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(Beirut) – Governments should immediately support a salvage operation to prevent a supertanker moored off Yemen’s coast from spilling hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil into the Red Sea, 20 human rights and humanitarian groups said in a joint statement released today [18 July 2022]
Yemen – Rod Waddington / flickr.
As President Joe Biden embarks on his trip to the Middle East, those of us back home must acknowledge the suffering the United States has caused in places like Yemen.
11 Jul 2022 – President Joe Biden’s foreign policy advisors are applauding themselves for devising a “sensitive” itinerary as he plans to embark on a trip to the Middle East on July 13.
Tasks for the Future
John Scales Avery
In the future, we will be faced with many important challenges and tasks. We need a new economic system, a new society, a new social contract, a new way of life.
Here are the great tasks that history has given to our generation: We must achieve a steady-state economic system. We must restore democracy.
We must decrease economic inequality. We must break the power of corporate greed. We must leave fossil fuels in the ground. We must stabilize and ultimately reduce the global population.
We must eliminate the institution of war.
And finally, we must develop a more mature ethical system to match our new technology We must achieve a steady-state economic system.
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