By Dilyana Gaytandzhieva
21st Century Wire
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The US Army regularly produces deadly viruses, bacteria and toxins in direct violation of the UN Convention on the prohibition of Biological Weapons.
It is possible to feed more than 9 billion people with organic production methods with a small increase in the required crop acreage and with decreased greenhouse gas emission. But this assumes considerable reduction in food wastage and in the quantities of feed grown to animals. That is the conclusion in the paper Strategies for feeding the world more sustainably with[Read More...]
I don't go in for identity politics at all. Voting for someone because they were born a woman, gay, of any particular religion, Asian or black, for example, is not my cup pf tea. Nor is voting for someone who is a veteran, a scientist, a doctor or part of any age group. Take women. Women make up 51% of the population but just 22% of the Senate and 19% of the House. That's outrageous.
“Love saves lives.” – This is the slogan for the 2018 March for Life in Washington D.C.
This statement is simple and utterly profound. When spoken by the President of the United States it is even more profound, and to top it all off, when spoken by the first US President ever to make a public appearance at a pro-life rally – THE pro-life rally, the 2018 March for Life.
President Donald Trump took to the podium to speak to America and to the world about the sanctity of life.
O, gamla klang och jubeltid! Blir du tårögd när du hör den gamla klangen? Blir du full av längtan när du tänker på jubeltiden? Då kan vi berätta att de gamla gudarna lever än, bland skålar och pokaler, på Konservativa Måndagsklubben (KMK).
KMK är ett sällskap för Uppsalaromantiker, nostalgiska nördar och Bellman-fans som hittar på roliga saker tillsammans. Vår idé är att förena glädje och bildning. Vi kallar oss musketörer (och musketriser) och har som vårt motto valt ”En för alla, alla för en”.
Citizens’ Enquiry finds rising rates of kidney failure, deaths in villages surrounding IREL’s monazite processing facility in Chatrapur Block, Ganjam District Reports of unusually high rates of chronic kidney disease and death due to kidney failure in a cluster of villages in Chhattrapur Block of Ganjam District of Odisha state, India have recently been covered by The Wire and a[Read More...]
The United States is effectively bankrupt, but that doesn’t matter to the GOP. Once evangelists of fiscal responsibility and scourges of deficit spending, Republicans today glory in spilling red ink. The national debt is now $20.6 trillion, greater than the annual GDP of about $19.5 trillion. Alas, with Republicans at the helm, deficits are set to continue racing upwards, apparently without end.
Well, it was to be expected, sooner or later, and many people brought this story to my attention (thanks to all of you). And…
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It may not be possible to completely turn the tide in 2018, but the first tentative moves could be made to put the relationship back on track. Opportunities to maintain and expand dialog at all levels, whenever possible, between officials, lawmakers, experts, think tanks, and public organizations, should not be missed.
After a week of violent demonstrations in several large cities and small towns, Maj. Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari, commander-in-chief of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), announced that the “sedition” has been defeated. It will take some time to accurately understand the roots of this violence and how it will impact Tehran’s domestic and foreign policies.
From Palestine to Botswana and Haiti to Britain, Trump’s actions have made the United States a pariah and outlier. There is very little U.S. diplomats can do, but be called in by foreign ministries to be lectured on good manners, propriety, and behavior. Today, every American should feel absolute shame in their president and their country.
I wish Caryl Churchill would write a follow up to her play Seven Jewish Children and call it Seven Palestinian Children. Churchill’s play, first produced in February of 2009, was “for Gaza”, and was predictably received along political lines, either as a “heartfelt lamentation” on one side and “wantonly inflammatory” on the other — inflammatory in the same way as the[Read More...]
I spent much of yesterday with some kids the world forgot. Young, remarkably sturdy and resilient,theycan often be naïve and almost willfully gullible. They inhabit a world that delights in tripping them up and watching them fall. They are Kabul’s Street Kids. Every Friday morning, roughly 100 of these forgotten children sit in noisy – sometimes raucous – groups of[Read More...]
I told Dr. [Bernice] King that we must keep making our voices heard. Not in hate – but in strength and determination. Because the fights over discrimination, over voting rights, over criminal justice, over economic and environmental justice – these fights are not relics of history. We are in these fights right now, every single day. As her father [M.[Read More...]
Inquisitive observers of the Middle Eastern politics would naturally wonder why do Western powers prop up the Gulf’s petro-monarchies, knowing fully well that they are the ones responsible for nurturing Islamic extremism? Does this not run counter to their professed goal of eliminating Islamic radicalism and terrorism? Seemingly, the Western powers support the Gulf’s autocrats because it has been a[Read More...]
-by NoahOK, let's talk about Stormy Daniels. For those of you who have been vacationing in Siberia or fishing for the rare Arapaima in the headwaters of the Amazon, Stormy is the porn star who slept with Señor Trumpanzee and got $130,000 for her troubles. Not only that, she slept with this sweaty, orange ball of slimy follicle-challenged ectoplasm for a year, a whole eff-ing year! Really, can you imagine 5 minutes? 2 minutes? 30 seconds?
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Igor Morgulov has said that his country was supplying military equipment to Pakistan. Morgulov’s statement came on Thursday (Jan 18) in a geo-political conference organized jointly by the Indian Ministry of External Affairs and an Indian think-tank Observer Research Foundation (ORF). The Russian Minister was joined in the discussion by the Indian Minister of State[Read More...]
Ay Chaand Yahan Na Nikla Kar! Yeh Des Hai Andhe Lougoo Ka! (O! moon. Do not Rise here! Our’s is a country of Blinds!) These verses of Habib Jaalib are a fair display of our contemporary world. The[Read More...]
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The pairs of feet that passed him by in a second
Equals 2 x 60x 60x24x 766 = 13,23,64,800, say 13 crores.
The 2011 census pegs the population of Kerala at 3.33 crores.
Which shows that Kerala trampled over him
four times in 766 days,
without seeing him.
That’s statistics for you.
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Recently, there was violence in Maharashtra on 1st January 2018 as persons carrying saffron flags attacked people at Bhima Koregaon. In the violence a person died, many injured and vehicles were damaged. The propaganda by rightwing media is to attribute the violence to ‘instigating speeches’ by younger activists who had gathered. The saffron attempt at depicting violence in Bhima Koregaon[Read More...]
Kamal Haasan has called for strengthening a Pan Indian Dravidian identity and asked the chief ministers of all the South Indian States : Tamilnadu, Kerala, Puducherry, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana to have a join front so that they can have regional autonomy as well as act as a front against the north Indian Aryan dominance. As per a report[Read More...]
Source : Robert Parry, Consortium News, 01-12-2017
Les procureurs du Russie-gate ont eu la peau de l’ancien conseiller à la sécurité nationale, le général de corps d’armée à la retraite, Michael Flynn, accusé d’avoir menti au FBI. Cependant cette affaire nous montre jusqu’à quels dangereux extrêmes on est allé dans ce « scandale », nous dit Robert Parry.
Open letter to Shri Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India 200 ANNIVERSAY OF THE BATTLE OF BHIMA- KOREGAON AND CONTINUING ATROCITIES AGAINST DALITS AND MINORITIES IN INDIA This open letter by UK organisations listed at the end call on you, the Prime minster of India, to take action against the perpetrators of violence against Dalits. We also call on you[Read More...]
With the instrumental value of education acquiring center-stage in today’s world, it is being increasingly and more and more vociferously argued that forging and fostering strong education-industry linkages is the need of the hour.
The recent dastardly incidents of the rape and murder of Zainab in Kasur, Pakistan, Ayesha in Mardan, Pakistan, Asifa in Kathua, two young girls in Jind and Panipat in Harayana, and also the unabated rape incidents in other parts of India, have and must shock us all. Here in Kashmir, as we are yet to come to terms with the[Read More...]
The murder of a Pashtun man in Karachi by the Sindh police last week has brought renewed attention to the brutal practices of Pakistan’s police and security forces. According to his relatives, Naqeebullah Mehsud, a 27-year-old from the war-torn region of South Waziristan, was kidnapped by plainclothes police officers in Karachi earlier this month. On January 16, Mehsud’s family was[Read More...]
I was impressed by the pleasant ambience of the Trivandrum railway station and the bus depot for long distance travel which is just across the road. This is how public transport should be but this has become so rare due to the callousness of our politicians and bureaucrats. The whole area is clean. And travel is really seamless. I[Read More...]
Joan: I hear voices telling me what to do. They come from God. Robert: They come from your imagination. Joan: Of course. That is how the messages of God come to us. — from Shaw’s Saint Joan No matter whether one believes in God, I should think that everyone who’s been paying attention to our horrid societal and environmental momentum[Read More...]
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“In some sections of South Africa 38% of men, two in five, admit to having forced a woman to have sex, but what’s going on in Cape Town right now is at least just as bad as that kind of widespread violation, worse than the coltan slavery.” — one of the author’s home schooled teenage students In the most recent[Read More...]
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Source : Proche & Moyen-Orient, Richard Labévière, 03-01-2018
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*First, I may be delayed in getting tomorrow's rant written and published. I have some business in the morning and afternoon to attend to, and therefore the rant may be sent out either later in the day or in the "worse case scenario" by Monday....
By Margaret Kimberley | Black Agenda Report | January 17, 2018 Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has a net worth of $105 billion and is the richest man in the world. But he is not just the richest man at this moment in history. He is the richest person who has ever lived. As of 2017 […]
ജൈവ വൈവിധ്യ സംരക്ഷണത്തിന്റെയും വനസംരക്ഷണത്തിന്റെയും ഭാഗമായി വനം വകുപ്പ് ട്രക്കിംഗുകളും പരിസ്ഥിതി ക്യാമ്പുകളും ലോകത്താകമാനം സംഘടിപ്പിക്കാറുണ്ട്. എന്നാൽ അവിടെയൊന്നുമില്ലാത്ത വിലക്കാണ് കേരള സർക്കാരും വനം വകുപ്പും അഗസ്ത്യാർ കൂടം ട്രക്കിംഗിൽ സ്ത്രീകൾക്ക് ഏർപ്പെടുത്തിയിരിക്കുന്നത്. ഭരണഘടന ഉറപ്പു നൽകുന്ന സ്ത്രീ പുരുഷ സമത്വം ഒരു സർക്കാർ സംവിധാനം തന്നെ ലംഘിച്ചുകൊണ്ടിരിക്കുമ്പോൾ ഭരണത്തിൽ പങ്കാളികളാവുന്ന രാഷ്ട്രീയ പ്രസ്ഥാനങ്ങളുടെ സ്ത്രീനേതൃത്വങ്ങൾ തങ്ങളുടെ നിലപാട് വ്യക്തമാക്കേണ്ടതുണ്ട്. കേരളത്തിലെ ഉയരം കൂടിയ രണ്ടാമത്തെ മലയാണ് അഗസ്ത്യാർ കൂടം.
Defections from Each Side Balance Out, Leaving McConnell Far Short of 60 Votes Needed; Bernie Sanders: Mitch Needed 60 Votes and Didn’t Have Them, so His Stubborn Refusal to Negotiate Meant Choosing Shutdown; Mueller’s Office Keeps Working; Time to Use Social Media to Make White House, Ryan, McConnell and GOP Hill Thugs Feel the Heat; [...]
Thursday, McClatchy ran a pretty eye-popping piece by Peter Stone and Greg Gordon, FBI investigating whether Russian money went to NRA to help Trump. The jist of it was that Alexander Torshin, the deputy governor of Russia’s central bank-- a Putin crony-- was illegally funneling cash to the Trump campaign via the NRA.
Friday – Jack rants and is joined by Scott Rickard in the first hour. In the second hour Jack’s guest was Tom Creal.
Friday – Jack’s Special guest in the first hour was songwriter and hemp activist Mona Fishman. In hour 2 Jack rants about Dimwit Donnie and takes calls.
Tonight on the show the Boiler gang is back, despite technical issues, discussing the case of a young person who believes she has two personalities, two genders and has to choose between them each day upon waking up, the fracturing of the human psyche as a trauma based mind control tactic, Jerry Seinfield at ‘Anti-Terror Fantasy Camp’ in Israel with his family, a scathing review of Netflix’s latest shows and the social messages contained within, a discussion on the often mischaracterized and highly criticized ‘man-o-sphere’ and mens rights advocates, Black Mirror and contemporary future dys
The change between the time of President Obama and President Trump is drastic. For that matter the change between George W Bush and President Trump is ALSO drastic. Or to Bill Clinton or George HW Bush… even in some ways, compared to “Ronaldus Magnus” as some of us like to call Ronald Reagan, the conservatives’ usual modern ideal.
Right-wing populists are exploiting the migration issue in both the United States and Europe, but dismissing their arguments would be a mistake. Instead, an honest assessment of the economic and regime-change policies that fuel migration is needed, reports Andrew Spannaus.…Read more →
By Maximilian Forte | Zero Anthropology | January 20, 2018 I know that I am not the first person to ask this, but when did universities start having “views”? When some professors indulge their rights to free speech or put academic freedom into practice, they can sometimes express views that some members of the public find […]
By M K Bhadrakumar | Indian Punchline | January 20, 2018 The Syrian war is taking a momentous turn with a full-fledged Turkish military operation on the northern Syrian town of Afrin having begun on Saturday. President Recep Erdogan announced today that a ground operation has also been launched alongside artillery bombardment and air strikes. […]
CHAPTER ONE – NIYOGI AND HIS MISSION[1] I used to say, somewhat in amusement and somewhat grievingly, “I belong to the B-team of Niyogi”. The A-team consisted of Binayak da (Dr Binayak Sen) and Ashish da (Dr Ashish Kumar Kundu). Saibal da (Dr Saibal Jana), Chanchala di ( Dr Chanchala Samajdar) and I used to manage the affairs of the[Read More...]
Yemeni children walk outside a school that was damaged in a Saudi air strike in the southern Yemeni city of Ta’izz. (By AFP) Press TV – January 20, 2018 Germany has stopped selling weapons to Saudi Arabia and almost all of its allies waging war on Yemen, in a decision likely to have both an […]
