr 2018 – TRANSCEND Media Service – We may soon be witnessing those powerful politicians fizzling out. Trump is seen as “unleveled”, “incompetent”; Netanyahu is framed as “corrupt”; and Rajoy for pillaging the state to support his party. However, true or not, the real reasons are their failed policies.
Johan Galtung
Trump is used by the American Israel Political Affairs Committee, AIPAC, to define Israel’s Arab-Persian enemies as US enemies, and by others to turn him from deep friend to shallow foe of Russia. Risky.
Netanyahu’s Genesis 15:18 Israel from the Nile to the Euphrates is deemed indefensible with too vulnerable supply lines by Mossad-IDF. They “handle” Gaza in their belligerent way, but not 15:18. Risky.
Rajoy did not manage Catalunya: much violence, little negotiation with City No. 2, Barcelona, culturally superior to Madrid. He has been long in power; people get tired of him, but tends to hang on. Risky.
That raises the question of their likely successors.
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02/04/2018
A 52-year conflict that left 220,000 dead and uprooted the lives of over eight million people in Colombia came to an end in July 2017. FAO is helping Colombia to implement the brokered peace by providing assistance in the areas of land rights and rural development. ©Patrick Zachmann / Magnum Photos for FAO
“The anniversary of my brother’s death is on the 26 of July. He was killed 27 years ago,” says Robinson Salas. Robinson is one of the millions of people who had been displaced from their homes and their lands by the armed conflict between the Government of Colombia and the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) rebel group.
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02/04/2018
Continuing the upward trend that began in the early 2000s, the volume of international transfers of major weapons in 2013-17 was 10 per cent higher than in 2008-12, according to new data on arms transfers published on 12 March 2018 by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).*
The trend in international transfers of major weapons, 1978—2017. Data and graphic: SIPRI
The flow of arms increased to Asia and Oceania and the Middle East between 2008–12 and 2013–17, while there was a decrease in the flow to Africa, the Americas and Europe. The five biggest exporters—the United States, Russia, France, Germany and China—together accounted for 74 per cent of all arms exports in 2013–17.
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02/04/2018
By Robert J. Burrowes*
DAYLESFORD, Australia, 2 April March, 2018 — Fifty years ago, on 4 April 1968, the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated.
**Photo: Martin Luther King, Jr., speaking against the Vietnam War, St. Paul Campus, University of Minnesota | 27 April 1967 | Minnesota Historical Society | Source | Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license.
The night before he died, King gave another of his many evocative speeches; this one at the packed Mason Temple in Memphis. The speech included these words:
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Mammoth defense contractors push for more of everything military, while programs for the poor are on life support.
HUMAN WRONGS WATCH 