Catégorie : Politics

Published on Russia Today RT, Sept 20, 2013 (with a video, 3.34 min).

… The Syrian village of Maaloula is considered a symbol of Christianity in Syria and is one of only a few places where the Aramaic language – believed to have been spoken by Jesus Christ – is still used by both the Muslim and the Christian residents. Home to some 2,000 residents, the village is on a UNESCO list of proposed world heritage sites.    Continuer la lecture de « Tales from village-turned-battlefield: Maaloula siege survivors talk »

Published on Zcommunications, by John Pilger, September 19, 2013.

The most important anniversary of the year was the 40th anniversary of 11 September 1973 – the crushing of the democratic government of Chile by General Augusto Pinochet and Henry Kissinger, then US secretary of state. The National Security Archive in Washington has posted new documents that reveal much about Kissinger’s role in an atrocity that cost thousands of lives.   Continuer la lecture de « In an Age of Realists and Vigilantes, there is Cause for Optimism »

Published on ROARMAG.org, by Leonidas Oikonomakis, September 17, 2013 (inclusive two short-videos);

… Of course, this indirect privatization of public schools was downplayed by the state-controlled (or vice-versa?) Mexican media, which focused on the “quality controls” finally imposed on the “lazy and privileged” teachers. The teachers on their own turn mobilized, organized marches and bloqueos and — most importantly — occupied the main square of the capital in thousands since the 19th of August 2013. The teachers’ mobilization lasted for three weeks until his highness, the Butcher of Atenco — a.k.a. Enrique Peña Nieto — ordered the police to brutally evict the teachers from the Zócalo, on 14 September 2013.  Continuer la lecture de « What Greece’s and Mexico’s teachers have in common »

Seralini validated by new EFSA guidelines on long-term GMO experiments – Published on GMwatch.org, Comment by Claire Robinson of GMWatch and Earth Open Source, 31 July 2013.

The European Food Safety Authority  (EFSA) has issued guidelines for two-year whole food feeding studies to assess the risk of long-term toxicity from GM foods: Considerations on the applicability of OECD TG 453 to whole food/feed testing, EFSA Journal 2013;11(7):3347 [18 pp.]. – doi:10.2903/j.efsa.2013.3347   Continuer la lecture de « GMOs: controversy and a new study by EFSA over the next 2 years »

zur Lage in Deutschland, von 62cherry99 im September 2013 hochgeladen: Teil 1, 14.31 min; Teil 2, 10.34 min.