By Ellen Wiles< | (The Conversation) | - - It was a bright autumn morning, and I had just dropped off my two children at nursery and was scrolling through Twitter, when I spotted a video of another mother’s two children. The youngest was a one-year-old boy, the same age as my own youngest; the […]
How Trump’s Foreign Policy Mood Swings made US a Rogue State
By John Feffer | (Foreign Policy in Focus) | – – From his feud with Bob Corker to his plans to renege on the Iran deal, Trump’s mood swings mean a dangerous new era of foreign policy. Every few years — sometimes four, sometimes eight — America’s political mood swings from one pole to another. […]
SNL: Kelly Anne Conway as “It” devours Anderson Cooper
Horrific satire on Trump’s chief obfuscator
Why do the Super-Rich hate the Poor & Workers so Much?
As Trump deliberately crashes Obamacare and deprives millions of health insurance
France plans to double Solar & Wind to 40% of Electricity by 2030
Can depending on consumer-generated panels do the trick?
Syrian Army Seizes De Facto ISIL Capital
ISIL or ISIS facing final days as holder of territories as Damascus reclaims al Mayadeen
More civilian Airstrike Deaths under Trump than in 8 years of Obama
More civilian deaths under first 7 months of Trump than in entire Obama Administration
Alarmed Kurdistan forces Mobilized at Kirkuk as Iraqi troops said to Mass on Border
Kurds say Shiite militias heading for Kirkuk
Could Kurdish Secession bid derail Iraq’s Democracy?
Mustafa Habib | (Baghdad) | (Niqash.org) | – – In Baghdad, the Kurdish referendum has dominated all other official proceedings. Lack of progress on electoral laws means federal elections could be postponed – again. The controversial Iraqi Kurdish referendum on independence has also had a divisive impact on politics in Baghdad. For one thing it […]