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These words belong to Eman Muqbel, site management coordinator for the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) in Gaza. She and her family are among hundreds of thousands of Palestinians living under bombardment in Gaza City and being forced to flee their homes.
Image from OXFAM International.For example, Tesla, the firm owned by the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, made $5.63bn from Electric Vehicles (EVs) sales in 2024.
For each EV, the company earned profits of $3,145 – 321 times more than the entire Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) got for supplying the 3Kg of cobalt in each car.
(UN News)* — Humanitarian aid in Gaza must be protected, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Friday [], following the theft of therapeutic food critical for saving thousands of young lives from malnutrition as famine spreads.
Nairobi, 23 September 2025 – Two years of escalating conflict have caused unprecedented levels of environmental damage in the Gaza Strip, damaging its soils, freshwater supplies and coastline, finds a new report from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
The Environmental Impact of the Conflict in the Gaza Strip, released on 23 September 2025, says the recovery from some of that damage could take decades. The assessment comes a month after a panel of independent experts determined that parts of the Gaza are in a state of famine.
(UN News)* — Foreign Ministers from across the Americas met on the margins of the UN General Assembly on Tuesday [] to rally for greater support for Haiti.
The Caribbean country remains in the grip of a deepening multidimensional crisis affecting the political, security, human rights and humanitarian spheres, with implications for the region.
Armed gangs control large swathes of the territory, more than six million people are in urgent need of assistance, and 1.4 million have fled their homes, mainly women and children.
Killings and abductions are rampant, while cases of sexual and gender-based violence have significantly increased.
– US President Trump’s snide barbs against his appointee, US Federal Reserve Bank Chairman Jerome Powell, have revived support for central bank independence – long abused by powerful finance interests against growth and equity.
Jomo Kwame Sundaram
Independent central banks are supposed to improve the quality, equity, and growth impact of monetary policy.
Instead, they have primarily served powerful financial interests, with contractionary and regressive effects leading to slower, unequal growth.
Independent of whom?
Central banks were established to determine monetary policy to shape financial conditions to achieve national economic objectives.
In recent decades, the new conventional policy wisdom has been that independent central banks should set monetary policy. Thus, they have been influenced by powerful financial interests, typically foreign, in smaller, open developing countries.
Zarni tells it like it is.
11 Sep 2025 – Kirk, Charlie Kirk is DEAD. By that single “BEAUTIFUL” shot, as his Patron Donald Paedo Trump Jr is wont to say (ala BIG and Beautiful Bill).
Obviously, it must have been a Big and Beautiful Bullet. The shot was too neat and professional, needing no follow-up, that in turn, rules out any “woke” or Left or Marxist or Muslims or LGBTQs.
22 September 2025 — Deep in the forest in Venezuela’s Bolivar state, residents live in fear of horrific violence at the hands of armed groups involved in the illicit gold trade.
During a 2020 investigation, a 17-year-old boy told Human Rights Watch how he witnessed members of a Venezuelan armed group amputating both hands of a miner they accused of stealing gold. Summary executions and forced child labor by armed groups is still happening today.
(UN News)* — Women and girls still reeling from Afghanistan’s deadly earthquake face even greater suffering rebuilding their lives and livelihoods – with little help to hand, gender equality agency UN Women said on Friday [].
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