The #Violence of '#Conservation'

The Violence of ‘Conservation’

By Fiore Longo, March 09, 2020

Along with WWF, as well as palm oil and logging conglomerates, UNDP is a sponsor of the $21.4 million conservation project. A sizeable chunk of this funding goes to ‘conservation’ in Messok Dja, where the rest is allocated to TRIDOM, another forest situated across Cameroon, the Republic of Congo and Gabon. Under pressure from activists, the UNDP launched an investigation after receiving letters from the Baka in 2018 and complaints from Survival International (SI).

 

Amid Coronavirus Outbreak, Trump-aligned Pressure Group Pushes to Stop Medicine Sales to Iran

By Eli Clifton, March 09, 2020

With a novel strain of coronavirus rapidly spreading around the world, Iran has been hit particularly hard, with 107 deaths and 3,515 infections recorded so far. Yet the pressure group, United Against Nuclear Iran, is carrying on with its campaign targeting medical trade with Iran despite the Trump administration’s special financial channels for humanitarian goods and medicine to reach the beleaguered country.

 

Israel Confiscates Sole Medical Vehicle Serving 1,500 Palestinians

By Middle East Monitor, March 09, 2020

#US #Muslim Ban, #Venezuela #Crisis, Upcoming #Israeli #Elections

‘Muslim Ban’: Two Years on, Trump’s Order Still Destroying Lives
By Ali Harb and Dania Akkad
Two years after President Donald Trump signed an executive order severely restricting travel from several Muslim-majority countries, the effects of the executive order that came to be known as the Muslim ban, are still happening. Read more...

Trump Floated “Military Option” in Venezuela with Sen. Graham
By Zero Hedge
Military option on the table — that’s what Axios reporter Jonathan Swan was told when discussing the Venezuela crisis with Sen. Lindsey Graham. Read more...

US-Led Economic War, Not Socialism, Is Tearing Venezuela Apart
By Caleb Maupin

#US #HumanitarianNegligence Extends Beyond #Terrorism

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Canada’s Unraveling Web of Deceit. Terrorism and War Propaganda
By Mark Taliano, November 28, 2017
Now that Syria and its allies in the Axis of Resistance have done the world a favour by destroying most of the West’s terror proxies in Syria, the Canadian narrative is falling apart.

Socialism, Capitalism and Health Care
By Prof. James Petras, November 28, 2017
The US political and economic elites have always bragged that capitalism is far superior to socialism in terms of providing people’s personal welfare. They claim that citizens live longer, healthier and happier lives under capitalism.

The American Dream Has Been Irreparably Broken