By Christophe Maroun | ( GlobalVoices.org) | – – As the world's nations met in Bonn, Germany for the 23rd annual conference of the parties (COP23) under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), 2017 was set to be one of the hottest years on record. COP 23 Logo. Source: COP 23 Website. Researchers […]
MbS a la Trump: “Making Saudi Arabia Great Again”!
By Reese Erlich | ( 48hills.org) | – – I stood in front of a mosque in the city of Qatif, Saudi Arabia, interviewing people for a story. Suddenly, two city police cars pulled up. Several minutes later plain clothes officers from the secret police began questioning me. I had entered the country with a […]
Trump’s revival of ‘Tactical Nuclear Weapons’ Idiocy endangers World
By Michael T. Klare | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – Maybe you thought America’s nuclear arsenal, with its thousands of city-busting, potentially civilization-destroying thermonuclear warheads, was plenty big enough to deter any imaginable adversary from attacking the U.S. with nukes of their own. Well, it turns out you were wrong. The Pentagon has been fretting […]
Republicans Admit Their Tax Plan Is All About Rich Donors
By Peter Certo | (Otherwords.org) | – – It’s unpopular. It’s expensive. But the donors want it. Sometimes I have to remind myself that people in “real America” with “real jobs” don’t while away their mortal hours reading about politics. But God help me, if you’ve suffered through any coverage of the Republican tax plan, […]
Militant Buddhism is on the march in South-East Asia; Why Now?
By Peter Lehr | (The Conversation) | – – Even ten years on, the first mental image that comes to mind with regard to Theravāda Buddhism is that of Myanmar’s Saffron Revolution of August-September 2007: thousands of Buddhist monks peacefully demonstrating in the streets of Yangon, Mandalay, Pakokku, Sittwe and other towns against the ruling […]
Is Saudi King Salman about to be pushed aside by Son?
TeleSur | – – Speculation has mounted that the King of Saudi Arabia, Salman bin Abdulaziz, will step down and pass the throne to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman next week. The United Kingdom’s Daily Mail quoted a source “close to the royal family” by saying that the 81-year-old King Salman plans to abdicate and […]
Despite Trump Pledge: Keystone Pipeline Spills 210,000 Gallons of Oil in Dakota
TeleSur | – – Environmental activist group Greenpeace said the leak demonstrated that approval should not be given for another section of the 2,600-mile pipeline planned for Nebraska. At least 210,000 gallons of oil have leaked from the Keystone Pipeline in South Dakota in the United States, just days before a crucial decision due on […]
Our heat trapping gas Emissions hit Record High in Planetary Threat
The Conversation: Pep Canadell, CSIRO; Corinne Le Quéré, University of East Anglia; Glen Peters, Center for International Climate and Environment Research – Oslo; Robbie Andrew, Center for International Climate and Environment Research – Oslo; Rob Jackson, Stanford University, and Vanessa Haverd, CSIRO Global greenhouse emissions from fossil fuels and industry are on track to grow […]
Iraq defeated ISIL, but can it defeat Extremism?
By Mustafa Habib | (Baghdad) | (Niqash.org) | – – The military campaign against the Islamic State is almost over. But now, locals and politicians alike say, the Iraqi government must work to ensure they cannot return to recruit more followers. Even as Iraq’s pro-government forces close in on Rawa, one of the very last […]
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