30 December 2019 (UN Environment)* — As the new year dawns, this is the perfect time to reset and rethink.
As you make your New Year’s resolutions, keep the environment in mind.
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30/12/2019
The Number of Haitians Who Do Not Have Sufficient Food to Eat Is Expected to Surpass Four Million in 2020
Human Wrongs Watch
The number of Haitians who do not have sufficient food to eat is expected to surpass four million next year, the UN humanitarian affairs office, OCHA, said on Friday [27 December 2019]. (*).
30/12/2019
2019 Concludes a ‘Deadly Decade’ for Children in Conflict, with Three-Fold Rise in Verified Attacks on Children Since 2010, an Average of 45 Violations a Day
NEW YORK, 30 December 2019 (UNICEF)* – Children continue to pay a deadly price as conflicts rage around the world, UNICEF said today. Since the start of the decade, the UN has verified more than 170,000 grave violations against children in conflict – the equivalent of more than 45 violations every day for the last 10 years.
29/12/2019
Terrorism: A False Threat
Human Wrongs Watch
By John Scales Avery – TRANSCEND Media Service*
Is the threat of terrorism real? Or is it like the barking of a dog driving a herd? The threat of catastrophic climate change is very real indeed. The threat to future global food security is real too.
John Scales Avery
Already 11 million children die every year from malnutrition and poverty-related causes.
The threat to human civilization and the biosphere posed by a possible Third World War is real.
The threat of exhaustion of non-renewable resources and economic collapse is real.
The dangers associated with our unstable fractional reserve banking system are also real. Beside these all too real threats to our future, the threat of terrorism is vanishingly small.
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29/12/2019
For a Fairer Society for All: Need to Cut Child Mortality by a Third in Brazil, Reach Carbon Neutrality in Finland, Redirect Trillions of Dollars to Funds that Promote Sustainability, …
27 December 2019 — Cutting child mortality by a third in Brazil, reaching carbon neutrality in Finland and redirecting trillions of dollars of investment to funds that promote sustainability: these are some examples of initiatives from governments, civil society and the private sector, designed to speed up the UN’s goal of achieving a fairer society for all. (*).
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27/12/2019
Climate Crisis and the 2020 US Elections – Trump and His Party Must Be Defeated
Human Wrongs Watch
26 December 2019 (Wall Street International)* — There are so many things wrong with Donald Trump that one hardly knows where to begin. He is a racist, habitual liar, tax evader, cruel cager of infants, misogynist, narcissist, bully, violator of numerous laws, both national and international, a friend of rich oligarchs and enemy of the poor, to mention only a few of his faults. He has made the United States resemble Germany, Italy or Spain in the 1930s, when fascism was on the rise.
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24/12/2019
2019 Latin America in Review: Year of the Revolt of the Dispossessed
Human Wrongs Watch
By Roger Harris | COHA – TRANSCEND Media Service*
A year ago, John Bolton, Trump’s short-lived national security advisor, invoked the 1823 Monroe Doctrine making explicit what has long been painfully implicit: the dominions south of the Rio Grande are the empire’s “backyard.”
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Yet 2019 was a year best characterized as the revolt of the dispossessed for a better world against the barbarism of neoliberalism. As Rafael Correa points out, Latin America today is in dispute. What follows is a briefing on this crossroads.
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22/12/2019
The Art of Doublespeak: Bellingcat and Mind Control
Human Wrongs Watch
By Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service*
In the 1920s, the influential American intellectual Walter Lippan argued that the average person was incapable of seeing or understanding the world clearly and needed to be guided by experts behind the social curtain. 
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In a number of books he laid out the theoretical foundations for the practical work of Edward Bernays, who developed “public relations” (aka propaganda) to carry out this task for the ruling elites.
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22/12/2019
The Freedom of Lula
By Fernando Ayala*
Political earthquake and great boost for the progressive space of the continent.
21 December 2019 (Wall Street International)* — After 19 months in prison, former Brazilian president Luis Ignacio Lula da Silva was released in the city of Curitiba, where he was serving a sentence of 8 years and 10 months for passive corruption, without the judicial process being concluded.
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