By Aviva Chomsky | (Tomdispatch.com) | – – During the past academic year, an upsurge of student activism, a movement of millennials, has swept campuses across the country and attracted the attention of the media. From coast to coast, from the Ivy League to state universities to small liberal arts colleges, a wave of student […]
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Archives for 2016
UN Overwhelmed: Climate & Conflict have created 60 mn Refugees, Half of them Children
By Baher Kamal | (Inter Press Service) | – – ROME, May 20 2016 (IPS) – “We cannot keep jumping from crisis to crisis. We have to invest in long-term development that helps people cope with shocks so that they can continue to grow enough food for their communities and not require emergency aid.” With […]
The Hottest Year on Record: 12th month in a row of unprecedented heat
Cenk Uygur | (The Young Turks) | – – “The planet keeps getting warmer. The level of destruction from natural disasters is also climbing. Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, breaks it down.. . “For the 12th month in a row, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has announced record-high global temperatures — marking […]
Palestinians Capture Israeli Extremists Who Attacked Farmers
By IMEMC | – – Palestinian members of local neighborhood watch committee, in Talfit village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, managed to capture two armed fanatic Israeli colonists, who invaded the village and attacked farmers. Ghassan Daghlas, a Palestinian official in charge of Israeli settlements file in the northern parts of […]
Baghdad on Lockdown not from fear of ISIL but of poor Protesters
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Baghdad was a ghost town on Saturday,, as security forces fanned out, blocking key roads into the Green Zone, the area downtown, closed off by blast walls, that houses parliament and foreign embassies. On Friday, over a hundred protesters were wounded and at least 2 died […]
Egyptians “shocked” at Lieberman Appointment, note Barak’s accusation of “fascism” in Tel Aviv
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – What do Israel’s Arab neighbors think about the political earthquake that struck PM Binyamin Netanyahu’s cabinet on Thursday and Friday? Netanyahu invited into his government the far right Yisrael Beitenu ultra-nationalist party and offered the minister of defense position to extremist Avigdor Lieberman. He appears to […]
Al-Qaeda’s Al-Zawahiri, 9/11 Mastermind, Plays Syrian Politics
By Sam Heller | ( RFE/RL ) | – – When the self-proclaimed Islamic State declared the establishment of a global Muslim “caliphate” in 2014, the move accelerated a race for legitimacy within the international jihadist movement. IS’s rival Al-Qaeda — which had long held out a righteous Islamic state as a far-off ideal, not […]
Top 3 sources of Immigration to US every Decade since 1820 (Animated Map)
Metrocosm | (Animated video) | – – “From 1920 to 2013, 79 million people obtained lawful permanent resident status in the United States. This map visualizes all of them based on their prior country of residence. The brightness of a country corresponds to its total migration to the U.S. at the given time. 1 dot […]
Snowden on Torture Report: “When the CIA destroys s.th., it’s never a Mistake”
TeleSur | — After the CIA inspector general admitted it destroyed a 6,700 page report on torture, the famed whistleblower said the CIA does not destroy by “accident.” Edward Snowden commented this week on the CIA inspector general office’s “mistaken” destruction of its only copy of a top secret torture report: ““When the CIA destroys […]
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