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We Need Their Voices Today! Chapter (7) The Marquis de Condorcet
<https://human-wrongs-watch.net/2017/07/08/we-need-their-voices-today-chapter-7-the-marquis-de-condorcet/>*Human
Wrongs Watch <https://human-wrongs-watch.net/>**By John Scales Avery**
*John Scales Avery, author of this book: We Need Their Voices
Today! has generously granted Human Wrongs Watch permission to publish it
in a series of chapters. This is Chapter 7: The Marquis de Condorcet. The
others will follow successively. *
*A vision of human progress*
In France the Marquis de Condorcet had written an equally optimistic book,
“Esquisse d’un Tableau Historique des Progres de l’Esprit Humain”.
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Is Religion the New Colonial Frontier in International Development?
<https://human-wrongs-watch.net/2017/07/05/is-religion-the-new-colonial-frontier-in-international-development/>*Human
Wrongs Watch <https://human-wrongs-watch.net/>**By Azza Karam*
<http://www.ipsnews.net/author/azza-karam/>*
*UNITED NATIONS, Jul 4 2017 (IPS <http://www.ipsnews.net/>) – A decade ago,
it was difficult to get Western policy makers in governments to be
interested in the role of religious organizations in human development. The
secular mind-set was such that religion was perceived, at best, as a
private affair. *
*At worst, religion was deemed the cause of harmful social practices, an
obstacle to the “sacred” nature of universal human rights, and/or the root
cause of terrorism. In short, religion belonged in the ‘basket of
deplorables’.*
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Peaceful Societies – Where Are They?
<https://human-wrongs-watch.net/2017/07/05/peaceful-societies-where-are-they/>*Human
Wrongs Watch <https://human-wrongs-watch.net/>**By Johan Galtung**
*3 July 2017 – TRANSCEND Media Service –
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2017/07/peaceful-societies-where-are-they-2/>There
are many of them–of different kinds–in world geography. We can try to
identify the characteristics of their peacefulness.*
Or we can start by identifying belligerent societies and then see peaceful
societies as their negations. Let us try this one first.
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Why War? Building on the Legacy of Einstein, Freud and Gandhi
<https://human-wrongs-watch.net/2017/07/05/why-war-building-on-the-legacy-of-einstein-freud-and-gandhi/>*Human
Wrongs Watch <https://human-wrongs-watch.net/>**By Robert J. Burrowes**
*DAYLESFORD, Australia, 5 June, 2017 – In 1932, Sigmund Freud and Albert
Einstein conducted a correspondence subsequently published under the title
‘Why War?’ See ‘Why War: Einstein and Freud’s Little-Known Correspondence
on Violence, Peace, and Human Nature’
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/2015/04/why-war-einstein-and-freuds-little-known-correspondence-on-violence-peace-and-human-nature/>.*
In many ways, this dialogue between two giants of the 20th century is
symbolic of the effort made by many humans to understand that perplexing
and incredibly damaging feature of human experience: the institution of war.
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Climate Change-Poverty-Migration: The New, Inhuman ‘Bermuda Triangle’
<https://human-wrongs-watch.net/2017/07/08/climate-change-poverty-migration-the-new-inhuman-bermuda-triangle/>*Human
Wrongs Watch <https://human-wrongs-watch.net/>**By Baher Kamal
<http://www.ipsnews.net/author/baher-kamal/>**
*ROME, Jul 7 2017 (IPS <http://www.ipsnews.net/>) – World organisations,
experts and scientists have been repeating it to satiety: climate change
poses a major risk to the poorest rural populations in developing
countries, dangerously threatening their lives and livelihoods and thus
forcing them to migrate.*
Also that the billions of dollars that the major industrialised
powers—those who are the main responsible for climate change, spend on
often illegal, inhumane measures aiming at impeding the arrival of migrants
and refuges to their countries, could be devoted instead to preventing the
root causes of massive human displacements.
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U.S. “Dumping” Dark Meat Chicken on African Markets
<https://human-wrongs-watch.net/2017/07/06/u-s-dumping-dark-meat-chicken-on-african-markets/>*Human
Wrongs Watch <https://human-wrongs-watch.net/>**By Friday Phiri*
<http://www.ipsnews.net/author/friday-phiri/>*
*MPUMALANGA, South Africa, Jul 6 2017 (IPS <http://www.ipsnews.net/>) – The
United States and Europe’s preference for white meat is hurting Africa’s
poultry industry, says Luc Smalle, manager at the agro firm Rossgro in
South Africa’s Mpumalanga area.*
With 3000 Ha of maize and 1000 Ha of soya, as well as 1,500 heads of beef
cattle, Rossgro mills its own feed, which also caters for millions of
chickens housed in 40 environmentally controlled houses.
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Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons Adopted After 20 Years of Negotiations
<https://human-wrongs-watch.net/2017/07/08/treaty-banning-nuclear-weapons-adopted-after-20-years-of-negotiations/>*Human
Wrongs Watch <http://human-wrongs-watch.be/>*
*Countries meeting at a United Nations conference in New York on 7 July
2017 adopted the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, the first
multilateral legally-binding instrument for nuclear disarmament to have
been negotiated in 20 years.*
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Rising Cholera, Diarrhoea and Malnutrition ‘Deadly’ for Children in Yemen,
South Sudan, Somalia and Sudan
<https://human-wrongs-watch.net/2017/07/05/rising-cholera-diarrhoea-and-malnutrition-deadly-for-children-in-yemen-south-sudan-somalia-and-sudan/>
*Human Wrongs Watch <https://human-wrongs-watch.net/>*
*4 July 2017 – Access, funding and security are urgently needed to ensure
humanitarians can reach hundreds of thousands of children suffering from
cholera and diarrhoea across Yemen, South Sudan, Somalia and Sudan, the
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF <http://www.unicef.org/>) has said.*
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Gonorrhoea Becoming Harder to Treat due to Antibiotic Resistance – UN
<https://human-wrongs-watch.net/2017/07/08/gonorrhoea-becoming-harder-to-treat-due-to-antibiotic-resistance-un/>*Human
Wrongs Watch <https://human-wrongs-watch.net/>*
*Gonorrhoea is becoming harder to treat due to antibiotic resistance, the
United Nations health agency on 7 July 2017 cautioned, adding that there is
a need for better prevention and treatment of the disease that infects an
estimated 78 million people each year.*
*PLEASE, DON'T MISS THESE NEWS AND VIEWS*
We Need Their Voices Today! Chapter (5) William Godwin
<https://human-wrongs-watch.net/2017/07/02/we-need-their-voices-today-chapter-5-william-godwin/>*Human
Wrongs Watch <https://human-wrongs-watch.net/>**By John Scales Avery**
*John Scales Avery, author of this book: We Need Their Voices
Today! has generously granted Human Wrongs Watch permission to publish it
in a series of chapters. This is Chapter 5: William Godwin. The others will
follow successively. *
*Political Justice*
In 1793 the English novelist and philosopher William Godwin published an
enormously optimistic book, “Political Justice”. As the eighteenth century
neared its end, this book became the focus of hopes for political reform
and the center of the debate on human progress.
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Freud-Einstein on Peace
<https://human-wrongs-watch.net/2017/06/28/freud-einstein-on-peace/>*Human
Wrongs Watch <https://human-wrongs-watch.net/>**By Johan Galtung**
*26 June 2017 – TRANSCEND Media Service —
<https://www.transcend.org/tms>“Why War?” was the title of an interchange
of letters between Sigmund Freud and Albert Einstein, starting
with Einstein’s letter to Freud dated “Caputh near Potsdam 30 July 1932
<http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/sub_document.cfm?document_id=3864>“,
answered by Freud from “Wien September 1932” (Why War- Freud)
<https://www.transcend.org/tms/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Why-War-Freud.pdf>.
Soon 85 years ago. What can we still learn from these giants, and what
might they have learned in the meantime?*
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Southeast Asia: From Miracle To Debacle
<https://human-wrongs-watch.net/2017/07/02/southeast-asia-from-miracle-to-debacle/>*Human
Wrongs Watch <https://human-wrongs-watch.net/>**By Jomo Kwame Sundaram*
<http://www.ipsnews.net/author/jomo-kwame-sundaram/>*
*KUALA LUMPUR, Jun 29 2017 (IPS <http://www.ipsnews.net/>) – The World Bank
and other influential international financial institutions and development
agencies have been touting Southeast Asian (SEA) newly industrializing
countries as models for emulation, especially by African developing
countries seeking to accelerate their development transformations. *
*But these recommendations are usually based on misleading analysis of
their rapid growth and structural transformation.*
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The Bizarre Case of Bashar
<https://human-wrongs-watch.net/2017/07/02/the-bizarre-case-of-bashar/>*Human
Wrongs Watch <https://human-wrongs-watch.net/>**By Uri Avery**
*01.07.2017*
CONAN DOYLE, the creator of the legendary Sherlock Holmes, would have
titled his story about this incident “The Bizarre Case of Bashar al-Assad”.
And bizarre it is.
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Did Arab Coalition Threaten to Pull Out of UN in Protest?
<https://human-wrongs-watch.net/2017/06/29/did-arab-coalition-threaten-to-pull-out-of-un-in-protest/>*Human
Wrongs Watch <https://human-wrongs-watch.net/>**By Thal
<http://www.ipsnews.net/author/thalif-deen/>if Deen*
<http://www.ipsnews.net/author/thalif-deen/>*
*UNITED NATIONS, Jun 28 2017 (IPS <http://www.ipsnews.net/>) – When Saudi
Arabia – which has been spearheading a coalition of Arab states in a
devastating war against Yemen since 2015 – was accused of bombing
civilians, and particularly children caught up in the conflict, the
government in Riyadh threatened to cut off humanitarian funding to the
world body.*
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China Drives Nuclear Expansion in Argentina, but with Strings Attached
<https://human-wrongs-watch.net/2017/06/28/china-drives-nuclear-expansion-in-argentina-but-with-strings-attached/>Human
Wrongs Watch <https://human-wrongs-watch.net/>*By Daniel Gutman*
<http://www.ipsnews.net/author/daniel-gutman/>*
*BUENOS AIRES, Jun 27 2017 (IPS <http://www.ipsnews.net/>) – Two new
nuclear power plants, to cost 14 billion dollars, will give a new impetus
to Argentina’s relation with atomic energy, which began over 60 years ago.
President Mauricio Macri made the announcement from China, the country that
is to finance 85 per cent of the works.*
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Any Way to Help Slow Down Climate Change… Individually?
<https://human-wrongs-watch.net/2017/06/27/any-way-to-help-slow-down-climate-change-individually/>*Human
Wrongs Watch <https://human-wrongs-watch.net/>*
*ROME, Jun 27 2017 (IPS <http://www.ipsnews.net/>) – It is no secret that
the biggest responsible for climate change is greed. The greed of the
world’s largest private corporations, which blindly seek unlimited high
financial benefits. And the greed of those politicians who are also blindly
keen about holding their temporary power at any cost, thus not daring to
challenge big business. Ordinary people can meanwhile help slow down such a
hellish race.*
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Top 300 Cooperatives Generate 2.5 Trillion Dollars in Annual Turnover, More
than France’s GDP
<https://human-wrongs-watch.net/2017/07/02/top-300-cooperatives-generate-2-5-trillion-dollars-in-annual-turnover-more-than-frances-gdp/>*Human
Wrongs Watch <https://human-wrongs-watch.net/>*
*Cooperatives help to build inclusive economies and societies, and can help
to eliminate poverty and reach the other Sustainable Development Goals
(SDGs <https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdgs>), the head of the United
Nations labour agency on 1 July 2017 said, marking the International Day of
Cooperatives.*
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