Emmerson‘s report offers a chilling account of drone strikes in Afghanistan, Yemen, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Pakistan and Gaza, documenting numerous incidents of civilian deaths at the hands of U.S. attacks and other world powers.
Having just returned from Islamabad, Pakistan, he explains that the Pakistan ministry of foreign affairs has documented over 330 drone strikes since 2002 that have killed 2,200 people, 400 of them civilians.
Why is this important?
Today, large numbers of heavily armed RCMP officers used pepper spray, tear gas, dogs and rubber bullets on a peaceful Miâkmaq blockade in New Brunswick. The blockade was set up to protest an unpopular shale gas fracking plan that threatens the regionâs water supply.
Thousands of Romanians protested on Saturday against plans by U.S. energy group Chevron to explore for shale gas in a poor eastern region and a Canadian company‘s project to set up Europe‘s biggest open cast gold mine in a Carpathian town.
Unauthorized global surveillance has had everyoneâs outrage directed at the NSA. But a recent revelation by the Dutch sheds light on how Europeâs own otherwise forgotten data retention law was systematically abused by its telecom and internet providers.
âWir möchten unsere Partner darauf aufmerksam machen, dass in Deutschland, aber auch in anderen Teilen des âdemokratischen Europaâ rechtsextremistische, neonazistische und xenophobische Stimmungen immer stĂ€rker werdenâ, fuhr Dolgow fort. Als Beispiel fĂŒhrte er AktivitĂ€ten des sogenannten national-sozialistischen Untergrundes, dessen Mitglieder im Laufe von Jahren AuslĂ€nder unbestraft töten konnten. âNach trĂ€gem Charakter des in diesem Fall in Deutschland eingeleiteten Strafprozesses zu urteilen, wird diese Gefahr von den deutschen Behörden nicht in vollem MaĂe erkanntâ, schrieb der russische Diplomat.
Dolgow erinnerte ferner daran, dass unwĂŒrdige Aufenthaltsbedingungen fĂŒr FlĂŒchtlinge in Deutschland von Menschenrechtsorganisationen ernsthaft kritisiert werden. FlĂŒchtlinge seien wĂ€hrend der PrĂŒfung ihrer AsylantrĂ€ge (die mitunter Jahre dauert) in ihren Rechten eingeschrĂ€nkt, sie dĂŒrften ihren Aufenthaltsort nicht verlassen. Zudem hĂ€tten die FlĂŒchtlinge keine Erwerbs- und Bildungsrechte sowie erhielten keine adĂ€quate medizinische Hilfe, hieĂ es in dem Kommentar.
Here in the U.S., we hold up Colorado and Washington as being models of future marijuana policy. Where they legalized recreational marijuana, creating regulated and taxed systems, the majority of states are still trying to determine how to implement medicinal pot. In Uruguay, however, lawmakers have taken one big step towards creating a nationwide regulated marijuana industry, and theyâve done it despite the resistance of the people.
While it‘s great news that Congress is seeking to address the problem of over-criminalization with a focus on undue sentencing and burdensome regulations, it must address where the majority of adult offenders begin: juvenile detention centers. It‘s time we restore every school‘s role as a sanctuary of learning.
A group of anti-coup Egyptians living in exile have published advertisements in European newspapers as the start of a campaign against the military coup and dictatorship in their homeland.
his is a photo of telephone electricians learning to climb poles in 1914. There‘s a WWI pole/Pole joke to be made here, but I leave that as an exercise to the reader. In any event, these dudes are living the dream.
Activists from 26 countries are taking to the streets on Saturday to protest fracking technologies that extract hydrocarbons by pumping pressurized chemicals underground. They say fracking contaminates groundwater and hastens climate change.
A spokesman for British Prime Minister David Cameron said the PM âagrees with the principleâ of sending such messages and acknowledged that the wording of the message has changed since the first texts were sent.
The campaign is ongoing and has cost the UK ÂŁ40 million ($64 million). Hundreds of complaints have come in, partly because of messages that included smiley faces and wished immigrants a âpleasant journey.â
Known as conflict palm oil, much of the palm oil produced in Indonesia and Malaysia is done so by wiping out huge swaths of rainforest to plant palm. For many, one of the most disturbing effect from this is the eradication of orangutans in their natural habitat.
An Italian court has banned former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi from parliament for two years following his conviction for tax fraud, Italian media reported Saturday. Berlusconi can appeal the ruling, which must be approved by the Senate.
Thousands of people took to the streets of Rome on Saturday for an anti-austerity protest, with a massive security presence in place amid fears of clashes.
„We are laying siege to the city!“ a group of students chanted as they marched through Rome, while others waved rainbow peace flags and held up banners from a variety of leftist movements.
Noch Staatsminister im Kanzleramt, demnÀchst Cheflobbyist bei Daimler: Eckart von Klaedens umstrittener Jobwechsel könnte jetzt auch rechtliche Folgen haben.
The American professor of linguistics was speaking at a seminar organised by the Egyptian Students Association in New York when he made his comments. He said that a military regime cannot build a state and pointed out that it is inaccurate to refer to âEgyptiansâ as if everyone in Egypt is thinking the same way; theyâre not, and it is misleading to suggest otherwise, he claimed. Professor Chomsky urged the army leaders to avoid using the term âthe peopleâ to give credibility to the action that they took in July.
Some security sources said the bomb was planted in a car belonging to a doctor who lived in a nearby building.
(17.10.) Last week, the Glover Park Group (GPG) filed lobbying registration forms with the US Department of Justice, stating that the firm will âprovide public diplomacy, strategic communications counsel and government relations servicesâ for the Egyptian regime headed by General Abdulfattah al-Sisi, The Hill reported.
As Middle East Monitor points out, a managing director of GPG is Arik Ben-Zvi.
âBen-Zvi served in the Israeli Defense Forces and received his degree in History and Political Science from Tel Aviv University,â according to GPGâs website.
According to Israeli Channel 2, Egyptian Air Force F-16s were authorized to fly over the Gaza-Israel border area, as part of the military operations Cairoâs military is conducting against terrorist groups in the Sinai Peninsula.
It was the first time since Cairo and Tel Aviv signed the peace agreement in 1979.
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It was a show of force in keeping with the ambitions of American law firms that increasingly see the European Unionâs vast apparatus as a vital lobbying opportunity for themselves and their multinational corporate clients.
DarĂŒber haben wir im Rahmen des Die-Recherche-Projekts Agenda 2017 diskutiert, mit Betroffenen, Experten und Ihnen.
#Mindestlohn
CDU-GeneralsekretĂ€r Hermann Gröhe sowie CSU-Chef Horst Seehofer erlĂ€uterten heute bei einer gemeinsamen Pressekonferenz das Angebot nĂ€her: „Ob jetzt alle Geringverdiener Deutschlands zusammenlegen oder ob die SPD selbst das Geld auf unsere Parteikonten ĂŒberweist, ist uns vollkommen egal. Wichtig ist nur, dass der Betrag stimmt, der keinen Einfluss auf unsere Entscheidung haben wird“, so Gröhe.
Rund 238 000 Luxemburger sind an diesem Sonntag aufgerufen ein neues Parlament zu wĂ€hlen. Die vorgezogene Neuwahl war notwendig geworden, nachdem der sozialdemokratische Koalitionspartner MinisterprĂ€sident Jean-Claude Juncker das Vertrauen entzogen hatte. Juncker hatte sich geweigert, die Verantwortung fĂŒr eine GeheimdienstaffĂ€re zu ĂŒbernehmen
In Rom herrscht nach den Protesten vom Freitag angespannte Stille.
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Um MĂŒttern bessere Möglichkeiten zur Erziehung ihrer Kinder zu geben, unterstĂŒtzte sie die Forderung nach einem Erziehungsgeld oder auch nach einem Mindestlohn fĂŒr die VĂ€ter, der das Existenzminimum der Familie decken mĂŒsse.
Nach lebhafter Debatte lehnte die Nationalversammlung die AntrÀge von SPD, USPD und DDP genauso ab, wie einen Antrag der USPD, das gesamte Gesundheitswesen zu verstaatlichen und einem Reichsgesundheitsministerium zu unterstellen.
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