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Club Dead: EU immigration laws turning Mediterranean into Graveyard- Malta PM
Malta’s prime minister Joseph Muscat said Saturday that the European Union’s inaction on immigration reform is turning the Mediterranean into a graveyard. UPI quotes him […]
Snowden: Federal Spying makes us Less Secure
Supporters of massive National Security Agency domestic and international electronic surveillance of millions of innocent civilians justify it on the grounds that it makes us […]
US Drone strikes Continue in Pakistan despite PM Nawaz Sharif’s UN Protest (Serle)
Jack Serle writes at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism The CIA launched four attacks [on Pakistan in September] – the second most attacks in one […]
Ban Coal: Super Cyclone half the Size of India driven by warming Waters
India should rethink plans to build more coal plants. The warming waters of the Indian ocean have thrown up a super-cyclone half the size of […]
If SCOTUS rules against FEC, Each Politician will represent one Billionaire (Moyers)
Bill Moyers interviews Heather Gerken on McCutcheon vs The Federal Election Commission, which he calls “Citizens United: the Sequel” the blurb: “This week the Supreme […]
It’s Getting Hot in Here: Global Warming Turning Point in only 34 Years (Germanos)
Andrea Germanos writes at Commondreams.org: The "years of climate departure" for various cities across the globe. (Image: University of Hawaii/Abby Frazier)If global warming continues its […]
Whatever Happened to the Somali Pirates?
With the opening of Paul Greengrass’s film “Captain Phillips,” written by Billy Ray and starring Tom Hanks, the phenomenon of piracy in the waters off […]
Sakharov Prize-winner Malala Yousafazai Calls on US Gov’t to Conduct talks with Taliban (Queally)
Malala Yousafzai has won the Sakharov Prize for free speech and human rights. Jon Queally writes at Commondreams.org: ” Malala Yousafzai, the sixteen-year-old girl shot […]
Why “Fracking” should be against the Law (Giesen)
Tom Giesen writes in a guest column for Informed Comment: As our stocks of cheap and easy gas and oil diminish, we seek oil in […]