The United Nations | Photo from Wall Street International.
22/01/2019
More Than an “Icon:” Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Enduring Legacy
Human Wrongs Watch
By Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service*
21 January 2019 — Martin Luther King Jr., is the most important historical figure of the 20Th and 21RST Centuries, the indisputable enduring icon of modern times.
There are many brave individuals whose contributions have advanced the human condition, resulting in similar social contributions. The more I studied King’s substantial national and international legacies, however, the more I became convinced King is the more than the defining “icon” of our times.
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22/01/2019
Martin Luther King Day and the Unspeakable
Human Wrongs Watch
By Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service*
21 Jan 2019 – As Martin Luther King’s birthday is celebrated with a national holiday, his death day disappears down the memory hole. Across the country – in response to the King Holiday and Service Act passed by Congress and signed by Bill Clinton in 1994 – people will be encouraged to make the day one of service.
President Lyndon B. Johnson meeting with King in the White House Cabinet Room, 1966 | Yoichi Okamoto (1915–1985) 
| Public Domain
Such service does not include King’s commitment to protest a decadent system of racial and economic injustice or non-violently resist the U.S. warfare state that he called “the greatest purveyor of violence on earth.”
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22/01/2019
Johan Galtung on Peace Economy, Palestine, and More
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Al Jazeera | The Stream – TRANSCEND Media Service*
The Founder of Peace Studies discusses Sociocide, Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and building economies of peace.
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/x2SejW6MbQo?wmode=transparent&fs=1&hl=en&modestbranding=1&iv_load_policy=3&showsearch=0&rel=0&theme=dark
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22/01/2019
‘Cyber-Security Challenges, and the Existence of New Weapons Systems and Technologies, Are Not Sufficiently Addressed in Current Arms Control Regimes’
Human Wrongs Watch
21 January 2019 — Michael Møller, head of the UN in Geneva, has warned delegates to the Conference on Disarmament that cyber-security challenges, and the existence of new weapons systems and technologies, are not being sufficiently addressed or reflected in current arms control regimes.
22/01/2019
‘Take Human Rights Obligations into Account When Designing Economic Reforms’ – Independent UN Rights Expert to Governments
Human Wrongs Watch
Calling on governments to take human rights obligations into account when designing economic reforms, an independent United Nations rights expert said on Monday [21 January 2019] that “human rights impact assessments are key to the process”.
22/01/2019
World’s Human Rights Watchdog Spotlights Afghanistan, Yemen and 12 Others: Here’s the Scoop
Human Wrongs Watch
The United Nation Human Rights Council (HRC) kicked off its Universal Periodic Review, or UPR, on Monday [21 January 2019] at the Palais des Nations in Geneva to examine the human rights situation in 14 countries, including Afghanistan and Yemen.
21/01/2019
126 Years of Illegal US Occupation of Hawai’i
Human Wrongs Watch
By James Albertini | Malu ‘Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service*
1893 a coup d’état was carried out against Queen Lili’uokalani and the Hawaiian Kingdom by foreign resident business interests with the assistance of U.S. Marines from the USS Boston. An illegal U.S. occupation of Hawai’i has continued ever since. Contrary to popular belief there never was a Treaty of Annexation.
Today, occupied Hawai’i is home to more than 100 U.S. military installations, a runaway tourist industry and settler population that has turned Hawai’i into a playground for rich land speculators.
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21/01/2019
Global Economy to See ‘Steady’ Growth of Three Per Cent in 2019 Despite Risks – UN
Human Wrongs Watch
The global economy grew at a “steady” 3.1 per cent last year and similar levels of growth are expected in 2019, but these headline figures mask growth that is uneven and often failing to reach where it is most needed, the UN’s chief economist warned on Monday [21 January 2019].
“We still have relatively strong growth, but we do see rising risks on the horizon and an increasing likelihood that some of these risks might actually materialize,” said Elliott Harris, United Nations Chief Economist, in comments coinciding with the launch of the World Economic Situation and Prospects 2019 (WESP) report.
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21/01/2019
What Is the Question?
Human Wrongs Watch
By Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service*
“The question is whether finance will promote economic growth and rising living standards or create unproductive credit and use government to enforce creditor claims by imposing austerity and reducing large swathes of the population to debt peonage.”
Howard Richards
This précis of the pickle that is our prison was written by Michael Hudson.
It could have been written by Yanis Varoufakis; or, perhaps slightly altered, by Joseph Stiglitz, Robert Reich, Bernie Sanders’ advisor Stephanie Kelton, or any of the distinguished scholars committed in their hearts to serving the common good, which I shall call “the Economists on the side of the Angels.” (EA)
Let me start by fleshing out the sort of point of view I take the quote to epitomize with a seven-point telegram. It aspires to highlight typical elements of an EA rap:
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