18/10/2017
17 October 2017 – After weeks of conflict in western Libya, United Nations agencies have been working around the clock to meet the urgent needs of the more than 14,000 refugees and migrants who had been held captive in numerous locations in the coastal city of Sabratha – approximately 80 kilometres west of Tripoli.
UNHCR teams in Libya have been responding to the urgent humanitarian needs in and around Sabratha, a city located some 80 kilometres west of the Libyan capital, Tripoli. Photo: UNHCR
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17/10/2017
African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) soldier greets a group of children during a patrol in the Kaa’ran district of Somali capital, Mogadishu. Credit: UN Photo/Stuart Price
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17/10/2017
ALTA FLORESTA, Brazil, Oct 16 2017 (IPS) – The dirty water is killing more and more fish and ‘Taricaya’ yellow-spotted river turtles every day. In addition, the river is not following its usual cycle, and the water level rises or declines without warning, regardless of the season, complained three Munduruku indigenous law students in the south of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest.
The Teles Pires river along the stretch between Sinop and Colider, two cities from which two new hydropower stations take their name, which are transforming the northern part of the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso, a major energy generator and producer and exporter of soybean, maize and beef. Credit: Mario Osava / IPS
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17/10/2017
By Johan Galtung*
16 October 2017 – TRANSCEND Media Service – There was what may have been the most violent white US massacre ever; 59 killed from the 32nd floor of a Las Vegas hotel. The assassin is now being criminalized, psychiatrized, individualized, characterized.
Johan Galtung
But the massacre was systemic. With strong forces for competition and for violence, US competition to be the most violent follows.
And that immediately indicates two ways out of the violence: the USA becoming less competitive, and the USA becoming less violent. How?
Anthony Stevens, in a touching article, “A Basic Need: A lack of community” (Resurgence No. 174) demands “the recreation of community life within the context of our post-industrial society”.
A community engenders solidarity, and cooperation rather than competition.
However, the “less violent” part. Gun control is not the way.
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16/10/2017
16 October 2017 — Earthquakes and hurricanes devastating parts of Mexico and the Caribbean; flooding in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Pakistan affecting more than 41 million people; refugee crises in Syria and Myanmar; protracted crises in Afghanistan, Chad and the Central African Republic; and more than 20 million people facing starvation and famine across Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen in the worst humanitarian crisis since World War Two…
Photo: Transparency International
Around the globe, tens of millions of people need humanitarian assistance from governments, humanitarian aid agencies, and the UN.
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16/10/2017
Women and girls are central to the sustainability of rural households and communities, improving rural livelihoods and overall wellbeing, but their role and significance is often overlooked, the head of the United Nations entity for women’s empowerment on 15 October said.
Small farms in Madagascar are hard hit by erratic weather and locust invasion. Photo: FAO/Yasuyoshi Chiba
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15/10/2017
By Uri Avery*
14/10/17
Ze’ev Begin, the son of Menachem Begin, is a very nice human being. It is impossible not to like him. He is well brought up, polite and modest, the kind of person one would like to have as a friend.
Uri Avnery
Unfortunately, his political views are far less likeable. They are much more extreme than even the acts of his father. The father, after leading the Irgun, sat down and made peace with Anwar al-Sadat of Egypt.
Ze’ev is closer to Golda Me’ir, who ignored Sadat’s peace overtures and led us into the disastrous Yom Kippur war.
Begin jr. is a strict follower of the “revisionist” Zionist creed founded by Vladimir Ze’ev Jabotinsky. One of the characteristics of this movement has always been the importance it gave to written texts and declarations.
The labor movement, headed by David Ben-Gurion, didn’t give a damn about words and declarations and respected only “facts on the ground”.
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15/10/2017
7 October 2017 (Wall Street International) –
As pointed out in the first part of this article trying to outline some of the background important for understanding but not explicitly mentioned by Moisi in his recent book on Geopolitics of [TV] series, fear and warmongering in heroic histories were also used to prime youngsters, from their early childhood, to be prepared to accept and make own sacrifice for the honour or better of the whole.
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15/10/2017
ROME, Oct 14 2017 (IPS) –
The world is on the move. More people have been forced to flee their homes than at any time since the Second World War due to increased conflict and political instability, hunger, poverty, and an increase in extreme weather events linked to climate change.
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14/10/2017
8 October 2017 (openDemocracy)* – The divestment movement highlights a set of challenges to the future of capitalism that extend far beyond its unsustainable environmental externalities.
New York Fossil Fuel Divestment Rally, Manhattan, 27 March 2014. ©Adam Welz for 350.org /0235.jpg. Flickr/350.org. CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.
The fossil fuel divestment campaign has become one of the most rapidly growing divestment movements in history and has unified an impressive diversity of supporters—from liberal Californian universities to the Rockefeller’s family trust.
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