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NATO Members Increase Defense Spending
March 18, 2019
Politico reports that, amid ongoing pressure by the Trump Administration on fellow NATO members to hit the treaty alliance’s two percent target for defense spending, such spending as a proportion of GDP by the EU members of NATO hit a five-year high in 2018.
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Columnist Seeks “Green Marshall Plan” to Address Global Warming
March 18, 2019
Bloomberg columnist Mihir Sharma warns that the massive social, economic, and environmental changes needed to implement the proposed Green New Deal in the US would not be enough to stem climate change, as the US government must redistribute American resources to other countries to fully realize the global “sustainability” agenda.
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Columnist Calls for Global Curtailment of Property Rights
March 18, 2019
George Monbiot of The Guardian, lamenting the connection between labor and private property that is at the heart of the capitalist system and the current paradigm of global property rights, argues that the Universal Declaration on Human Rights should be amended to limit property rights for the benefit of future generations.
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UN Guidelines Demand Rights-Focused Drug Control
March 18, 2019
The UN Development Programme, in partnership with governments and nongovernmental organizations, has launched a set of International Guidelines on Human Rights and Drug Policy, seeking to persuade states to place “human dignity and sustainable development at the heart of their drug control policy.”
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Observer Criticizes Lack of UN Remedy for Refugee Poisoning
March 14, 2019
Highlighting a pattern of UN inertia preventing or delaying remedies for alleged harm caused by peacekeeping operations, the UN Special Rapporteur on hazardous substances and wastes Baskut Tuncak has criticized the international organization for failing to compensate ethnic Roma victims for illness caused by polluted water in UN-built refugee camps in Kosovo.
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