'Unseen' News and Views – By Baher Kamal & The Like
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Of course, as I explained previously, it is not just the global elite that is insane.
All those individuals – politicians, businesspeople, academics, corporate media editors and journalists, judges and lawyers, bureaucrats…. – who serve the elite, including by not exposing and resisting it, are also insane.
8 November 2018 (UN Environment)* — You walk into a burger restaurant. What’s going through your mind? Double meat with extra bacon and cheese? Brown bun or added slice of avocado? Environmental degradation or ecological preservation?
You probably don’t think about the latter. But maybe you should.
Research shows that if cows were a nation, they would be the world’s third largest greenhouse gas emitter.
As humans, meat production is one of the most destructive ways in which we leave our footprint on the planet.
10 November 2018 (Wall Street International)* – I propose that racial categories are born of racism and not the reverse. Just as there is no femininity without its purported opposite, masculinity, there is no way to approach the topic of Whiteness without including its juxtaposition and opposition to Blackness (and somewhat later to other hues and colors).
Racial categories are born of racism | Photo from Wall Street International.
“Outraged” by the “unconscionable toll” caused by the escalation of hostilities in Yemen, the UN human rights chief, Michelle Bachelet, on 10 November 2018 urged the warring parties and those supplying them with weapons, to take immediate steps to end the suffering of civilians.
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“The Saudi-led coalition and pro-Hadi forces, the Houthi forces – and those who supply arms or other support to the parties to the conflict – all have the power or the influence to stop the starvation and killing of civilians, to give some reprieve to the people of Yemen,” UN human rights Commissioner Bachelet stated.
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