22/10/2019
The Management of Savagery by Max Blumenthal, 2019, Verso
Destination Afghanistan was known as the big easy back in the halcyon days of the late 1960s.
Hippies from throughout the affluent West hitchhiked to the capital, Kabul, where crash pads and hashish were cheap, and the locals were tolerant.
Life appeared to be mellow in the scenic shadow of the Hindu Kush Himalayans. That was then.
Now Afghanistan is engulfed in year 18 of the forever US war with no end in sight.
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22/10/2019
By John Scales Avery*
A new freely downloadable book
John Scales Avery
I would like to announce the publication of a book which discusses himan emotions from an evolutionary perspective.
The book consists mainly of book chapters and articles that I have previously published, although some new material has been added.
It can be freely downloaded and circulated from the following link:
http://eacpe.org/app/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/The-Passions-of-Mankind-by-John-Scales-Avery.pdf
Human emotions: An evolutionary paradox?
Today, our emotions seem to be driving us towards disaster. At first this seems to be a paradox. Our emotions have been produced by evolution, and Darwinian natural selection is supposed to produce traits that lead to survival, rather than to destruction.
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21/10/2019
By IWGIA* — Indigenous women all over the world suffer from triple discrimination as they are not only discriminated simply for being women or for being indigenous, but also for being indigenous women. Indigenous women are often not only left out of local and national political processes but are also excluded from decision-making processes and structures within indigenous communities.
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21/10/2019
14 October 2019 (UNHCR)* — European States must step up their efforts to protect child refugees and migrants who have endured not only difficult and dangerous journeys but continue to face risks and hardship once in Europe, including unsafe accommodation, being incorrectly registered as adults, and a lack of appropriate care, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has urged | Español | Français | عربي
A Syrian family from Idlib recently arrived on the Greek island of Lesvos and living in an olive grove next to Moria reception centre. © UNHCR/Gordon Welters
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21/10/2019
21 October 2019 (UN News)* — A landmark UN migration study published on Monday [21 October 2019] shows that 93 per cent of Africans making the journey to European countries along irregular routes, would do it again, despite facing often life-threatening danger.
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© UNICEF/Ashley Gilbertson | Two young unaccompanied Gambian migrants look at a map after crossing to Italy in 2016. (file)
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20/10/2019
October 2019 (Wall Street International)* — The World Health Organization (WHO), the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) and others have been issuing dietary guidelines for decades1-4. The first guidelines were issued in 1916 by the USDA4.
The initial goals were to improve public health by preventing deficiencies in nutrients that are essential for good health4. That is, a lack of these nutrients can cause malnutrition and/or non-communicable diseases (NCDs).
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20/10/2019
The International Organisation for Migration says that in Bangladesh victims of human trafficking are either abducted or lured with promises of a better life. Credit: Rafiqul Islam Sarker/IPS
Capitalising on Hossain’s plight, a neighbour offered him a “promising job” abroad in Iraq.
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20/10/2019
19 October 2019 (UN News)* — Tensions around global trade and technology continue to rise and the international community needs to “do everything possible” to prevent the world being split into two competing spheres, led by the United States and China.
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World Bank/Simone D. McCourte | World Bank Headquarters, Washington DC. Photo: World Bank/Simone D. McCourte
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20/10/2019
10 October 2019 (UN Environment)* — Life has always been hotter in cities. Concrete soaking up and radiating sunlight, and the concentration of people, cars and machinery crank up the temperatures, making them on average 5–9°C warmer than rural areas.
Image from UN Environment.
This has led to fast growth of power-hungry air conditioning units delivering cooling. The problem is that this cooling has been pumping out excess heat and greenhouse gas emissions, which warm the planet and so lead to an ever-greater need for cooling.
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19/10/2019
18 October 2019 (Wall Street International)* —
As its very name suggests, Ecuador is geographically located in the middle of the world. And now, from all appearances, neoliberalism has decided to carry out its end-of- the-world maneuvers in this country. That is perhaps the reason it is coming to the realization that the Ecuadorean people is a tough, if not impossible obstacle to overcome.
As everyone knows these days, neoliberalism’s deep interconnectedness with the interests of finance capital makes it the most antisocial version of global capitalism.
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Destination Afghanistan was known as the big easy back in the halcyon days of the late 1960s.
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