By Lucy Cadena | (Inter Press Service) | – LONDON (IPS) – One of the promises made by the leaders of the world’s seven richest nations when they met at Schloss Elmau in Germany earlier this week was an energy transition over the next decades, aiming to gradually phase out fossil fuel emissions this century […]
Archives for June 2015
Tens of thousands participate in Israel’s annual gay pride Parade
AFP | (Video Report) | – – “Tens of thousands of people turned out on Friday for Israel’s annual Gay Pride parade, dancing in the streets of Tel Aviv and waving rainbow-coloured flags.” AFP: “Tens of thousands participate in Israel’s annual gay pride”
Al-Qaeda in Syria rubs out 23 members of Druze Religious Minority, Persecutes Others
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The al-Qaeda-linked Support Front has murdered 23 men from a single Druze clan in Qalb Lawzah, Idlib Province, Syria. Druze villagers fled in large numbers to surrounding Sunni hamlets seeking refuge from al-Qaeda. There are some 18 Druze villages in the north of Idlib Province. The […]
Pharrell Williams to G7: Green Energy is a Jobs Issue for unemployed Youth
Pharrell Williams | (The Guardian Video) | – – “Pharrell WIlliams, the Grammy award-winning artist makes an impassioned plea for green jobs to be put at the top of the agenda at the Paris COP 21 summit, saying that there is a unique opportunity to create a green economy.” The Guardian: “Pharrell Williams: climate change […]
Has US started Arming Iraq’s Shiite Militias against ISIL/ Daesh?
Mustafa Habib | Baghdad | (Niqash.org) The hostility between the US and Iraq’s Shiite militias seems to have slowed. One leading militia member even went to the US. Is this the beginning of a new, happier relationship and closer battle field cooperation? Last week Captain Amir al-Saadi, whose unit is based in the Habbaniyah camp […]
Expelled for Life: A Palestinian Family’s Struggle to Stay on Their Land
By Jen Marlowe | (Tomdispatch.com) Nasser Nawaj’ah held Laith’s hand as, beside me, they walked down the dirt and pebble path of Old Susya. Nasser is 33 years old, his son six. Nasser’s jaw was set and every few moments he glanced over his shoulder to see if anyone was approaching. Until Laith piped up […]
Since 1967: 95,000 Palestinian Children Incarcerated by Israel
By IMEMC News | – – A human rights group submitted, on Wednesday, a report to UN about Israeli torture and mistreatment of Palestinian children. Military Court Watch (MCW) lodged the submission with the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, annexing over 300 pages of evidence relating […]
Has ISIL/ Daesh killed 50,000 in one Year? Iraq’s Horrors by the Numbers
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Human Rights Commission of Iraq, a body attached to the Iraqi parliament, issued statistics on Wednesday for the one-year impact of Daesh (ISIL, ISIS) on that country. Some of the numbers have to be taken with a grain of salt, but others are likely about […]
A Year after the Fall of Mosul, Yazidi Kurdish Survivors of ISIL Massacres Struggle On
VICE News | (Video Report) | – – “A year after the Islamic State’s lightning conquest of Iraq’s second-largest city of Mosul, the poorly-trained and equipped Kurdish peshmerga forces are the international coalition’s only reliable boots on the ground in northern Iraq. The Pentagon’s hopes of recapturing the city by spring 2015 have been dashed […]
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