Asia

Feng Hao | (ChinaDialogue) | – – Lives in northern China are shorter than in the south because of air pollution from heating, reports Feng Hao In Beijing, the switch from coal to gas heating has reduced levels of tiny particles (PM2.5 and PM10) in November by 55% and 46% on last year (Image: Nick McIntosh) Each year, the winter chill creates […]

Islamophobia

Ignoring Rohingya Ethnic Cleansing is Creating another Palestine

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Middle East Monitor | – – The international community must act swiftly on the Rohingya crisis or the world will create another Palestine. That was the stark warning issued by a delegation from the Middle East in a meeting with the Speaker of the Bangladesh Parliament on Tuesday. The members of the delegation included representatives […]

Afghanistan

How Hawks and ambitious Generals pioneered our generational Warfare

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By Danny Sjursen | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – I remember the day President Obama let me down. It was December 1, 2009, and as soon as the young president took the podium at West Point and — calm and cool as ever — announced a new troop surge in Afghanistan, I knew. There wasn’t […]

Buddhism

Over 700 Rohingya Children Killed by Myanmar Military

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TeleSur | – – An estimate from Doctors Without Borders shows that at least 6,700 refugees have been killed during the first month of militarized persecution. At least 730 Rohingya children under the age of five have been mercilessly slaughtered by Myanmar police forces in an almost six-month crusade against the Muslim community, Doctors Without […]

Green Energy

“Solar+Batteries” = the Cheapest Energy, as S. Korea powers past Coal

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By Frank Rijsberman | (Inter Press Service) | – – SEOUL, Dec 13 2017 (IPS) – Renewable energy became the cheapest form of electricity in 58 emerging economies last year. This year, the 11th Lazard’s Levelized Cost of Energy Analysis (LCOE 11.0) showed that solar and wind energy generation costs (at $46 to $53 per […]

Afghanistan

The Unlikely Industry Empowering Women in Afghanistan

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By Ruchi Kumar | (Yes! Magazine) | = = In this deeply conservative society, these women are busting stereotypes every day. The typical depiction of an Afghan woman looks like this: Timid and fearful, she is a victim of her extremely conservative and regressive society, unable to move around or do much without a man. […]

China

Leaving US in Dust, China starts $150 Million Floating Solar Plant Project

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By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Three Gorges Group project commenced in July of this year and is expected to be completed and fully streamlined by May 2018. On Sunday, Xinhua reported that state-run China’s Three Gorges Group is building the world’s largest floating solar power plant. The renewable energy project, […]

Islamophobia

Ethnically Cleansed Burmese Rohingya reach 600,000 in Bangladesh Camps

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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 […]

Afghanistan

All Trump’s Mideast Wars: 26,000 troops overseas

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By Paul Rogers | ( OpenDemocracy.net | From Washington to Cairo, military aggression and “keeping the lid on” are proving deadly. And they will never work. Nov. 25, 2017: al Rawda mosque where a terrorist attack took place in Bir al-Abed of North Sinai, Egypt. The death toll in the terrorist attack here on Friday […]