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The business of building walls
Nov 15, 2019 06:45As Europe marked the fall of the Berlin Wall, it is tragic that so many new walls have been built across Europe to keep out the most vulnerable people on the planet.
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Seeds of Europe’s ‘migrant crisis’ are in Europe itself
Oct 29, 2019 21:53If you ask African migrants in Europe who came across the Mediterranean Sea in a boat if they would make the journey again, most of them would say “yes.” Many of them had been in vans and trucks that took them across the dangerous Sahara Desert, and many of them had been on board vessels that struggled to get across the choppy waters. They might have seen their fellow migrants die of thirst or of drowning, but none of that halts their conviction that they’d cross the sands and the seas again.
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What we eat determines our health and future
Oct 23, 2019 13:12It is important for us to change our approaches in terms of the food we produce, process and consume. At the governmental level, countries must expand their agriculture policies beyond staple food production to include investments and research on crops such as fruits, vegetables, and legumes.
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Electric cars could be just another ecological disaster
Oct 17, 2019 08:57It seems, scientists and politicians in the industrialized world, are pushing the world to the edge of the precipice through their haphazard inventions and weird policies that are damaging the natural environment irreparably.
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Why is Europe still fueling the war in Yemen?
Oct 09, 2019 17:18Despite attempts to ban arms exports, European countries remain important weapons suppliers to Saudi Arabia and the UAE, and thus accomplices in the war crimes against the people of Yemen.
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Amid global crackdown on refugees
Jan 04, 2019 18:57The world is pulsing with hundreds of millions of people desperate to flee their homes under the weight of the crisis of world capitalism. According to a recent Gallup study, a sixth of the world’s adult population—some 750 million people, not including children—want to flee their home countries to escape war, poverty, conflict and disease.
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End of gloomy 2018, start of unpredictable 2019
Jan 01, 2019 16:47A New Year has started in the West and is considered official by the United Nations and its sister agencies, as well as most of the world dominated by the North America-West Europe nexus.
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Rising China is changing Europe’s geopolitical landscape
Dec 28, 2018 10:18Over the past decade, China has become central to the world economy. Building on its economic successes, it is becoming increasingly central in world politics. China is also now aiming to establish itself as not just a regional but a global power.
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US supplying LNG gas to Europe is more hot air than reality
Aug 18, 2018 17:14In his latest effort to present himself as bigger than better than all other presidents combined, in stark contrast to the likes of George Washington, Donald Trump has announced that the US will build more than 10 liquid gas ports in the EU. The trouble is, even if he did this, it would not be possible to sustain such a program.
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Exploited, hated, killed: The lives of Africans in Europe
Aug 11, 2018 14:56Africa, which the white Europeans exploited for centuries, looting its rich natural resources and reducing its people to poverty and backwardness, is still the victim of Europe’s racist policies as is evident by the hundreds of thousands of Africans who braving the hazards of drowning and human trafficking, land on the northern shores of the Mediterranean in the hope of a better life, but find no reprieve to their economic woes and hardships in countries they had viewed as utopia.