Israel kieltää maahan pääsyn Israelin tai sen tuotteiden boikottia kannattavilta – ihmisoikeusjärjestöt arvostelevat Ihmisoikeusjärjestöt arvostelivat tiistaina Israelin uutta lakia, joka kieltää maahan pääsyn Israelin boikotoimista julkisesti kannattavilta ulkomaalaisilta. Israelin parlamentti hyväksyi kiistellyn lakiehdotuksen myöhään maanantai-iltana. Laki kieltää viisumien ja oleskelulupien myöntämisen ulkomaalaisille, jotka ovat julkisesti kannattaneet Israelin tai sen siirtokuntien boikotointia. Se koskee yksityishenkilöitä ja boikottiliikkeeseen kuuluvien ryhmien edustajia. Esimerkiksi niin sanottu BDS-kampanja (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) vaatii Israelin boikotoimista ja talouspakotteiden asettamista palestiinalaisalueiden miehityksen vuoksi. ”Viime vuosina vaatimukset Israelin boikotoimisesta ovat vahvistuneet. Ei ole selvää, milloin uusi laki tulee voimaan. Useat kansalaisjärjestöt arvostelivat uutta lakia pyrkimykseksi vaientaa oikeutetut poliittiset mielipiteet. Yhdysvaltalainen Jewish Voice for Peace vertasi lakia jopa presidentti Donald Trumpin
The United Nations Research and DebateIn two teams, you will research and be ready to discuss the following question:-Has the UN been successful to promote a more peaceful world? When preparing for your debate, look for data to support or refute the above statement. Here are a few places to find a little more information just to start:Check out the United Nations website. There is a plethora of information regarding policy, history and even current reports with infographics. Take some time to also read the "UN at a Glance" page. The United States' Department of State website also has intriguing detailed regarding the milestones of the United Nations.
A history of global living conditions in 5 charts - Our World In Data This is the introduction to Our World in Data – the web publication that shows how global living conditions are changing. This text was previously titled "A history of global living conditions in 5 charts". A recent survey asked “All things considered, do you think the world is getting better or worse, or neither getting better nor worse?”. In Sweden 10% thought things are getting better, in the US they were only 6%, and in Germany only 4%. What is the evidence that we need to consider when answering this question? I. To see where we are coming from we must go far back in time. 30 or even 50 years are not enough. Take a longer perspective and it becomes very clear that the world is not static at all. To avoid portraying the world in a static way – the North always much richer than the South – we have to start 200 years ago before the time when living conditions really changed dramatically. Researchers measure extreme poverty as living with less than 1.90$ per day. II. III. IV. V. VI.
ROAR Magazine This article has been translated into Turkish by the comrades at Fraksiyon.org. The introduction to the new book The Next Revolution: Popular Assemblies and the Promise of Direct Democracy (Verso, 2015), explains how Murray Bookchin – born to Russian Jewish immigrants in New York City in 1921 – was introduced to radical politics at the age of nine when he joined the Young Pioneers, a Communist youth organization. This would be the start of his ‘life on the left’ in which he would turn from Stalinism to Trotskyism in the years running up to World War II before defining himself as an anarchist in the late 1950s and eventually identifying as a ‘communalist’ or ‘libertarian municipalist’ after the introduction of the idea of social ecology. The Next Revolution includes the 1992 essay The Ecological Crisis and the Need to Remake Society. The PKK was inspired by Marxist-Leninist thought and fought for an independent Kurdish state that would be founded upon socialist principles. Dual Power
aamulehti 1. ”Lännen imperialistit” ja ”rauhanomainen Neuvostoliitto” Kävin kouluni Suomessa, ja kouluvuosieni aikaan luokkien seinillä roikkui karttoja, joissa Suomen rajat olivat selvät, samoin Neuvostoliiton, mutta Viroa kartalla ei näkynyt. Kartalla näkymätöntä valtiota ei ole olemassa muille – johtui se kartalla olemattomuus mistä tahansa. Sellaisesta maasta on hankala kertoa ulkopuolisille, samoin sellaisen maan kansalaisten kokemista vääryyksistä tai uhista. Sellaisen maan olemassaoloa on hankala todistaa, sillä sitä ei voi todistaa kartalla, joka roikkuisi luokkahuoneessa, olisi painettu koulukirjaan tai sanomalehteen, eikä lipulla. Kartoista jää myös voimakas visuaalinen muistijälki, joka kantaa kauas. Läntisissä naapurimaissamme ja Neuvostoliitossa käytettiin samanlaisia karttoja: niitä, joissa ei näkynyt itsenäistä Viroa tai muita Baltian maita. Aamulehti vieraili Sofi Oksasen kanssa Tallinnassa vuonna 2012. Pasi Leino Sofi Oksanen Turun kirjamessuilla vuonna 2014. 2. Kemin Kuvaamo 3.
White House Meeting With Egypt’s Tyrant Highlights Key Trump Effect: Unmasking U.S. Policy Krugman believes — or at least wants his Democratic followers to believe — that supporting and praising savage despotism in Egypt is a new development that only happens in “Trump’s America.” The Washington Post’s neoconservative columnist Jackson Diehl this morning encouraged Post readers to believe in the same fairy tale, complaining in his column about the “ugly scene” of a “love-in” between Trump and “the most repressive dictator in Egypt’s modern history.” What neither Krugman nor Diehl ever once mentions — either because they’re unaware of it or want to conceal it from their readers — is that the U.S. has been supporting, funding, and arming the Sisi tyranny for years under the Obama administration. In 2015, the official Twitter account of the U.S. Embassy celebrated the delivery of fighter jets to the Sisi regime and even encouraged people to watch a video of them majestically flying over Cairo: Photo: Egyptian Presidency/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
I thought nothing in Russia could shock me. Then I went to a television broadcast | Angus Roxburgh | Opinion It takes a lot to shock me in Russia, after 45 years of studying it. But this month my blood ran cold. Not because I watched innocent kids being hauled off the street by thuggish riot forces, and not because I was myself arrested and questioned by police for seven hours – though those incidents played a part – but because of what I witnessed in a Russian state television studio. On “Russia day”, 12 June, thousands of people protested in central Moscow against Vladimir Putin and his kleptocratic clique. A week later, I found myself in the provincial city of Nizhny Novgorod. We were chatting to a representative of Putin’s own party over breakfast in our hotel when a posse of plainclothes cops, accompanied by a cameraman, gatecrashed our meeting and escorted us from the premises. My interrogator could not grasp the concept of a “study tour”. They seemed to know everything about me – even that I had been expelled from the Soviet Union in 1989.
Bill Browder's Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing Could Explain Anthony Scaramucci's Bizarre Behaviour | HuffPost UK Terrorismin torjunta lähtee tunteista | Tiede Vuonna 1971 Stanfordin yliopiston sosiaalipsykologi Philip Zimbardo päätti tehdä kokeen. Hän sulki yliopiston kellarikerrokseen pystytettyyn käyttäytymislaboratorioon 24 vapaaehtoista miesopiskelijaa, jotka psykologisten testien perusteella olivat tavallisia, tasapainoisia ihmisiä. Hän arpoi joukon kahteen ryhmään ja määräsi toisen jäsenet vangeiksi ja toisen jäsenet vanginvartijoiksi. Zimbardon koeasetelmaa on arvosteltu epäeettiseksi, eikä sitä tieteen nykynormeilla varmaan sallittaisikaan. Tässä on läksy terrorismista huolestuneelle maailmalle. Haussa oma merkitys Yllätys voi olla sekin, ettei uskonnolla välttämättä ole kovin suurta merkitystä radikalisoitumisessa. Juuri sitä islamistiset terrorijärjestöt lupaavat. Ne kutsuvat ihmisiä taistelemaan valtayhteisön epäoikeudenmukaisuutta vastaan. Sekin tiedetään, että valtaosa radikalisoituvista vierastaa väkivaltaa, kunnes se vähin erin normalisoituu. Viha vahvistaa vihaa Tässäkin piilee läksy. Lue lisää
Urban Warfare Escalates in Turkey’s Kurdish-Majority Southeast - WSJ SILOPI, Turkey—War has returned to this remote southeastern city, transforming dusty streets into a battleground as surging violence between Turkish security forces and Kurdish separatists threatens to kindle a level of urban warfare not seen for two decades. Masked militants linked to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, have dug explosive-laden trenches and raised barricades in Silopi, which sits on a border where Turkey, Syria and Iraq meet. Each day, Turkish special forces play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with armed Kurdish youths, firing tear gas and live rounds in a bid to reassert control of several neighborhoods. “When we peeked from the window, we saw police shooting randomly after the youth ran through our yard,” said Idris Yavsam, a 39-year-old employee at the local mosque in Silopi who recounted one day earlier this month. A government official said Tuesday that the scale and the nature of the clashes require more than usual anti-riot measures.Mr.
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