Two hundred and sixty names of babies whose age was 0; names of babies who didn’t get to celebrate their first birthday, nor will they ever celebrate anything else. Here are some of their names: Abdul Jawad Hussu, Abdul Khaleq Baba, Abdul Rahim Awad, Abdul Rauf al-Fara, Murad Abu Saifan, Nabil al-Eidi, Najwa Radwan, Nisreen al-Najar, Oday al-Sultan, Zayd al-Bahbani, Zeyn al-Jarusha, Zayne Shatat. What dreams did their parents have for them? Then there are hundreds of names of one- and two-year old children; toddlers three or four years of age; children who were five, six, seven or eight, up to the youths who were 17 when they died.
Austerity
Owen Jones: Austerity kills: this week’s figures show its devastating toll
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EU politics
Euronews: Poland’s parliament elects centrist party leader Donald Tusk as prime minister
Donald Tusk has achieved his ambition. Let’s see what he does with it, if anything. Read the full article HERE.
Climate Crisis
Bill Mitchell: Modest (insipid) Green New Deal proposals miss the point – Part 2
The response to climate change can only be a robust economic, political, and social revolution, but we have a lot of people tinkering on the edges. Read here Read Part 1 here
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