National Geographic | – – Dec. 7, 2017 – This is what climate change looks like. This starving polar bear was spotted by National geographic photographer Paul Nicklen while on an expedition in the Baffin Islands. As temperatures rise, and sea ice melts, polar bears lose access to the main staple of their diet—seals. Starving, […]
Archives for December 2017
Trump’s Gift to Hizbullah weakens Saudi Hand in Beirut
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Hassan Nasrullah, the secretary general of Lebanon’s Hizbullah, called for a new Palestinian uprising or intifada in the wake of Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. He said Trump had thereby issued “A second Balfour Declaration.” (The first was in 1917 when the British cabinet […]
Jared Kushner: “Peace Envoy” & Funder of Illegal Israeli Squatters in Palestine
By Justin Elliott | ( ProPublica) | – – While Jared Kushner is working on a peace deal between the Israelis and the Palestinians, the Kushner Companies Charitable Foundation is funding a controversial West Bank settlement. As Jared Kushner leads the U.S. government’s effort to develop an Israeli-Palestinian peace plan, the Kushner Companies Charitable Foundation […]
1% plans Blade Runner Walls against 250 mn Climate Refugees
By Todd Miller | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – When I first talked to the three Honduran men in the train yard in the southern Mexican town of Tenosique, I had no idea that they were climate-change refugees. We were 20 miles from the border with Guatemala at a rail yard where Central American refugees […]
Over 50 injured in Trump-caused in clashes across Palestinian territory
Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The number of injured Palestinians continues to climb on Thursday as clashes with Israeli forces continue to escalate across the occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza Strip, in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s announcement recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Palestinian and world […]
A Bitter Pill for Far Right: Europe’s Muslim Immigrants create Jobs, boost Economy
Maha Akeel | (Euractiv.com) | – – Immigration has been shown to boost Europe’s economies and should be encouraged as indigenous populations get older. At a time of challenge, Europe still has what some might think is a surprising ace up its sleeve – immigration, writes Maha Akeel. Maha Akeel is the director of the […]
Ethnically Cleansed Burmese Rohingya reach 600,000 in Bangladesh Camps
By Naimul Haq | (Inter Press Service) | – – IPS Correspondent Naimul Haq interviews WILLIAM LACY SWING, Director General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) DHAKA, Bangladesh, Dec 5 2017 (IPS) – In less than four months, over 600,000 Rohingya refugees have fled brutal persecution in Myanmar to seek safety across the border […]
Climate Denier Rupert Murdoch’s Estate Burned in LA December Wildfires
The Watchers | – – 1. 1. Rupert's network denies global warming.2. Global warming burns down his home.3. The end.#LAfire https://t.co/FYbm19TY9z — jp (@jpdoctor) December 6, 2017 2. Wochit News: “Rupert Murdoch’s California Home Threatened by Wildfires” ——– 3. The Watchers | – – California Gov. Jerry Brown has declared a state of emergency in […]
How Trump’s Jerusalem Move Just Helped Iran Win the Mideast
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Some sections of the crazy quilt that makes up the Trump administration want to push Iran back out of the Arab world and weaken it, in support of Israel and Saudi Arabia. Those actors have just been handed a big setback by Trump’s slurred and crazed […]
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