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Fiji to Rich Carbon-Spewing Nations: History will Judge you for Sinking Us!
By Jon Queally The interim prime minister of Fiji on Thursday condemned the international community for its continued failure to address the crisis of climate […]
Global Warming is about to Decimate the Building Blocks of Life in the Ocean
By Alex Kirby Researchers warn that marine life could be dramatically affected as climate change threatens to cause severe reduction of plankton – the key […]
Afghanistan Elections: Abdullah refuses to Concede, Protests Erupt charging Fraud
By Frud Bezhan via RFE/RL KABUL — As allegations of fraud in Afghanistan’s runoff election pile up, protest movements have mobilized against what they see […]
Palestinians 66 Yrs Later: An Unsustainable Refugee Crisis
By Pierre Krähenbühl via EurActiv Commissioner General of the United United Nations Relief and Works Agency Pierre Krähenbühl writes on the unsustainability of the Palestine […]
Iraq: Ayatollah Sistani hints that Parliament should dump al-Maliki as Muqtada mobilizes “Peace Brigades”
The chorus for Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki of Iraq to step down grew louder on Friday, as Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani of Najaf had his […]
Flashback: All the Ways the Neocons were Wrong about Iraq
via Bernie Sanders US Senator Dick Cheney “Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction. There is no […]
How US Hawks Created an Arc of Instability in the Middle East
By Tom Engelhardt via Tomdispatch As Iraq was unraveling last week and the possible outlines of the first jihadist state in modern history were coming […]
Is Iraq Actually Falling Apart? What Social Science Surveys Show
By Mansoor Moaddel Several nationally representative surveys carried out in Iraq between 2004 and 2013 provide important facts about Iraqi orientations toward secular politics, basis […]
Pakistan Needs Regional and Global Alliances to Fight the Extremists
By Muqtedar Khan Pakistan on Sunday launched another military operation — Zarb-e-Azb — against the extremists in Waziristan. The name of the operation means sharp […]