By Shalaw Mohammed | (Niqash.org) | (Kirkuk) | – – People in the northern city of Kirkuk have lived through a lot, including attacks by the Islamic State. But for many, last weekend was the last straw. In the middle of the night of October 16, the people of Kirkuk were glued to their televisions […]
Volcano-driven Climate Change Defeated Egypt’s Ptolemies
By Steven Young | ( The Watchers) | – – Around 245 BCE Ptolemy III, ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom in Egypt, made a decision that still puzzles many historians: After pursuing a successful military campaign against the kingdom’s nemesis, the Seleucid Empire, centered mainly in present-day Syria and Iraq, Ptolemy III suddenly decided to […]
Is racial bias driving Trump’s neglect of Puerto Rico?
By Lauren Lluveras | (The Conversation) | – – The morning after Hurricane Maria blasted through Puerto Rico, I emailed my aunt to ask if she was safe. That was Sept. 21. I heard back from her on Oct. 10. She was fine, she assured me, but “Puerto Rico is destroyed.” After that, my tia […]
Justice Roberts used bad Data to end Voting Rights Act & other shoddy SCOTUS Mistakes
By Ryan Gabrielson | ( ProPublica ) | – – ProPublica review adds fuel to a longstanding worry about the nation’s highest court: The justices can botch the truth, sometimes in cases of great import. In 2007, a group of California Institute of Technology scientists working at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory filed suit against the […]
“Tell me how this Ends”- Gen. Petraeus has decided Forever War Doesn’t
Will we bequeath Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Nigeria, Korea to our Grandchildren?
3 ways Trump’s nuclear strategy misunderstands Iran’s Mood
Iranian public opinion rejects further sanctions and is ready to walk away from deal
France’s Macron slams Trump ‘Bad Policy’ by Mulling Iran Visit, Seeking Trade
TeleSur Macron’s visit to Iran would be the first by a French head of state or government since 1976. Widening transatlantic divisions are coming into focus as traditional U.S. allies are recoiling at U.S. President Donald Trump’s attempts to undermine the nuclear deal with Iran. The divide was underscored Sunday as French President Emmanuel Macron […]
Legal weed: An accidental solution to the opioid crisis?
Colorado experiment yielding evidence
Morocco’s Solar Power Revolution Sparks Jobs, High-Tech Investment
Concentrating Solar becoming engine of development, according to World Bank
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