STOCKHOLM / ROME, Aug 13 2019 (IPS)* — We live in different worlds. The ones of friends, family and work colleagues. Worlds which are overshadowed by other, much bigger ones. Global spheres of international finance, politics, climate change, etc., contexts that might threaten our smaller circle of relationships; our family, our income, our general wellbeing, in short – our entire existence.
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“If Trump is a symptom, what is the disease?” One often encounters this interesting question in alternative media articles. I think that at least part of the answer is “Excessive economic inequality”.
Johan Scales Avery
Hobson’s Explanation of Imperialism
The English economist and Fabian, John Atkinson Hobson (1858-1940), offered a famous explanation of the colonial era in his book, Imperialism: AStudy, (1902).
According to Hobson, the basic problem that led to colonial expansion was an excessively unequal distribution of incomes in the industrialized countries.
The result of this unequal distribution was that neither the rich nor the poor could buy back the total output of their society.
13 August 2019 (Wall Street International)* —I am among those psychologists and other professionals who introduced the use of the term “gender” into the lexicon of the social sciences 50 years ago, in my case and by those feminists working alongside me, into the field of psychology.
Before our generation of writers, teachers and therapists, the differences between boys and girls, men and women were all subsumed under the term “sex.”
The Trump administration is already campaigning for the upcoming elections and its main target is an easy fragile one – migration and how to put the brakes on it. Turning Guatemala into a temporary prison has been its latest achievement. Español
August 2, 2019, Guatemala City, Guatemala, Guatemala: Women wait for relatives just deported from the USA arriving at Guatemala City International Airport Friday on a flight filled with deportees. | Miguel Juarez Lugo/Zuma Press/PA Images
12 August 2019 (openDemocracy)* — The issue of migration allows Trump to show off his imperial power in front of the cameras, and to cover up with much fuss a series of failures.
Numerous science, engineering, architecture, aviation, military and intelligence experts conclude that the US Government was responsible for the 9-11 atrocity (3,000 people killed) with some asserting Israeli and Saudi involvement, but US-beholden Western Mainstream media are united in blind belief in the official version of mendacious George Bush.
Farmers living on the Indian Ocean Comoros archipelago are being supported through a UN Development Programme (UNDP) initiative, to adapt to climate change in an effort to ensure they can continue to prosper in one of Africa’s poorest nations.*
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UNDP Comoros/James Stapley | People living on the Comoros archipelago in the Indian Ocean are needing to adapt to climate change.
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Some 200,000 Comorians rely solely on agriculture to make a living from crops such as ylang-ylang, vanilla and clove; fragrant plants which have led many to name the small island nation, the perfume islands.
11 August 2019 — Schools in South Africa have been designating students as “eco-warriors” as part of an initiative supported by the UN Development Programme (UNDP), to drive environmental and climate change awareness amongst the young and old in their communities.
7 August 2019 (UN Environment)* — It’s close to midnight on a Sunday and the skies of Lagos hang dark over the glittering lights of the city’s 17.5 million residents. One of those lights is small fire in a field in Ikeja, the capital of Lagos State, where 24-year-old John stands, tossing cables into the flames.
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“I’ve been coming to this place for almost six years now, I like it because when I am here nobody disturbs me,” John says.
He is one of the hundreds of informal ‘pickers’ who make a living scavenging saleable materials from the Odo-Iyalaro scrapyard, home to a thriving informal market for electronic waste.
DAYLESFORD, Australia, 13 August 2019 — Rainforests are a crucial feature of Earth’s biosphere. Apart from being critical to Earth’s climate and vital carbon sinks, the major player in Earth’s hydrological (water) cycle, a massive producer of oxygen and home to most of the world’s species, rainforests are the home of a large indigenous human population. They are also the source of many vital resources, including medicines, used by humans around the world.
8 August 2019 (Greenpeace International)* — If we want to keep both our bodies and our planet healthy, we need to make big changes to the way we look after the land.
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