The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Issue 6 – Winter 2009/2010 “Trafficking in Persons – An affront to human dignity” Issue 5 – Spring 2009 “Rising Food Prices and its Implications on Human Security” Issue 4 – Winter 2008/2009 “Gathering Pace – key developments on human security” Issue 3 – Spring 2008 “The human costs of climate change – a challenge …
Stop Conflict. Save lives. 40 per cent of conflicts will restart within 10 years of a peace treaty being signed. 90 per cent of the people who die in those conflicts are not armed forces, but civilians, many of them children. We need to stop these conflicts from restarting, to stop people from dying. Peace …
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Snapshot of the crisis The 2010 south Kyrgyzstan riots are ongoing clashes between ethnic Kyrgyz and Uzbeks in southern Kyrgyzstan, primarily in the cities of Osh and Jalal-Abad, in the aftermath of the ouster of former President Kurmanbek Bakiyev. It is part of the larger 2010 Kyrgyzstan crisis. Violence broke out on 9 June in …
Somalia anti-piracy patrol: Reuters Africa published a report that European Union foreign ministers are expected to extend the bloc’s anti-piracy mission off the coast of Somalia for another year next week. Rear Admiral Peter Hudson, Commander of the European Union Naval Force Somalia, said he expected a new extension of its mandate which expires in …
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CHUCK SPINNEY SENDS: The American sources in the attached report of the New York Times blast Turkey, essentially because it refuses to be a US lackey. Even the report’s title drips with contempt and reflects a myopia that is typical of the ego centric view of the perquisites of empire held by the American foreign …
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The following is a collection of resources found over the past few years which we thought should be shared: This service is an on-going project to collect and catalogue all graphic products that have been prepared for publications and web-sites from the last 15 years in a wide range of themes related to environment and …
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Author Robert Bryce 92 of 93 people found the following review helpful: Nutrition Action for Energy Appetites, April 16, 2010 By Jon Boone (Oakland, MD USA) – See all my reviews With Power Hungry, energy journalist and Austin apiarist Robert Bryce marshals lots of accurate numbers in context to make plain how modern culture exacts …
