Euronews | (Video Report) | – – “A solar powered plane has successfully completed a record-breaking five-day nonstop solo flight across the Pacific Ocean. The Solar Impulse is the first aircraft to fly day and night without any fuel from Japan to Hawaii Its Swiss pilot Andre Borschberg is attempting to circumnavigate the globe with […]
Archives for July 2015
Iraq’s Displaced People are Selling Body Parts For Food
Niqash.org | Sulaymaniyah | – – “Authorities in Iraqi Kurdistan suspect that displaced people are selling their kidneys to feed their families. Problem is, they don’t know how to stop it because there’s nothing illegal about donating a kidney.” The flood of internally displaced people into the semi-autonomous northern region of Iraqi Kurdistan is not […]
Funding For Desperate Palestinian Refugees Under Threat
By Mel Frykberg | (Inter Press Service) | – – UNRWA spokesman Chris Gunness, who says that unless someone steps in to alleviate the financial crisis facing the U.N. agency, “ it is innocent refugees who will again suffer”. Credit: Mel Frykberg/IPS JERUSALEM, Jul 3 2015 (IPS) – The U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) […]
Egypt’s Draconian new anti-Terrorism Law threatens freedom of speech, Democracy
Euronews | (Video Report) | – – “Egypt launched airstrikes on Islamist militant targets in the Sinai peninsula killing 23 fighters, the offensive comes a day after deadly clashes in the region.” On Wednesday, the cabinet approved a new anti-terrorism law which it claims will act as a deterrent but political expert Bashir Abdl Alfatah […]
It’s the Economy, Stupid!: Tunisia’s fight against Terrorism requires a jobs program for its Youth
By Alexander Martin | (The Conversation) | – – To anyone who has followed Tunisia’s journey since it became a democracy, the horrific events in Sousse were shocking, but not surprising. This is a country still struggling to keep itself safe and address its internal destabilising forces. The 100 days since the Bardo museum attacks […]
Donald Trump, Dumpee: Forgetting to use the GOP racial dog-whistle is an Expensive Mistake
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Donald Trump is seeing short-term gains from the Tea Party wing of the Republican Party, but his recent behavior will have a fatal impact on his presidential ambitious. Republican candidates who wanted to play to the “angry white men” were in the past slightly more subtle. […]
The Ghost of Soviet Collapse haunts the West: Military Hegemony isn’t what it Used to Be
By Tom Engelhardt | (Tomdispatch.com) | – – The rise and fall of great powers and their imperial domains has been a central fact of history for centuries. It’s been a sensible, repeatedly validated framework for thinking about the fate of the planet. So it’s hardly surprising, when faced with a country once regularly labeled […]
50 Egyptian Soldiers, others, Killed in Daesh Sinai Rebellion
Aljazeera International | Video Report | – – “At least 35 people killed as ISIL group attacks police posts in Sheikh Zuweid and El-Arish.Al Jazeera’s Omar Saleh reports.” At the same time, Egyptian troops surrounded and killed 9 Muslim Brothers in a Cairo neighborhood, including a former member of parliament. Deadly Attacks hit Egypt’s Sinai […]
Bernie Sanders’ 10,000-person crowd in Madison biggest of any Candidate so Far
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Democratic Party’s left wing is fed up and isn’t going to take it any more. Americans in opinion polling overwhelmingly favor the positions of Bernie Sanders on most political and social issues. But gerrymandering, big money in politics, and voter suppression have produced presidents who […]
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