DN: Brussels suspects had ties to dead Algerian resident – Radio Sweden | Sveriges Radio

The three men who have been named as suspects behind the attacks in Belgian were connected with the 35-year-old man who is believed to have been registered in Sweden for several years and who was shot to death last week in a raid outside Brussels, reports Dagens Nyheter. The man, a 35-year-old Algerian national, was shot by a Belgian police sniper after he holed himself up in an apartment in the Forest neighborhood of Brussels. Authorities zeroed in on the man during their four-month-old hunt for suspects linked to the November 13 Paris terror attacks. Dagens Nyheter is reporting that Belgium’s public TV service, RTBF, said the apartment was rented by one of the brothers who are now also suspected in Tuesday’s blasts. Two months before the attacks in Paris the 35-year-old Algerian was also stopped at a road check between Austria and Hungary with the Moroccan national who is considered the mastermind behind the attacks. The second brother, also a suspect in yesterday’s blasts, was also in the vehicle.

Source: DN: Brussels suspects had ties to dead Algerian resident – Radio Sweden | Sveriges Radio

The Success of Greek Structural Reforms by Dimitris Papadimoulis – Project Syndicate

Since July 2015, when Greece and its European counterparts agreed to a new bailout deal, the Greek government has made immense efforts to implement structural reforms under tight deadlines. And while the reforms have at times been controversial, they have also been successful, meriting EU recognition and aid.

Source: The Success of Greek Structural Reforms by Dimitris Papadimoulis – Project Syndicate

Now that the Greek government has delivered on its part of the bailout deal, it is time that its European and international counterparts conclude the first review of the program. This will allow the government to proceed to the second stage: coping with skyrocketing unemployment and putting the economy back on the path to growth. Greece has several sectors that could provide it a comparative advantage within the eurozone, most notably the maritime sector, energy, tourism, agriculture, and social entrepreneurship.

The Greek economy may still be struggling; GDP fell by 0.6% in the last quarter of 2015, according to Eurostat. But predictions that the economy would shrink by as much as 4% last year proved to be unfounded. And because of the government’s reforms and the country’s highly skilled workforce, the European Commission predicts a gradual return to growth by the second half of 2016. It is time that investors acknowledge the progress being made; the wise ones will begin to return to Greece.

Read more at https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/syriza-greek-reforms-success-by-dimitris-papadimoulis-2016-03#KDkWf2S98TTipqrf.99

By Jane Fonda Written for Lenny: My Convoluted Journey to Feminism | Jane Fonda

this is not about replacing one “-archy” with another, it’s about transforming social and cultural norms and institutions so that power, violence, and greed are not the primary operating principles. It’s not about moving from patriarchy to matriarchy, but from patriarchy to democracy. Feminism means real democracy. There’s no road map to get there. It hasn’t happened yet. Women and men of conscience have never had a chance thus far to make our revolution. The journey is both external and internal, political and personal. For me, the personal meant becoming a single woman, no longer silencing my voice, slowly becoming the subject of my own life. My friendships with women grew deeper and more fulfilling. I read books I’d read before, by Carol Gilligan, Gloria Steinem, Robin Morgan, Gerda Lerner, bell hooks, and Jean Baker Miller, among others, but I understood them in a new way. In the process, I discovered that what I’d thought were just my issues were, in fact, shared by other women. I was not alone. The personal became political, and I became an embodied feminist. I had gone from believing that women’s issues were a distraction, mere ancillary problems to be addressed after everything else had been taken care of, to the realization that women are the issue, the core issue. We will fail to solve any problem — poverty, peace, sustainable development, environment, health — unless we look at it through a gender lens and make sure the solution will be good for women. It took me 30 years to get it, but it’s OK to be a late bloomer as long as you don’t miss the flower show.

Source: By Jane Fonda Written for Lenny: My Convoluted Journey to Feminism | Jane Fonda

no veil ,no testimony | nadiaharhash

My point was as simple as it still remains … There is a whole system of degrading women. The sharia law as applied under the name of God, and as a student of law and Islamic philosophy with modest knowledge on Islamic jurisdictions n accordance with Qur’an and pioneer jurists has nothing to do with this applied law of sharia. It is a collection of laws that are a mixture of Turkish, Arabic, and Israeli man enforced law for political gains in overpowering who ever or whatever, and the women seem to be the easiest scapegoats. In a patriarchal structure as such, it is no wonder that the laws are all designed to maintain men power over women, and make sure that a man is always given the just treatment he is entitled to have due his supremacy. After all he is the family “god”. There is something in the system that we women allowed. Whether voluntarily or by force I really don’t know. Changing it is not by condemning an act or two or some. It is by changing it all from the core. And this change can only happen if women are sitting on the same table with men defining and articulating that law. Objecting to a woman’s testimony with a veil or not is not a surprise. Veil is becoming a code dress to societies in the Middle East. A woman can be prostitute and still wearing a veil. Veil is actually becoming a veil to women’s restricted movement. A veiled woman has more access to freedom than that who is not. The controversy and the paradox in describing or comparing veiled with unveiled is also an extreme one. There is no middle way in the comparison. Wearing a veil makes a woman part of the social wanted structure. Not wearing it makes her an infidel. Or as close to one. This should take me to different level of the story … But I will leave it here for now …

Source: no veil ,no testimony | nadiaharhash

Gang members kill 23-year-old radio journalist in El Salvador – IFEX

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns young community radio host Nicolás García’s gruesome murder by members of the Mara Salvatrucha gang on the night of 10 March in El Carrizal, a village in the western department of Ahuachapán. Working as a journalist is very dangerous in El Salvador because of the alarming level of violence.For the past several months, García, 23, had been hosting a programme on El Carrizal-based radio Expressa, voces al aire in which he advised local residents on how to protect themselves from violence and interviewed members of the Civilian National Police (PNC).Local members of the Mara Salvatrucha gang did not like the programme. After many threats, they began suggesting that he join the gang and provide them with information about police movements in El Carrizal in exchange for 100 dollars a month.

Source: Gang members kill 23-year-old radio journalist in El Salvador – IFEX

#FreeIsabel – Isabel Mejia

In as little as two weeks, Isabel Mejia, a mother, survivor of horrific domestic violence, and long-time Los Angeles resident, may be deported to Mexico where she is afraid her ex-husband will kill her. Please, sign this petition demanding that ICE release her from detention and close her deportation case immediately!Isabel is a Los Angeles mother of three U.S. citizen children (3, 5 and 9) and a 13-year-old daughter. LAPD raided a party on November 14, 2015 and arrested Isabel and dozens of others. She was not charged and it appears that most were quickly released; however, Isabel was transferred to ICE after her fingerprint scan showed a decade-old deportation order from when she fled for her and her daughter’s life. Isabel has a single DUI conviction for which she was taking classes as part of a diversion program prior to her detention.

Source: #FreeIsabel

Brussels ‘a disaster city,’ Donald Trump says after attacks – Times of India – Germans who birthed him did not assimilate? Hyenas would disavow Trumpists!

Brussels is “a disaster city” where assimilation has failed, US Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump said Tuesday after a series of apparently coordinated explosions rocked the Belgian capital’s airport and a metro station. At least 26 people were killed in the latest attacks to target Europe, and Trump wasted little time in saying it was more evidence that governments needed to crack down on extremists with any means possible — even using waterboarding — and that immigration policies had failed. He reiterated his belief that the US should close its borders “until we figure out what’s going on.” Anyone who tries to attack the United States will “suffer greatly,” Trump said, in typically blunt tones that have shaped his populist run for the White House, propelling him from outsider to firm favorite for the Republican ticket. “Belgium is no longer Belgium. Belgium is not the Belgium you and I knew from 20 years ago, which was one of the most beautiful and safest cities in the world,” Trump told NBC. “Belgium is a horror show right now. Terrible things are happening. People are leaving. People are afraid. This all happened because, frankly, there’s no assimilation.”

Source: Brussels ‘a disaster city,’ Donald Trump says after attacks – Times of India

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