Severe droughts made more likely by global warming worsened conflict in Arab Spring countries, forcing people to flee
Archives for January 2019
US Uses Migrant Children as ‘Bait’ to Catch Sponsors: Lawsuit
Some 10,000 migrant children being held in Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) shelters are being denied due process rights as asylum seekers, the lawsuit argues. “We have over 10,000 children in custody right now because this administration is using them as bait. This deplorable, deliberate policy means that these children are languishing in detention for […]
Not with a Bang but a Whimper: Last Village of ISIL “Caliphate” falls to Syrian Kurds
Beirut (AFP) – Kurdish-led fighters overran the last village held by the Islamic State group in Syria on Wednesday, confining its once vast cross-border “caliphate” to two small hamlets, a war monitor said. It is the culmination of a broad offensive launched by the Syrian Democratic Forces last September with US-led coalition support in which […]
Trump’s anti-Iran Warsaw Conference Collapsing, as Russia says Iran should have been Invited
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A couple of weeks ago, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced a conference on security in the Middle East for February 13-14. Although the theme seemed general, the conclave was clearly intended by Pompeo, Saudi Arabia, and Israel to direct hate against Iran. Poland issued 70 invitations to the countries […]
With World on Precipice of Climate Catastrophe, US CO2 Emissions Skyrocketed in 2018
By Abrahm Lustgarten | – ( ProPublica) – A report by a private research company found that U.S. emissions, which amount to one-sixth of the planet’s, didn’t fall in 2018 but instead skyrocketed. The 3.4 percent jump for 2018, projected by the firm, would be second-largest surge in greenhouse gas emissions from the U.S. since […]
Behold the Child: US is Complicit in Thousands of Minor Deaths in Yemen & other Killing Fields
Children around the world are suffering, increasingly unsafe, and preyed upon in ever larger numbers
Health, Poverty, Conflict in Charts: Is the World Better off Today than ever before in History?
By Julius Probst | – Swedish academic Hans Rosling has identified a worrying trend: not only do many people across advanced economies have no idea that the world is becoming a much better place, but they actually even think the opposite. This is no wonder, when the news focuses on reporting catastrophes, terrorist attacks, wars […]
Copenhagen to be 1st Carbon Neutral City by 2025 and other Wind Energy Good News Stories
Some ten percent of greater Copenhagen’s households will be powered by wind turbines set up on 9 artificial islands off its coast
The West Has Islam Dangerously Wrong
Western accounts have discounted this emphasis that the Qur’an clearly has on peace-building, peace-making, striving against violent conflict.
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