ITN | – (On Demand News) “Costa Rica manages to achieve a clean energy milestone by using only renewable energy for the first 75 days of the year – a record for any country. Report by Claire Lomas.” ODN: “Costa Rica goes 75 days powering itself using only renewable energy ”
Would a US-Iran Deal end US Military Interventions in ME?
RT | – “Nuclear talks have resumed in Switzerland with the US and Iran struggling to clinch a crucial deal ahead of the March deadline. The western nations want Iran to halt its nuclear programme in exchange for lifting sanctions. Former State Department official and Middle East expert Professor Hillary Mann Leverett joins RT to […]
Pro-Palestinian ad campaign takes over walls of US cities
By Alex Shams | BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Commuters in cities across the United States were surprised this month to find their daily trips to work adorned with posters and banners calling on their government to end military support to Israel. The posters were rolled out in seven cities for the entire month of March, and […]
Traitor Senators used Israeli Spies against their own Country
By Cenk Uygur and John Iadaola | (The Young Turks) | – “Cenk Uygur (http://www.twitter.com/cenkuygur) and John Iadaola (https://twitter.com/jiadarola) host of The Young Turks discuss a recent report on Israeli spying activities used to aide traitor senators against Iran/U.S. nuclear talks. Israel intelligence was funneled to Republican Congresspeople in order to ruin support for Iran/U.S. […]
As Yemen crumbles, civilians brace for the worst
By Almigdad Mojalli | – SANA’A (IRIN) – Abdu Hasan Dabwan is not willing to let it happen again. Twice before, the 54 year-old says, he waited too long, refusing to flee in the hope that the tensions in his home country would not tip over into chaos. Twice he was wrong. The first time […]
Netanyahu’s Victory did us the favor of ending the Charade
By Yigal Bronner | (Informed Comment) – (Jerusalem) | The results of the Israeli elections are good for everybody. Good, because any remaining fog has cleared, and we now have a perfect view of where the country is heading. The elections were won on two straightforward and simple principles. First, as Netanyahu said very clearly, […]
Jim Crow in the Holy Land
By Phyllis Bennis | (Foreign Policy in Focus) – The last days of the campaign sounded an awful lot like the Jim Crow South, when African Americans had officially won the right to vote but still faced massive discrimination. On election morning, a powerful white official running for re-election urged his followers to get out […]
Climate Change: Can the Insurance Industry be saved from Bankruptcy?
Link TV | – “The reinsurance industry insures insurance companies to help reduce risk associated with underwritten policies. Insurance rates have risen in areas with extreme weather events. Frank Nutter, President of Reinsurance Association of America, says climate change is a big factor for reinsurance and insurance companies. “The consequences of climate change are quite […]
Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories ‘must end’ – White House chief of staff
RT | – US officials continue to maintain that American policy towards Israel will undergo changes in the wake of pre-election comments made by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in which he stated that no Palestinian state would be established on his watch. Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories has lasted for nearly five decades and “must […]