Peter Hopkins, Gurchathen Sanghera, and Kate Botterill | (The Conversation) | – – Immigration and national identity currently are at the forefront of the public conscience. In France, the burkini ban and in the UK proposals for migration controls following the Brexit vote are dividing communities. The growing tensions mean that many ethnic and religious […]
Archives for October 2016
Would US have more security if it spent on Global Ed instead of on War industries?
By Jeffrey D. Sachs | (Project Syndicate) | – – NEW YORK – The United States needs to shift its spending from war to education, from CIA-backed regime change to a new Global Fund for Education (GFE). With hundreds of millions of children around the world not in school, or in schools with under-qualified teachers, […]
The Unbearable Horror of Donald Trump
By David M. Faris | (Informed Comment) | – – Monday’s debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton was a bizarre, disorienting carnival from the start. It was one of the only debates I’ve ever watched without developing a sense of the winner, not because the candidates hit their partisan talking points, but rather because […]
Russia and Turkey Make up: What implications for Syria, Kurds?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Russian President Vladimir Putin was in Turkey on Monday for direct talks with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, in a bid to further normalize relations between the two countries. Russian-Turkish trade and diplomatic ties were stress late last fall when Turkey shot down a Russian fighter jet […]
Why does Israel have 200K Palestinians in WB Refugee Camps under Siege?
By Fabíola Ortiz | (Inter Press Service) | – – An eight-meter-high “security wall” borders part of the Aida refugee camp, 1.5 km north of the city of Bethlehem. Credit: Fabiola Ortiz/IPS An eight-meter-high “security wall” borders part of the Aida refugee camp, 1.5 km north of the city of Bethlehem. Credit: Fabiola Ortiz/IPS AIDA […]
The Future is Here: Massive floating Wind Turbines off Scotland by 2017
The Economist | (Video Report) “It is not just utility companies racing to respond to the rise of renewable energy. Oil and gas giant Statoil is building on four decades of offshore experience to erect its first floating wind farm. The Disrupters is an original series exploring how major industries – from music and cars […]
Die-Hard Trump Supporters want to *be* Trump
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Back in the 1960s when the James Bond craze hit the US and even President Jack Kennedy revealed that he liked Ian Fleming’s thrillers, I remember reading an interesting essay on the reason for the character’s popularity. After all, James Bond is not in fact very […]
Starving Yemen
By Helen Lackner | ( OpenDemocracy ) | – – Is the forgotten war turning into a forgotten famine? What answers will we give when the next generation ask how we could watch these tragedies and do nothing? Still from the film documentary,’Starving Yemen’2016. BBC Arabic/BBC Our World. All rights reserved.Most of us are glued […]
GOP finally shocked as Trump admits to being serial Groper of white women on Hot Mic
By TeleSur | – – Trump was caught using vulgar terms to refer to women he tried to seduce. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump bragged about groping, aggressively kissing and making sexual advances toward a married woman, a taped conversation obtained by the Washington Post published on Friday reveals. The recording was made in 2005 […]
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