“Countries the world over must now urgently follow Ireland’s lead and divest from fossil fuels,” said Gerry Liston at Global Legal Action Network. Ireland’s lower house of parliament has passed a bill across party lines that will require the country to divest all of its shares in fossil fuel companies. All investments in coal, oil, […]
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Archives for 2018
Pakistanis Mourn as Extremists attack Democratic Elections, killing 128
by Maaz KHAN – Mastung (Pakistan) (AFP) – Pakistan was in shock Saturday after a suicide blast killed 128 people, shaking confidence in security just as the dramatic arrest of ex-prime minister Nawaz Sharif ratcheted political tensions higher ahead of nationwide polls. Sharif’s highly-anticipated return from London and subsequent arrest for corruption was overshadowed as […]
An Offer they Can’t Refuse: Trump’s “Mob Boss Style” on Display in London
Hundreds of thousands of Britons took to the streets to protest Trump’s visit on Friday, as he was ridiculed with a baby Trump blimp. The vast majority of Britons deeply dislike the American president, our homegrown weird hybrid of Mussolini and the scheming trickster Newman from Seinfeld. Trump’s visit was marked by a peculiarly vicious […]
With 5 Powers fighting in Syria, who will come out on top? Netanyahu, Putin, or Trump?
San Francisco (48 Hills) – Russian bombs rained down on towns of southern Syria as an estimated 320,000 civilians fled for their lives. Over the past several weeks tens of thousands walked to the Jordanian and Israeli borders hoping to escape the onslaught. Rula Amin, a spokesperson for the UN refugee agency UNHCR, based in […]
Mueller: 12 Russian Agents indicted for Hacking Dems on Day Trump asked them to
Washington (AFP) – Twelve Russian military intelligence officers were indicted by a US grand jury on Friday — just three days before President Donald Trump’s meeting with Russia’s Vladimir Putin — for interfering in the 2016 presidential election. The charges were drawn up by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, the former FBI director who is looking […]
United Arab Emirates Committing War Crimes in its Yemen Prisons: Amnesty
Dubai (AFP) – Human rights violations in a string of Yemeni prisons run by the United Arab Emirates could amount to war crimes, Amnesty International said Thursday in a report promptly rejected by the UAE. It called for investigations by the UAE and allies including the United States into a network of unofficial prisons across […]
Could Trump’s War on Black NFL Players awaken a Sleeping Giant?
By Robert Lipsyte | – New York (Tomdispatch.com) – Snatching immigrant babies may have scored some points for President Trump with his base, but it was never going to light up the scoreboard like tackling black jocks. That one really played to the grandstands. The complicated combination of adoration and resentment so many white males […]
Syrian Army Raises Flag in Daraa, Cradle of Failed Revolution
With Tony Gamal-Gabriel in Beirut Daraa (Syria) (AFP) – Syria’s army entered rebel-held parts of Daraa city on Thursday, state media said, raising the national flag in the cradle of the uprising that sparked the country’s seven-year war. After securing Damascus in May, President Bashar al-Assad is determined to oust rebels from a key southern […]
Trump Threatens Iran with “Escalation;” Could it Spin out of Control?
Both Trump and his hyperactive but ineffectual secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, ratcheted up their rhetoric on Iran on Thursday. In fact, Pompeo has been more or less threatening acts of war for the past week. Trump said at a NATO news conference, “I would say there might be an escalation between us and the […]








