The top UN official in Libya has delivered a stern message urging other nations to stop intervening in the country’s ongoing crisis. (*).
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Published in USA Today
07/01/2020
The Top UN Official in Libya Urges Other Nations to Stop Intervening in the Country’s Ongoing Crisis
07/01/2020
Stop Escalation, Urges UN Chief, as Geopolitical Tensions Reach ‘Highest Level this Century’
The UN Secretary-General António Guterres called on world leaders to de-escalate geopolitical tensions on Monday [6 January 2020], which he described as being “at their highest level this century” as the new decade dawns. (*).
06/01/2020
Trump Threatens Iraq with ‘Very Big Sanctions’ Unless It Pays Back BILLIONS for an Airbase If US Troops Are Forced to Withdraw
6 Jan, 2020 (RT)* — Iraq should brace for sanctions that will make the ones placed on Iran look weak in comparison if it kicks out the US troops without first covering the costs for an airbase, US President Donald Trump said.
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06/01/2020
Attacks on Iran – Past and Present
General Qasem Soleimani (Photo from Wall Street International).06/01/2020
One Mangrove, a Thousand Hopes
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6 January 2020 (UN Environment)* — Mangrove ecosystems support the planet and people in unique ways. Many Nigerians living near the river in Cross River State know that. “Mangroves provide the best firewood, as people who roast fish know,” says Idem Williamson, a villager living in Esierebom community in Cross River State. “But by cutting the wood, the mangroves disappeared. And without the mangroves, water floods our houses.”
Shop selling mangrove produce. Photo by UN-REDD
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The need to restore mangroves inspired Williamson to get involved for a REDD+ project that saw the whole community come together to plant more than 10,000 seedlings.
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05/01/2020
The Key to the Environmental Crisis Is Beneath Our Feet
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By Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service*
The Green New Deal resolution that was introduced into the U.S. House of Representatives in February hit a wall in the Senate, where it was called unrealistic and unaffordable.
Ellen Brown
In a Washington Post article titled “The Green New Deal Sets Us Up for Failure. We Need a Better Approach,” former Colorado governor and Democratic presidential candidate John Hickenlooper framed the problem like this:
The resolution sets unachievable goals. We do not yet have the technology needed to reach “net-zero greenhouse gas emissions” in 10 years. That’s why many wind and solar companies don’t support it. There is no clean substitute for jet fuel. Electric vehicles are growing quickly, yet are still in their infancy. Manufacturing industries such as steel and chemicals, which account for almost as much carbon emissions as transportation, are even harder to decarbonize.
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05/01/2020
Evo Morales – An Indian Out of Place
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3 January 2020 (Wall Street International)* — The dramatic events in Bolivia in recent months have followed an imperial script that Latin Americans are becoming more and more familiar with, and which consists in paving the way for the replacing of a democratic government deemed hostile to the interests of the United States (or rather, of U.S. multinationals).
Evo Morales (2008) (Photo from Wall Street International).
This is done by orchestrating a two-pronged plan: nullifying an “inimical” election victory while rapidly consolidating the new regime, which in its turn takes measures that go beyond the remit of a transitional government.
04/01/2020
As Killer Robots Loom, A Push to Keep Humans in Control of Use of Force
In the United States and around the world, public concern is rising at the prospect of weapons systems that would select and attack targets without human intervention. © 2018 Campaign to Stop Killer Robots
04/01/2020
‘Nearly 300,000 Syrians Displaced from Idlib, Syria, since mid-December’
Amidst concern for the safety and protection of more than three million civilians in Syria’s last rebel-held enclave, the UN’s most senior humanitarian and political affairs officials briefed the Security Council on Syria behind closed doors on Friday [3 January 2020]. (*).
04/01/2020
Child Marriages Unlikely to End by UN’s 2030 Deadline
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– “Right now, I don’t want to get married. I have a long life and a dream in front of me”, a 14-year-old young girl from Bangladesh told her parents as she was just not ready to get married.
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Credit: United Nations
The UN’s Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 5.3) has targeted to end child marriage by 2030.
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