Breaking News | (Video, Twitter report) | – – Cyclone Winston: Incredible conditions in Savusavu, Fiji | 20 02 2016 Winston now strongest tropical cyclone on record in Southern Hemi. Worst case scenario in Fiji. Expect devastation pic.twitter.com/fdnqgDuHtZ — Jon Passantino (@passantino) February 20, 2016 Nation wide curfew took effect at 6pm today. It is […]
Koch Brothers Declare War On Electric Cars
Cenk Uygur, John Iadarola, Ana Kasparian & Ben Mankiewicz | (The Young Turks Video) | – – “This is the election where we’re finally focusing on the corrosive affect of money in politics, we now have one more issue that we can add to that list and once again it involves the Koch brothers. A […]
Iran: Poet of Gender Discrimination flees Lashes, 11.5 Year Sentence
By Golnaz Esfandiari | ( RFE/RL ) | – – To get her first book of poetry past the Iranian censor, Fatemeh Ekhtesari did what other Iranian writers often have to do: She used dots for words and sentences she thought would not get past the authorities. But Ekhtesari wasn't prepared for her voice to […]
How the FBI is endangering everyone’s Security to get at one iPhone
By Joseph Bonneau | ( Electronic Frontier Foundation) | – – The legal dispute between Apple and the FBI might prove pivotal in the long-running battle to protect users’ privacy and right to use uncompromised encryption. The case has captured the public imagination. Of course, EFF supports Apple’s efforts to protect its users. The case […]
France: Turkish-Russian ‘War’ Possible over Syria
TeleSur | – – The French president said Russia and Turkey could engage in war over Turkish involvement in Syria as Russia called for an urgent U.N. Security Council. There is risk of a Turkish-Russian war as a result of Ankara’s involvement in Syria, French President Francois Hollande warned Friday, as Russia called for a […]
No, it isn’t all one Thing: The Variety of Religious Experience in Islam
By Aaron W. Hughes | (The Conversation) | – – The rise of Islamic State has led to much speculation about the group’s origins: how do we account for forces and events that paved the way for the emergence of the jihadist group? In the fourth article of our series on the historical roots of […]
Civility? Professor Proposes Israel “flatten” a City of 1 million
By Belén Fernández | ( TeleSur ) | – – No, Israel Should Not Flatten Beirut: A debate over whether Israel should commit war crimes and wipe out a city of at least 1 million people is somehow acceptable. This week, the prominent Israeli newspaper Haaretz ran an opinion piece by Amitai Etzioni, titled “Should […]
Exxon-Mobil’s past Crimes against the Earth are nothing Compared to its Present Ones
By Bill McKibben | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – Here’s the story so far. We have the chief legal representatives of the eighth and 16th largest economies on Earth (California and New York) probing the biggest fossil fuel company on Earth (ExxonMobil), while both Democratic presidential candidates are demanding that the federal Department of […]
UN: Over 400 Palestinians displaced by Israel in 6 weeks
Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Over 400 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank have been displaced due to Israeli demolitions during the first six weeks of this year, a senior UN official said Wednesday. Coordinator for Humanitarian and UN Development Activities for the occupied Palestinian territory Robert Piper in a statement […]