Water
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Pambazuka News 573: Special Issue: Ending violence against women and girls in Africa
8 March 2012 — Pambazuka News PAMBAZUKA NEWS 573: SPECIAL ISSUE: ENDING VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS IN AFRICA The authoritative electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social justice in Africa Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 9 February 2012: The 'Water Occupation' of Palestine
9 February 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Netanyahu Refuses EU Demands To Release Detainees IMEMC – Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, rejected demands presented by representatives of the European Union (EU) to release a number of Palestinian political prisoners under a confidence-building measure that would also increase popular support to president Continue reading
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Video: Blue Gold World Water Wars (2008)
This award winning documentary directed by Sam Bozzo is based on the book BLUE GOLD: THE FIGHT TO STOP THE CORPORATE THEFT OF THE WORLD’S WATER by Maude Barlow and Tony Clark. The film examines the problems created by the privatization and commoditization of water. Contains 30 minutes of bonus material, including deleted scenes and… Continue reading
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In Kenya, flowers for Europe reap hunger and destruction By Tony Iltis
As the global population approaches 7 Billion, we’re seeing an increasing number of articles declaring that overpopulation is responsible for all of the world’s ills. Africa in particular is regularly singled out as a continent where population growth causes poverty and famine. As this article shows, population growth is a minor issue, compared to the… Continue reading
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Dahr Jamail: Environmental Disaster in the Gulf of Mexico – The Escalation of BP's Liability
During a recent discussion in his office, Blanchard told Al Jazeera that the fishing waters off Louisiana are only producing one per cent of the shrimp they formerly produced. ‘Half of the local fishermen have shut down,’ he stated. ‘They are dying. And [as] for the fishing, every day they are hauling dead porpoises in… Continue reading
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9.11 with Samir Amin A Video Conference Moderated by Biju Mathew
The target here . . . is not only oil, because they already have control of this oil, but more importantly water, the immense water resources of Libya. . . . And a third is to establish in Libya permanent US military bases, in order for AFRICOM, which is still based in Stuttgart, Germany, to… Continue reading
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Pure Evil: NATO Attacked Libyan Water Supply Pipeline and the Factory that Makes Replacement Pipes By Scott Creighton
Last week Pravda reported that NATO attacked the Great Manmade River pipeline in Libya which literally brings water across the desert to millions of Libyans and farms in western and southern Libya as well as to the capital Tripoli and Benghazi. The Manmade River project is not only a life-sustaining source of water for millions… Continue reading
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NATO War Crime: Libya Water Supply By Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey
If NATO’s contribution to protecting civilians is bombing their water supply then the world community will respond to this heinous war crime, whether or not the politicians do. Continue reading
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Syria: Marches in Most Governorates to Support Reforms, Reject Misleading Media and Foreign'Intervention
Popular activities continued in the Syrian governorates to express support for the reform program under the leadership of President Bashar al-Assad, rejection of misleading media channels and any foreign intervention in the Syrian internal affairs. Continue reading
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Fukushima Predicted: Regulatory Commission was Warned for Years By Arnie Gunderson
For more than six years, in testimony and in correspondence with the NRC, Mr. Gundersen has disputed the NRC’s stand that containment systems simply do not and cannot leak. The events at Fukushima have proven that Gundersen was correct. Continue reading
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Scandal at the IMF and the Gaza Flotilla Selected Articles
24 May 2011 — Global Research Scandal at the IMF Former Head of IMF Dominique Strauss-Kahn accuses Vladimir Putin of Being Part of a Plot to Have him Fired from his Post – 2011-05-23 Continue reading
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Flow the trailer
Salina builds a case against the growing privatization of the world’s dwindling fresh water supply with an unflinching focus on politics, pollution, human rights, and the emergence of a domineering world water cartel. Interviews with scientists and activists intelligently reveal the rapidly building crisis, at both the global and human scale, and the film introduces… Continue reading
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Haiti: The catastrophe continues By G. Dunkel
The situation for the homeless in Port-au-Prince is so grim that a 10-minute rain storm with high winds on Sept. 24 left at least five people dead, hundreds injured and thousands of shelters tents, tarps and sheets destroyed. As of Sept. 26 the government had not reported the toll for towns outside of the capital. Continue reading
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Child confronts Israeli forces over father’s detention By Zuheir Al-Shaer
Video footage of a four-year-old child begging Israeli forces to release his father from detention on Monday has circulated the globe. Badran Jaber, the child’s grandfather, told Ma’an his son-in-law was detained after objecting to Israeli bulldozers overturning fields planted with vegetables near the illegal Kiryat Arba settlement. Continue reading
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The Bank Loan That Could Break South Africa's Back By Patrick Bond
Notwithstanding South Africa’s existing $75 billion foreign debt, last Thursday the World Bank added a $3.75bn loan to Eskom for the primary purpose of building the world’s fourth-largest coal-fired power plant, at Medupi, which will spew 25 million tons of the climate pollutant carbon dioxide each year. Continue reading
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South Africa: Momentum against climate-destroying World Bank loan grows By Patrick Bond
In an indication that the climate justice movement is broadening, deepening and going local, there is now intense opposition to a climate-destroying energy loan for South Africa. The campaign is led by community activists in black townships allied with environmentalists, trade unionists and international climate activists. Continue reading
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Billionaires and Mega-Corporations Behind Immense Land Grab in Africa By John Vidal
Ethiopia is one of the hungriest countries in the world with more than 13-million people needing food aid, but paradoxically the government is offering at least 7.5 million acres of its most fertile land to rich countries and some of the world’s most wealthy individuals to export food for their own populations. Continue reading
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VIDEO: Fighting against water privatisation in South Africa
12 October, 2009 — LeftClick Water is Ours (Amanzi Ngawethu) 10 mins (Medium 20MB) Authorship: Coalition Against Water Privatisation, Centre for Applied Legal Studies, Anti-Privatisation Forum, Friction Films, Unitarian Universalist Service Committee. http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/ExternalVideo.885984 more about “LeftClick: VIDEO Fighting against wat…“, posted with vodpod Continue reading
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The Nile Water… When would water go after gas to the Zionist state? BY Ali Hattar
What is taking place regarding the Nile’s water is not a simple matter… Without exaggeration… It is as important as war itself… Lieberman, the foreign minister of the wrathful Zionist entity, is taking a tour around African countries that are connected with the Nile… and before time elapses, and before those who are in charge… Continue reading
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Video: Israelis restrict Palestinians’ water supply
Video: After World Bank issues report, commissioned by the Palestinian Authority on the condition of water accessibility in the West Bank, Israel claims the reports authors are biased. To understand the conditions on the ground, how they’ve been addressed, and whether the so-called peace process succeeded in addressing them, The Real News speaks to LifeSource… Continue reading
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