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06/11/2018

As the Empire Crashes

Human Wrongs Watch

By David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service*

As the American empire begins to crash, capitalism becomes desperate and takes off its gloves. We see its fist; all of the characteristics of the culture of war carried to extreme. In fact, that is the simple nature of fascism, the culture of war carried to extreme.

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Dr. David Adams

Trump in the USA, Erdogan in Turkey, now Bolsonaro in Brazil. The capitalists finance their campaigns in a desperate effort to protect their wealth.

History is repeating. Hitler, too, was backed by big capitalists at a time when the Weimar Republic was failing.

This is not generally known because the records of German industry for that period are kept secret and the unfortunate historian who tried to document this back in the 1980’s, a young graduate student at Princeton named David Abraham, was drummed out of the profession as a reward for his research.

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06/11/2018

Why We Need to Protect Biodiversity from Harmful Effects of War and Armed Conflict

Human Wrongs Watch

6 November 2018 (UN Environment)* – Times of war can result in rapid environmental degradation as people struggle to survive and environmental management systems break down resulting in damage to critical ecosystems.

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Photo from UN Environment. 

For over six decades, armed conflicts have occurred in more than two-thirds of the world’s biodiversity hotspots thus posing critical threats to conservation efforts.

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06/11/2018

South Sudan – Thousands of Seedlings of Indigenous Trees Distributed to Schools and Public Meeting Places to Counter Climate Change

Human Wrongs Watch

5 November 2018 – Some 5,000 seedlings of trees indigenous to South Sudan are being distributed to schools, sports centres and other public meeting places by the UN peacekeeping mission in the country, UNMISS, as part of its commitment to countering climate change.

UNMISS/Eric Kanalstein | Trees donated by the UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan, UNMISS are planted at the Exodus Junior Academy in the capital, Juba. (October 2018)

Mango, lemon, guava, and teak trees were planted by school children in October at the Exodus Junior Academy in the capital, Juba.

The headmaster of the school, Sokiri Ambamba George, said the trees will enhance his students’ understanding of the environment.

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05/11/2018

A World without US (Empire) Killing?

Human Wrongs Watch

By Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service*

Obviously, we are not there yet.  And it may take some time.  There is much resilience in that construction, and in the US itself.

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Johan Galtung

But some signs are unmistakable.  The US is (kind of) pulling out of the world–of East Asia, Afghanistan, and some of West Asia–“Middle East” as seen by London–setting up camp in North America.

In what this column for decades has referred to as MEXUSCAN; a neutral listing from south to north of the three countries.

However, Washington calls it UMC, for US-Mexico-Canada with itself first (of course), then come Latin Mexico and Anglo Canada.

Not quite incidentally, “UMC” also stands for the US Marine Corps, and its head general was delighted.

Leaving that aside, however:  from seeing itself as being on top of the world to being on top of only North America is a rather major “pulling out”.

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05/11/2018

The Future of Work and the Future of Poverty

Human Wrongs Watch

By Alf Gunvald Nilsen*

5 November 2018 (openDemocracy)* — Global production networks create economic growth, and thus are often said to be good for development. But if that’s true, why do so many poor people live in middle-income countries? 
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Neil Moralee/Flickr. (cc-by-nc-nd)

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05/11/2018

Trump Accuses Saudi Arabia of Unskillful Use of US Weapons in Yemen

Human Wrongs Watch

WASHINGTON, 5 November 2018 (Sputnik)* – US President Donald Trump accused Saudi Arabia of unskillful use of US weapons in Yemen, citing the August attack on a bus carrying Yemeni school children, in an interview for Axios.

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Trump, King Salman of Saudi Arabia, and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi at the 2017 Riyadh summit in Saudi Arabia | The White House from Washington, DC– President Trump’s Trip Abroad | Public Domain

On August 9, an airstrike carried out by the Saudi-led coalition in Saada, northern Yemeni province, hit a bus carrying children from a summer camp, killing over 50 people, most of them minors.

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05/11/2018

‘Grim Irony’: Saudi Strikes Uses British Intel to Destroy UK Aid Facilities in Yemen

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4 November 2018 (teleSUR)* – A vital cholera treatment center in Abs, in the Hajjah province, was hit in June in airstrikes which are supported by British intelligence, reported by the Independent.
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British-backed Saudi bombing destroyed Oxfam facilities in Yemen, said the United Kingdom charity.

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04/11/2018

Yemen, “A Living Hell for Children”

Human Wrongs Watch

This is a summary of what was said by Geert Cappelaere, UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today’s press conference in Amman, following his visit to Yemen. 

On 14 March 2018 in Aden City, Yemen, a child is displaced from Taiz because of the conflict.
UNICEF/UN0188083/Mohammed | On 14 March 2018 in Aden City, Yemen, a child is displaced from Taiz because of the conflict.

AMMAN, 4 November 2018 (UNICEF)* – “I want this moment with you, distinguished colleagues, partners in the media, to be in memory of Amal. Amal’s emaciated body was last week on the cover of the New York Times and shocked the world.

But now sadly, she passed away on the 1stof November as you all know. Unfortunately, Amal is not the only Yemeni child suffering that fate.

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04/11/2018

3,114 People Died or Have Gone Missing on Migratory Routes across the Globe in 2018 – IOM

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Berlin, 2 November 2018 (IOM)*  – IOM’s Missing Migrants Project (MMP) estimates that at least 3,114 people died or have gone missing on migratory routes across the globe in 2018.  The Mediterranean region, the Middle East, North Africa and the Americas rank among the planet’s deadliest migration corridors, each zone tallying confirmed fatalities of at least 100 in 2018 (see chart below), some into the thousands.

At least 219 people have died on their journey during the month of October, most recently two migrants whose remains were discovered in South Texas along the US-Mexico border.

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03/11/2018

#EleccionesBrasil: 5 Insecurities Behind the Victory of Jair Messias Bolsonaro

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By DemocraciaAbierta*

1 November 2018 — Economy, Politics, Violence, Identity, Information: 5 insecurities that could explain, in part, the incontestable triumph of Bolsonaro, whose extreme political positions plunge the country into a state of security shock. Español

Billboard for Bolsonaro’s presidential campaign. Almanaque Lusofonista & Creative Commons Attribution.

The election of the extreme-right candidate Bolsonaro to the presidency of Brazil consolidates the wave of right-wing governments that have been recently dominating the election cycle throughout the region: Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, Peru, Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras..They all opted for a right-wing political drift, away from the “pink tide” of the 2000’s.

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