UN votes to outlaw nuclear weapons in 2017
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VIDEO: Palestinian Flag Is Raised at United Nations Headquarters
The Palestinian flag was raised at the United Nations headquarters in New York on Wednesday for the first time. In this video from The Guardian, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says the move signals to the international community that “Palestinian statehood is achievable.” https://youtu.be/BTm0VuV2kzM The Guardian video can be viewed https://embed.theguardian.com/embed/video/world/video/2015/sep/30/palestinian-flag-raised-united-nations-headquarters-video" target="_blank">here. In June, the More
Rwanda and the New Scramble for Africa: From Tragedy to Useful Imperial Fiction
Philpot shows that U.S. and Western intervention in Rwanda was crucial both in preparing the ground for the 1994 bloodbath and in the failure to stop it after it was well underway. Review by Edward S. Herman January 2014 Z Magazine By Robin Philpot Baraka Books (MontrealCA), 273 pp Robin Philpot’s important new More
UN and World Leaders: ‘Surveillance hampers freedoms’
World leaders express concern about reports of mass surveillance by the US BY AYEE MACARAIG ASIA PACIFIC 10/23/2013 7:26 AM | UPDATED 10/23/2013 8:43 AM Rappler.com 'ALARMING CHALLENGES.' World leaders express concern about reports of mass surveillance by the US at the opening of the Internet Governance Forum in Bali, Indonesia. Photo by Ayee Macaraig/Rappler More
Kathy Kelly> From Afghanistan, thank you Bradley Manning! & An appeal from Afghanistan to whistle-blow on war
[youtube=http://youtu.be/lj6RmxdTpPQ] Here are two items from the Afghan Peace Volunteers in Kabul. Access to internet is sporadic there, so I wanted to send these items out on their behalf. —Kathy Kathy Kelly June 18, 2013 From Dr. Hakim and the Afghan Peace Volunteers Recognition that 95 million human beings were killed in World More
Kathy Kelly> From Afghanistan, thank you Bradley Manning! & An appeal from Afghanistan to whistle-blow on war
[youtube=http://youtu.be/lj6RmxdTpPQ] Here are two items from the Afghan Peace Volunteers in Kabul. Access to internet is sporadic there, so I wanted to send these items out on their behalf. —Kathy Kathy Kelly June 18, 2013 From Dr. Hakim and the Afghan Peace Volunteers Recognition that 95 million human beings were killed in World More
Taking notes 17: The good intentions that pave the road to war
"The obsession with 'genocide' as the primary humanitarian issue in the world today relativizes war. It reverses the final judgment of the Nuremberg Trials that: 'War is essentially an evil thing.'" by Diana Johnstone April 2, 2013 PhilosophyforChange.org Opposing genocide has become a sort of cottage industry in the United States. Everywhere, “genocide studies” are cropping More
“HONOUR CRIMES” IN SYRIA
“HONOUR CRIMES” IN SYRIA “It is the issue of “honour” which makes sexual violence such a useful act, particularly in the context of war. It is used to humiliate and to destroy communities by turning those communities against themselves because honour has been violated. This culture of honour is one of the cornerstones in patriarchal More
Video> Damascus finds armed groups responsible for Houla massacre, US does not believe> with Sara Flounders
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4PQ7CT51Mo&w=420&h=315] Damascus finds armed groups responsible for Houla massacre, US does not believe> with Sara Flounders Published: 31 May, 2012 Edited: 01 June, 2012 RT A handout picture released by the Syrian opposition's Shaam News Network shows people watching the mass burial on May 26, 2012 of more than 100 victims killed in the central More
Video> Damascus finds armed groups responsible for Houla massacre, US does not believe> with Sara Flounders
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4PQ7CT51Mo&w=420&h=315] Damascus finds armed groups responsible for Houla massacre, US does not believe> with Sara Flounders Published: 31 May, 2012 Edited: 01 June, 2012 RT A handout picture released by the Syrian opposition's Shaam News Network shows people watching the mass burial on May 26, 2012 of more than 100 victims killed in the central More
RT: Interview with WAMM member Lisa Albrecht re Palestinian statehood
‘US shouldn’t be part of talks over Palestine’s statehood’ Published: 24 September, 2011 RT.com Click here for video: ‘US shouldn’t be part of talks over Palestine’s statehood’ — RT rt.com Mahmud Abbas and Barack Obama (AFP Photo / Mandel Ngan) Lisa Albrecht, associate professor at the University of Minnesota with extensive experience of working with More
Video: “Sometimes we may hurt like the Afghan dove”
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y8bRK5-dM0&w=560&h=349] Uploaded by ourjourneytosmile on Jul 4, 2011 Dear friends in an antagonistic world, In the face of a broken Afghan dove, what can the people ask for? In the face of possible 'doom', what can we ask for? Y Not listen? Y Not Converse? Have conversations between the People and world leaders become so impossible in More