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26/02/2020
Three Financial Firms Could Change the Direction of the Climate Crisis – and Few People Have Any Idea
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26/02/2020
‘Along with Climate Shocks, Conflict and Acute Food Insecurity, East Africa Now Faces a Hunger Threat from Desert Locusts’
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More funding needed to combat locust swarms ‘unprecedented in modern times’
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25/02/2020
The Doctrine of Just War: Just That, War! (Or More War than Just)
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By Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service*
There is no scarcity of literature in this field, much of it permutations around the basic core of “I am of course against war, but – -”. So let it be clear from the outset that the present author is against war, there being no “but”.
Johan Galtung
War as an institution to resolve conflict is an abomination, like slavery and colonialism as institutions. Occasional war, slavery and colonialism are probably hard to eliminate.
But the key word is institution, legitimized by social norms and mores.
A doctrine of just war is designed to do exactly that, offer a legitimation, for instance by seeing the evil of war as something that can be outweighed by possible positive consequences. But all human activity carries in its wake something good and something bad, weighing one against the other we can justify anything, like justifying Hitler with the Autobahnen.
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25/02/2020
Biodiversity ‘Fundamental’ for Global Food Systems, at ‘Heart’ of Development – UN Food and Agriculture Chief
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24 February 2020 (UN News)* — Because the production of everything we eat transforms the environment, the United Nations agriculture chief told a high-level UN meeting on biodiversity that careful discussions are needed to decide on the scale of acceptable transformations.
25/02/2020
COVID-19 Not Yet a Pandemic: World Health Organization’s Chief
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(UN News)* — While a sudden increase in new cases of COVID-19 is of concern, the spread of coronavirus is not yet a pandemic, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on 24 February 2020.
“Does this virus have pandemic potential? Absolutely, it has. Are we there yet? From our assessment, not yet,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told journalists in Geneva.
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25/02/2020
UN Launches New Project to Address Link between Terrorism, Arms and Crime
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(UN News)* — Cheap and easily accessible small arms are increasingly becoming the “weapon of choice” for many terrorist groups, the UN counter-terrorism chief told an event on Friday [21 February 2020] aimed to raise awareness of the nexus between terrorism, organized crime and illicit small arms trafficking.
24/02/2020
Journalists Speak Up for Julian Assange
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Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service*
See: 1242 Signatures from 99 Countries as of 21 Feb 10:30 a.m. GMT
[TMS editor is #700 on the list]
Julian Assange, founder and publisher of WikiLeaks, is currently detained in Belmarsh high-security prison in the United Kingdom and faces extradition to the United States and criminal prosecution under the Espionage Act.
He risks up to 175 years imprisonment for his part in making public the leak of US military documents from Afghanistan and Iraq, and a trove of US State Department cables.
The ‘War Diaries’ provided evidence that the US Government misled the public about activities in Afghanistan and Iraq and committed war crimes. WikiLeaks partnered with a wide range of media organizations worldwide that republished the War Diaries and embassy cables.
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24/02/2020
Peace in Afghanistan Will Be Victory for the Taliban, a Failure for the West
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The Taliban remain strong despite everything the US is throwing at them – but how serious is Trump about a peace deal?
20 February 2020 (openDemocracy)* — The US and the Taliban have agreed that they would like to hold a seven-day ceasefire. The chances of it actually happening varies by the day, and it’s not clear whether Donald Trump and those close to him do genuinely want a deal.
Beyond those hurdles, however, could a short-term ceasefire open into a lasting peace – one that brings stability while ensuring respect for human rights?
From the US perspective, the war is low profile but extraordinarily intense. The country’s armed forces are dropping many more bombs than a decade ago, when they had many more boots on the ground.
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24/02/2020
Choline – An Important Nutrient for Vegetarians and Vegans
By Robert Smith*
24 February 2020 (Wall Street International)* — In previous articles, I discussed the importance of eating little or no meat (especially beef)1-3.
Eggs are among the main food sources of choline | Image from Wall Street International.
Unfortunately, the food industry is a powerful force working against this idea. Clever marketing continues to increase the demand for mass-produced beef throughout the world.
So, it’s especially disappointing when news agencies publish headlines like this one: “Vegan and Plant-Based Diets Worsen Brain Health”4.
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24/02/2020
Nepal’s Baby Export
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– A major discrepancy between Nepal government and foreign records of the number of Nepali children adopted in North America and Europe has exposed a trafficking ring that involves various child welfare agencies in Kathmandu.
The Ministry of Women, Children and Senior Citizens has records of only 64 children from Nepal sent for adoption to ten western countries from 2010 to 2019. However, a list submitted to the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH) by the US Department of State and the nine other countries reveals that 242 Nepali children were taken for adoption in those nine years.
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