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Environment, Health, Human Rights, Politics, UN, World

Amid Dual Crises of Climate and Covid-19, World Leaders Told ‘Empty Words Will Not Help Us’

"Despite promising statements, the [Petersberg] dialogue did not result in firm commitments to a green and just recovery." by: Jessica Corbett, German Federal Environment Minister Svenja Schulze participates in the virtual Petersberg Climate Dialogue XI on April 24, 2020. (Photo: BMU/Christoph Wehrer) As the year's first major meeting of climate ministers—held virtually due to the coronavirus pandemic—wrapped up Tuesday, climate campaigners welcomed world leaders' calls for a "green recovery" from the ongoing public health crisis but demanded that the lofty rhetoric be matched by ambitious, detailed plans and actions. "This pandemic has upended climate diplomacy and climate meetings until next year but countries, especially major emitters, must continue working t...
The Diabolical “Game” with Fear as an Instrument of Domination. The Reflex of Obedience
Health, Politics, World

The Diabolical “Game” with Fear as an Instrument of Domination. The Reflex of Obedience

By Dr. Rudolf Hänsel Anxiety is a widespread phenomenon that often accompanies people from the earliest days of childhood until old age. It is part of life and has many causes. When unscrupulous despots – whether medieval popes, modern dictators or so-called philanthropists – stir up this everyday fear from outside, they are concerned with satisfying their own greed for power and subjugating the peoples. In doing so they are “doing the work of the devil”. Most people react to this diabolical “game” of the rulers with a reflex of obedience or even with unconditional submission. At present, totalitarian governments fuel people’s fear of a virus and aggravate the problem by denying freedom to their citizens and isolating them from their fellow citizens. Neurological anxiety disorde...
Low-Balling the Unemployed in the Era of the 2020 Great Recession
USA, World

Low-Balling the Unemployed in the Era of the 2020 Great Recession

By Dr. Jack Rasmus This past Friday, May 8, the US Labor Dept. released its latest jobless figures. The official report was 20 million more unemployed and an unemployment rate of 14.7%. Both mainstream and progressive media reported the numbers: 20 million more jobless and 14.7%. But those numbers, as horrendous as they are, represent a gross under-estimation of the jobless situation in America! One might understand why the mainstream media consistently under-reports the jobless. But it is perplexing why so many progressives continue to simply parrot the official figures. Especially when other Labor Dept. data admits the true unemployment rate is 22.4% and the officially total unemployed is 23.1 million. US unemployment rate (Source: Trading Economics) Here’s w...
Will the Current Serious Economic Recession Evolve into a Full-fledged Global Economic Depression?
Health, Politics, World

Will the Current Serious Economic Recession Evolve into a Full-fledged Global Economic Depression?

By Prof Rodrigue Tremblay “I was 21 and looking for work in 1932, one of the worst years of the Great Depression, and I can remember one bleak night in the Thirties when my father learned on Christmas Eve that he’d lost his job. To be young in my generation was to feel that your future had been mortgaged out from under you – and that’s a tragic mistake we must never allow our leaders to make again. Today’s young people must never be held hostage to the mistakes of the past.”  —Ronald Reagan (1911-2004), American actor and politician, former Governor of California and 40th U.S. President, 1981-1989, (in an address to the Nation, on Oct. 13, 1982.) “In the Great Depression in which I grew up and remember vividly, unemployment was over 25 percent, and over 35 percent...
This is Not a Conspiracy, It is a Terrifying Opportunity
Health, Politics, World

This is Not a Conspiracy, It is a Terrifying Opportunity

by BRAD EVANS “To create an event is thus to reject whatever is now nothing more than a ‘thirdworlding of human societies’, representing a shift from the EXOCOLONISATION of erstwhile empires to the ENDOCOLONISATION of the terminal empire”.– Paul Virilio, City of Panic, 2005“There will be in the next generation or so a method of making people love their servitude and producing dictatorship without tears so to speak. Producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda, or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution.”– Aldous Huxley, ...
Human Rights, Politics, USA, World

‘Cruel and Outrageous’: DeVos Blocks Undocumented Students From Receiving Coronavirus Emergency Aid

"This is what [it's] like to be an immigrant under Trump." byJulia Conley, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos unveiled new guidance Tuesday which excludes undocumented students from receiving emergncy assistance through a new $6 billion program for college students amid the coronavirus pandemic. (Photo: Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images) Immigrant rights groups on Wednesday condemned the Trump administration's decision to block undocumented students from a $6 billion aid program that the Education Department unveiled earlier this month, calling the exclusion needlessly "cruel." To supplement $14 billion included in the CARES Act last month for postsecondary institutions and students, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos released $6.2 billion for cash grants ...
World COVID-19 Lockdowns Harmfully Impacting Millions of Children
Health, Human Rights, UN, World

World COVID-19 Lockdowns Harmfully Impacting Millions of Children

Lack of access to healthcare, domestic life, education, increased presence online, are among the areas in which children could possibly be harmed.  Millions of children worldwide are being vulnerable to countless threats due to the lockdowns arising from the global coronavirus pandemic, a new United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) report has revealed Thursday.  RELATED: Children Political Prisoners Face Hell in Egypt The document called “The Impact of COVID-19 on children” details the different areas in which children could possibly be harmed, including lack of access to healthcare, domestic life, education, and risks as a result of an increased presence online.  About 60 percent of all children around the world are currently i...
A call to arms: This May Day, fight together against imperialism
Campaigns, Politics, United Kingdom, World

A call to arms: This May Day, fight together against imperialism

Workers’ parties sign international revolutionary anti-imperialist manifesto. Party statement One hundred and thirty years have passed since the international working class began demonstrating around the world to honour the Chicago martyrs and reaffirm their rights as workers every 1 May. That workers’ demonstration in that US city in May 1886, which was repressed by the police, made it clear that the demands of the oppressed class (eight hours of work, eight hours of rest and eight hours of recreation) must be accompanied by the political demand for a new social system to replace capitalism. Otherwise, they would not be achieved or would be inadequate for humanity to live. Almost a century and a half after those days, the workers, peasants, intellectuals, indigenous ...
Health, UN, World

Warning of ‘Hammer Blow’ From Pandemic, UN Food Agencies Say Coronavirus Could Double Global Levels of Acute Hunger

A new report states 265 million people could face food insecurity by the end of 2020, up from 130 million last year.  byJulia Conley, Soacha's Mayor Juan Carlos Saldarriaga, delivers food to the community during the mandatory quarantine to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus in Soacha, Colombia on April 15, 2020. Colombia extended its national lock down until April 26 to control spread of COVID-19. (Photo: Leonardo Munoz/VIEWpress via Getty Images) Top food security experts at the United Nations on Tuesday will present to the U.N. Security Council a new report on how the global coronavirus pandemic could double the number of people around the world suffering from acute hunger unless wealthy countries step up humanitarian aid immediately.  The World Food Pr...
Europe, Health, Human Rights, Politics, World

WHO warns against immunity passports as Europeans governments begin easing restrictions

A family wearing face mask to protect of the coronavirus go for a walk at Carlos III promenade, in Pamplona, northern Spain. On Sunday, children under 14 years old will be allowed to take walks with a parent for up to one hour and within one kilometre from home, ending six weeks of complete seclusion AS SOME European countries eased distancing measures, the World Health Organisation (WHO) warned against the idea of coronavirus immunity passports as a safe way out of lockdown today. Many countries were hoping to start issuing risk-free certificates to people who have recovered from Covid-19, allowing them to return to work and travel. The plan was based on the assumption that survivors of the infection develop immunity. But the WHO said today that there is no evidence yet that...