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This government was not democratically elected and its not functioning according to the laws of the land (Image posted here from Wall Street International).As Abuse Is Known, Material Assistance Makes Rome Complicit
Photo released by the Libyan Coast Guard showing people disembarking in Libya after being intercepted offshore, June 24, 2018. © 2018 Libyan Coast Guard via AP
Milan – The Italian government should suspend all support to the Libyan Coast Guard until Libya commits to a clear plan to fully respect migrants’ safety and rights, Human Rights Watch said today [12 February 2020].
The EU is aiming to take concrete actions against the Trump Peace Plan in the Middle East | Photo: Reuters (Photo posted here from teleSUR’s article).
11 February 2020 (teleSUR)* — Leftist MEPs on Tuesday demanded concrete actions from the European Union (EU) in favor of Palestine and the end of an association agreement with Israel, following the U.S. plan for the Middle East.
After the supposedly post-racial presidency of Barack Obama, what passes for the liberal punditry discovered racism had arisen in the homeland. They never felt so good feeling bad about racism, denouncing what they identified as its primal cause – Mr. Trump, who was sullying that “shining example” of the United States of America.
Roger Harris
Obscured were those historical antecedents of this “exceptional” republic, founded on the expropriation of indigenous land and extermination of its inhabitants and built in part by African slave labor.
Peculiar Institution of US Racism
Trump has been reprehensible in pandering to white racism. But the Republicans have no monopoly on this franchise. We should remember the legacy of Jim Crow and Dixiecrat Democrats in high office including six US senators and two Supreme Court justices who were members of the Ku Klux Klan.
Nairobi, 10 February 2020 (UN Environment)* – The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has officially started accepting applications for the 2020 Young Champions of the Earth prize.
Fajt, Jiří and Adam Budak (2017) Ai Weiwei: Law of the Journey. Prague: Národní galerie.
– Humans belong to a species that is constantly on the move . Since some Homo Sapiens 125,000 years ago began to move from the African continent, humans can be found all over the world, even in such utterly inhospitable places as the icebound plateaus of Antarctica.
Since taking power Narendra Modi has dismantled the nation’s secular traditions, but there are signs Indians have had enough.
4 February 2020 (openDemocracy)* — On 26 January, India marked the 71st anniversary of its constitution. This year, however, the customary Republic Day celebrations were overshadowed by uncustomary protests.
Greta Thunberg (C) at a climate strike with Sami children in Jokkmokk, Sweden, Feb. 07 2020. | Photo: EFE (Photoposted here from teleSUR’s article).
Thirty years after the adoption of the only international Convention on the rights of indigenous peoples, a new ILO report finds they are still more likely to be poor and face particular hardships in the world of work.
GENEVA, 3 February 2020 (ILO)* – The International Labour Organization (ILO) says there is an urgent need to tackle the high level of poverty and inequalities facing indigenous peoples.
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