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TTIP’s ISDS preview via the ICSID (or keeping people in the dark with acronyms)
The TTIP (The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership) aka US-EU Free Trade Agreement together with the TTP (same, for the Pacific Rim) are the biggest threats today to national sovereignty and democracy. If imposed big corporations will be able to…
Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot
“Remember, remember, the 5th of November; Gunpowder, treason and plot; I see no reason why gunpowder, treason; should ever be forgot.” Thus opens BBC’s rundown on this still celebrated day in England and Pressenza leans on the institution of the…
Philippines: Manila students greet indigenous Lumad caravan
Hundreds of students from various Manila universities gathered on Wednesday, November 4, to express solidarity with the Lumad indigenous peoples from Mindanao. (See previous article: http://www.pressenza.com/2015/10/philippines-lumad-people-under-threat-by-australias-xstrata-copper-company/ ) Among those gathered to welcome them at Liwasang Bonifacio were students from University…
Exposed by Wikileaks: the US empire according to itself
For many people, it is easier, safer and more comfortable to live in a world of delusion, particularly when this delusion requires no effort to seek out and understand truths that might prove unpalatable. If the delusion is one that…
UK government must end arms sales and political support for Egypt’s General Sisi
As Egyptian autocrat General Sisi arrives in London, Campaign Against Arms Trade has called for the UK government to end arms sales to his regime and stop the political support that bolsters it. Andrew Smith of Campaign Against Arms Trade…
The gathering financial storm is just one effect of corporate power unbound
By George Monbiot for The Guardian Governments are liberating global corporations from the rule of law and leaving them to rip the world apart What have governments learned from the financial crisis? I could write a column spelling it out.…
Why You Should Stand With Andy Hall
Imagine facing the prospect of going to jail for seven years and being ordered to pay $11 million in damages because you spoke out about slavery-like practices? Labour rights activist Andy Hall faces charges triggered by research he conducted that…
Palestine: the teacher as pivot point for change and challenging trauma
Teaching with Theatre in Adversity: Issam Sahori Issam Sahori is a teacher in a village near Bethlehemin in the occupied Westbank, here he tells ProMosaik about his students: “My project is about how to protect students and children from violence…
Ecuador to pay $1 billion dollars in compensation to US oil company
Ecuador was today notified by the Annulment Committee of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) of the final decision regarding the request for annulment of an award decided in October 2012 in a case brought by a…
Thankfulness and gratitude for individual and social well being (now Science also says so)
“Whenever you find great strength, joy, and kindness in your heart, or when you feel free and without contradictions, immediately be internally thankful. When you find yourself in opposite circumstances, ask with faith, and the gratitude you have accumulated will…
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