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Ariana Grande One Love Manchester Benefit: Response to Terror

Ariana Grande One Love Manchester Benefit: Response to Terror

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Ariana Grande One Love Concert | Manchester | (Video Clip) | – – Ariana Grande returned to Manchester with some special guests to remember the victims of the attack which took place after her gig on May 22. Justin Bieber, Katy Perry, Coldplay, Black Eyed Peas, Take That, Robbie Williams, Niall Horan, Little Mix, Pharrell […]

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It isn't just Trump:  The American System is Broken

It isn’t just Trump: The American System is Broken

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By Jeffrey D. Sachs | (Project Syndicate) | – – NEW YORK – US President Donald Trump’s ravings against the 2015 Paris climate agreement are partly a product of his ignorance and narcissism. Yet they represent something more. They are a reflection of the deep corruption of the US political system, which, according to one […]

Donald Trump
US faces risks as Trump misreads the Middle East

US faces risks as Trump misreads the Middle East

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Francis Ghilès | (OpenDemocracy.net) | – – Militarising the region further and taking sides in a recently concocted sectarian conflict will likely end in tears. Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sissi, Saudi King Salman Bin Abdelaziz Al Saud, US First Lady Melania Trump, and US president Donald Trump. Picture by Balkis Press/ABACA/ABACA/PA Images. All rights reserved.The […]

Asia
Apocalypse Soon:  Does Trump Downgrade of Diplomacy in Koreas threaten us All?

Apocalypse Soon: Does Trump Downgrade of Diplomacy in Koreas threaten us All?

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By Rajan Menon | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – Defense Secretary James Mattis remarked recently that a war with North Korea would be “tragic on an unbelievable scale.” No kidding. “Tragic” doesn’t even begin to describe the horrors that would flow from such a conflict. The Korean peninsula, all 85,270 square miles of it, is […]

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The Jeremy Corbyn response to Trump, May and Terror you won't see on Corporate News

The Jeremy Corbyn response to Trump, May and Terror you won’t see on Corporate News

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Jeremy Corbyn | (Video Clip) | – – Jeremy Corbyn | Terrorist Attack in London | criticism of May and Trump

art and photography
Painting of the Day:   Girl w/ Wine Cup, Isfahan, Iran, 1650

Painting of the Day: Girl w/ Wine Cup, Isfahan, Iran, 1650

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British Museum | Persian Watercolor in style of Muhammad Qasim | – – “Girl with a wine cup Style of Muhammad Qasim Safavid Iran, Isfahan, 1640-50 Ink and opaque watercolour on paper By 1650 drawings of young men or women holding wine cups in the countryside had become standard rather than hackneyed fare in Persian […]

Climate Change
No, Republicans... God Won't "Take Care Of" Global Warming

No, Republicans… God Won’t “Take Care Of” Global Warming

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By Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian | (The Young Turks) | – – “Congressional Republicans threatening the survival of the human species are telling fairy tales about heavenly carbon bailouts to help themselves sleep better at night. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian, hosts of The Young Turks, discuss.” The Young Turks: “No, Republicans… God Won’t […]

Climate Change
How bad could Trump's Paris Agreement withdrawal be? A scientist's perspective

How bad could Trump’s Paris Agreement withdrawal be? A scientist’s perspective

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By Robert Kopp | (The Conversation) | – – Even before the Paris Agreement was signed in December 2015, market forces and policy measures were starting to tilt the world toward a lower-carbon future. U.S. carbon dioxide emissions peaked in 2007, and Chinese emissions may have peaked in 2014. Solar energy, wind and energy storage […]

Afghanistan
Could public anger over Kabul Bombing shake Afghan Government?

Could public anger over Kabul Bombing shake Afghan Government?

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By Frud Bezhan. ( RFE/RL) | – – How did a sewage tank truck packed with explosives penetrate a heavily fortified area of the Afghan capital and carry out the deadliest attack in Kabul since the U.S.-led invasion in 2001? That is the question angry Afghans want the government to answer, and provide some explanation […]

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