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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

Swedes: eating less beef is key to meeting climate targets

EU climate targets won’t be met unless greenhouse gas emissions linked to beef and dairy consumption are dramatically reduced, a Swedish study published on Monday said.

Alfred W. McCoy: How a Pink Flower Defeated the World’s Sole Superpower – Guernica / A Magazine of Art & Politics

Long and good on analysis – very, very short on plausible solutions.

Even in troubled Afghanistan, however, there are alternatives whose sum could potentially slice through this Gordian knot of a policy problem. As a first and fundamental step, maybe it’s time to stop talking about the next sets of boots on the ground and for President Obama to complete his planned troop withdrawal. Next, investing even a small portion of all that misspent military funding in rural Afghanistan could produce economic alternatives for the millions of farmers who depend upon the opium crop for employment. Such money could help rebuild that land’s ruined orchards, ravaged flocks, wasted seed stocks, and wrecked snowmelt irrigation systems that, before these decades of war, sustained a diverse agriculture. If the international community can continue to nudge the country’s dependence on illicit opium down from the current 13% of GDP through such sustained rural development, then perhaps Afghanistan will cease to be the planet’s leading narco-state and just maybe that annual cycle can at long last be broken.

Source: Alfred W. McCoy: How a Pink Flower Defeated the World’s Sole Superpower – Guernica / A Magazine of Art & Politics

Egyptian Aak 2016 – Week 7 ( Feb 15-21)

“That a private citizen can file moral charges against an author for fictional work in #Egypt makes culture hostage to the stupidest citizen”

Nervana

Top Headlines

  • Egypt author jailed for violating ‘public modesty.’ Saturday
  • Egyptian-Arab military exercises commence in Saudi Arabia. Sunday
  • Hundreds protest in Cairo over police shooting. Friday
  • Egypt’s El Nadeem Centre for rehabilitation of torture victims challenges possible shutdown. Thursday

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