'Unseen' News and Views
As infections from COVID-19 coronavirus continue to rise, a senior UN health expert on Thursday [13 February 2020] said that there were some indications that disease transmission outside China might not be the tip of the “iceberg” that had been feared.
(UN News)* — A monthly average of 11,500 people traveling from the Horn of Africa to Yemen last year made the so-called Eastern Route the busiest maritime migration path on earth, the UN migration agency said on Friday [14 February 2020].
This government was not democratically elected and its not functioning according to the laws of the land (Image posted here from Wall Street International).As Abuse Is Known, Material Assistance Makes Rome Complicit
Photo released by the Libyan Coast Guard showing people disembarking in Libya after being intercepted offshore, June 24, 2018. © 2018 Libyan Coast Guard via AP
Milan – The Italian government should suspend all support to the Libyan Coast Guard until Libya commits to a clear plan to fully respect migrants’ safety and rights, Human Rights Watch said today [12 February 2020].
The EU is aiming to take concrete actions against the Trump Peace Plan in the Middle East | Photo: Reuters (Photo posted here from teleSUR’s article).
11 February 2020 (teleSUR)* — Leftist MEPs on Tuesday demanded concrete actions from the European Union (EU) in favor of Palestine and the end of an association agreement with Israel, following the U.S. plan for the Middle East.
11 February 2020 (UN Environment)* – Globally, over 4,2 million premature deaths per year can be attributed to outdoor air pollution, with the majority occurring in lower- and middle-income countries. The World Bank estimates that air pollution exacts an annual toll of US$5 trillion in health and welfare costs and US$225 billion in lost income. That is about equal to the gross domestic product of Japan, the third richest country in the world.
Photo by The United Nations Association of Finland
12 February 2020 (UN Environment)* — The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) regularly hosts high-level politicians, diplomats and civil servants, among others, at its headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya. In January 2020, six Finnish parliamentarians came to learn about how resident United Nations agencies and programmes collaborate to respond to the challenges the world is facing today.
(UN News)* – With the rainy season fast approaching, countries in the Horn of Africa are in a race against time to tackle a Desert Locust invasion amidst ongoing humanitarian challenges, the United Nations warned on Monday [10 February 2020].
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After the supposedly post-racial presidency of Barack Obama, what passes for the liberal punditry discovered racism had arisen in the homeland. They never felt so good feeling bad about racism, denouncing what they identified as its primal cause – Mr. Trump, who was sullying that “shining example” of the United States of America.
Roger Harris
Obscured were those historical antecedents of this “exceptional” republic, founded on the expropriation of indigenous land and extermination of its inhabitants and built in part by African slave labor.
Peculiar Institution of US Racism
Trump has been reprehensible in pandering to white racism. But the Republicans have no monopoly on this franchise. We should remember the legacy of Jim Crow and Dixiecrat Democrats in high office including six US senators and two Supreme Court justices who were members of the Ku Klux Klan.
HUMAN WRONGS WATCH 