By Joshua M. Pearce | The Conversation | – – As the U.S. military increases its use of drones in surveillance and combat overseas, the danger posed by a threat back at home grows. Many drone flights are piloted by soldiers located in the U.S., even when the drones are flying over Yemen or Iraq […]
Archives for September 2017
Book-Burning, Trump’s Torchbearers & Reading Donald Duck
By Ariel Dorfman | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – The organizers of the white supremacist gathering in Charlottesville last month knew just what they were doing when they decided to carry torches on their nocturnal march to protest the dethroning of a statue of Robert E. Lee. That brandishing of fire in the night was […]
Rice Vindicated: She did Unmask Trump, Bannon– but they were meeting UAE
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The United Arab Emirates crown prince, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan slipped into the United States on December 15 for a secret meeting with Trump, Michael Flynn, Jared Kushner and Steve Bannon. It is unusual for high government officials to visit without letting the White House […]
AT&T and Verizon Need to Hang Up On Fossil Fuels
By Todd Larsen | Otherwords.org | – – One text at a time, America’s largest telecommunications companies are fueling climate change. Smartphones are a huge part of our lives. We use them constantly for texts, social media, calls, directions, and finding information online. Even when we’re sleeping, they’re still active, receiving data all night. But […]
Burma Muslims: Dear Peace Nobelist Kyi, It’s too Late
By Farhana Haque Rahman, Director General, Inter Press Service | (IPS) | – – Rohingya refugees trudge through the rain and mud as they arrive at Kutupalong camp in Bangladesh after days on foot. Credit: UNHCR/Vivian Tan DHAKA, Sep 13 2017 (IPS) – Dear Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, We learned today that you […]
UN to name Companies linked to W. Bank Settlements
Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The United Nations Human Rights Council reportedly plans to go ahead with the publication of a list of companies operating in illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory and the Golan Heights, in spite of immense diplomatic pressure from the United States and Israel. According […]
Saudi Arabia wants to improve Image; Here’s How
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Saudi Arabia is alleged to be hiring a PR firm to improve its tattered image in the West . As usual, such a campaign confuses substance with fluff and the money will be wasted. I am sympathetic to Saudi feelings that they get an unfair rap. […]
Chinese Americans came at Same Time as Bannon’s Irish
AJ+ | (Video Report) “There are now more than 4 million Chinese people living in the United States. Surprisingly, most of these immigrants came in the last few decades, starting in the ’60s. Immigration laws, wars and social unrest were big factors in determining who got to leave China and when they ended up in […]
Antarctica Ice Melt will trigger Abrupt Global Heating
By Chris Turney, Jonathan Palmer, Peter Kershaw, Steven Phipps, and Zoë Thomas | (The Conversation) | – – Melting of Antarctica’s ice can trigger rapid warming on the other side of the planet, according to our new research which details how just such an abrupt climate event happened 30,000 years ago, in which the North […]
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