11/04/2019
A Quasi-Review of, A Lie Too Big To Fail: The Real History of the Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, by Lisa Pease
“‘We’re all puppets,’ the suspect [Sirhan Sirhan] replied, with more truth than he could have understood at that moment.”
– Lisa Pease, quoting from the LAPD questioning of Sirhan
Edward Curtin
8 Apr 2019 – When Senator Robert Kennedy was assassinated on June 5, 1968, the American public fell into an hypnotic trance in which they have remained ever since.
The overwhelming majority accepted what was presented by government authorities as an open and shut case that a young Palestinian American, Sirhan Sirhan, had murdered RFK because of his support for Israel, a false accusation whose ramifications echo down the years.
That this was patently untrue and was contradicted by overwhelming evidence made no difference.
Sirhan did not kill Robert Kennedy, yet he remains in jail to this very day.
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11/04/2019
More than four in 10 women in 51 countries surveyed, feel they have no choice but to agree to their partner’s sexual demands, the UN sexual and reproductive health agency, UNFPA, said on Wednesday [10 April 2019], noting that they are also unable to make basic decisions about getting pregnant and accessing health care for themselves.
UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe | Early marriage remains a serious problem in Chad in the Sahel region of Africa.
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11/04/2019
©UNHCR/Vincent Tremeau | Venezuelan migrant in Colombia. About 5,000 people have been crossing borders daily to leave Venezuela over the past year, according to UN data. Colombia, April 2019.
Tensions in the country escalated in January this year, when Juan Guaidó, head of the country’s National Assembly, challenged the legitimacy of the sitting President, Nicolás Maduro, in power since 2013 and sworn in again for a second term this past January, following an election process disputed by many in opposition.
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10/04/2019
As often remarked in this blog, the world is in such a mess that we need radical action. In fact we need revolutionary change.
Dr. David Adams
But where can it come from? Who can be the revolutionary actors?
A century ago, it was thought by some that revolution would come from industrial workers.
They were constantly and obviously exploited by their capitalist bosses.
They were concentrated in large numbers in factories
They had the power to stop production by going on strike.
Today there are few such factories in the rich countries of the North. Factories have been automated or transferred to China and the poor countries of the South.
We don’t hear anymore that factory workers will change the world.
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10/04/2019
10 April 2019 (UN Environment)* — Marine biologists will tell you that fish species such as tuna and swordfish, known as the deep-water divers of the ocean for hunting at depths of 200 metres, are today repeatedly coming to surface view.
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10 April 2019 (UN Environment)* — Marine biologists will tell you that fish species such as tuna and swordfish, known as the deep-water divers of the ocean for hunting at depths of 200 metres, are today repeatedly coming to surface view.
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10/04/2019
Unless the world faces its “social, economic and environmental challenges head-on”, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said on Tuesday [9 April 2019], the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), will not be met.*
UN Social Media Team | WHO China Ambassador Yiyang Qianxi attends 2019 ECOSOC Youth Forum.
Addressing the final plenary of the
UN Youth Forum, he
warned that “the once-in-a-generation opportunity we have to end poverty and bring lasting prosperity for all on a healthy planet, will have been squandered”.
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10/04/2019
In a heartfelt briefing to the Security Council on Tuesday [9 April 2019], Filippo Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, has said that, during his three and a half decades as an international civil servant, he has “never seen such toxicity, such poisonous language in politics, media and social media,” directed towards refugees, migrants and foreigners.
© UNICEF/UN0247721/Arcos | Colombian customs post at Rumichaca, border of Ecuador with Colombia. The UN refugee chief has condemned the toxic language focused on refugees and mingrants
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09/04/2019
Extremely Dangerous Times!
The Godfathers of Russiagate:
James Clapper
Former CIA Director John Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper are key figures, along with mainstream media parrots, in fueling the new demonization of Russia on behalf of the U.S. Military Industrial Complex.
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09/04/2019
UNICEF’s first-ever global report dedicated to early childhood education highlights a lack of investment in pre-primary by the majority of governments worldwide.
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HUMAN WRONGS WATCH 
In January 2019 Venezuela’s opposition-led National Assembly swore in congressman Juan Guaidó as the country’s interim president. Guaidó’s claim to power is a severe blow against the already weakened government of Nicolás Maduro, whose re-election as president in May 2018 was widely rejected by the international community and deemed illegitimate by over 50 foreign governments.