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As Saudi Arabia executes Sheikh al-Nimr, will U.S. respond by cutting $50 billion in weapons sales?
After Saudi Arabia executed Shiite cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr on Saturday along with 46 others, protesters in the Iranian capital of Tehran responded by torching part of the Saudi Embassy. On Sunday, Saudi Arabia responded by severing ties with Iran.…
The UK Health Service under attack, doctors strike to defend it
How YOU can support the junior doctors As the BMA announce the first ’emergency care only’ doctors strike in the NHS’s history – your junior doctors need YOU. By Dr Yannis Gourtsoyannis for Open Democracy Junior Doctors across England are…
Why a Freedom Fighter Was Killed to Fit Saudi Arabia’s Hawkish Narrative
Human Wrongs Watch By Catherine Shakdam* 3 January 2016 (RT) – Set up as a modern Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr’s death needs to be seen as a harbinger of war – a ploy that would allow…
Hong Kong: disappearing booksellers… what’s going on?
Joel Christian – @2legit2trip is a politically concerned HongKonger and student who announces he is local in Hong Kong but foreign in China. Active in the #UmbrellaMovement he attends protests and offers updates via Twitter, also with Vine and this…
Punish the Sex Worker or Client? Wrong Question!
Criminalizing clients opens doors to discrimination, police harassment and abuse, and other human rights violations. By Sebastian Kohn, writing for Open Society Foundation Last month, the French Senate voted down a bill that would have shifted criminal penalties from sex…
Peaceful New Year 2016
2016 marks five years since the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami. Peace Boat will continue to support recovery efforts in the region and sail for a nuclear free, sustainable future. 2015 was a historical year marking 70 years since…
Conflict transformation across cultures
The above was the title of a meeting of younger minds in Nepal, December 8-18, 20, as graduate in development studies (University of Dhaka) Arup Barua explains: “The major problems that the world is confronting now are emerging from deep-rooted…
This flood was not only foretold – it was publicly subsidised
By George Monbiot for The Guardian The government pays grouse moor owners to drain their glorified outdoor chicken runs. Meanwhile it’s the proles downstream who get a soaking These floods were not just predictable; they were predicted. There were clear…
Somalia: historical look as ISIS makes recruiting inroads
Fighting amongst neighboring peoples has been endemic throughout the history of humanity. From biblical clashes in Assyria to the civil war raging in Syria today, there is always turmoil brewing between two or more rival ethnic groups. They can take…
The USA is being destroyed by unaddressed problems
America Is Being Destroyed By Problems That Are Unaddressed — Paul Craig Roberts Paul Craig Roberts One hundred years ago European civilization, as it had been known, was ending its life in the Great War, later renamed World War I.…
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