Tag Archives: human rights

Incarceration and gang culture

In 1992 Venezuela was the richest country in the Western Hemisphere., due to its massive oil reserves, drilled by American oil companies. Below, an extract from the BBC obituary of Chavez, 5 March 2013 Father’ Fidel With his fiery revolutionary … Continue reading

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The Right to Peaceful Protest: against those who abuse human rights

I am reproducing this piece by Robert Reich. I fear what happened in Nazi Germany and more recently in the Arab Spring may be about to happen in the United States. Who would ever have thought this could become a … Continue reading

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Latest from Global Witness

Global Witness Press release | Sept. 10, 2024 More than 2,100 land and environmental defenders killed globally between 2012 and 2023 Share thisTweetShare FacebookShare LinkedIn Read this content in:FrançaisPortuguêsEspañol  Land and environmental defenders Tuesday 10 September 2024, London – At least … Continue reading

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1918: Peace not War

After the horrors of WW1 many countries tried to come together to forge peace. But, somehow, along the way, those who saw the possibility of weapons manufacturing as a means to create jobs and bring wealth, won the arguments. Now, … Continue reading

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US: Social Democracy coinciding with Jim Crow

In the US, after WWII, the way to peaceful coexistence between North and Southern States was to exclude any benefit to African Americans, despite their contribution during World War II. https://www.history.com/news/black-soldiers-world-war-ii-discrimination The Republican Right had been opposed to Franklyn D … Continue reading

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Pro Human Rights North African Journalists targeted by malware infection

The Pegasus book (by Richard and Rigaud) describes the Kafkaesque experience of a young Moroccan investigative journalist, Omar Radi. June 22, 2020: Forbidden Stories posted a story of the Pegasus attack on Omar Radi…..2 days later, Omar was summoned to … Continue reading

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Pegasus continually updated

2019: WhatsApp sues Israeli firm, accusing it of hacking activists’ phones https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/oct/29/whatsapp-sues-israeli-firm-accusing-it-of-hacking-activists-phones ……August 5, 2020, from somebody in senior management at the NSO Group. Cherie Blair, former First Lady of the United Kingdom, longtime barrister, noted advocate for women entrepreneurs … Continue reading

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Finite Resources: land grabs – is it all about oil?

As we humans covet what fossil fuels still lie in the ground, we literally battle to obtain them, no matter what doom laden messages COP28 might proclaim about incurring a planet on fire. Apparently we are now ‘transitioning’ away from … Continue reading

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Loss

I begin by quoting a paragraph from the newsletter of Butterfly Conservation: Sadly, as our State of Butterflies 2022 reported earlier this year, 80% of butterfly species have decreased since the 1980’s – this drop is telling us that our … Continue reading

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Fight the cause of the refugee crisis

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