TeleSur | – – With the April 16 referendum having expanded Erdogan’s powers, the AKP leader continues to lead a mass crackdown against his citizens. While a hotly contested referendum earlier this month expanded Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan’s authoritarian powers — it appears the Justice and Development (AKP) party leader is wasting no time exercising […]
20 Million People Could ‘Starve to Death’ in Next Six Months
By Baher Kamal | (Inter Press Service) | – – ROME (IPS) – Urgent action is needed to save the lives of people facing famine in North Eastern Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen, the UN leading food and agriculture agency’s chief on April 28 warned. “If nothing is done, some 20 million people could […]
GOP Politician: ‘ISIS Has Won’ After Confederate Monument Removed
Cenk Uygur | (The Young Turks) | Video News Clip | – – “Hey Confederates: your side lost. Yankees kicked your traitor slaver asses. Deal with it. Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, breaks it down. “Corey Stewart, the former chairman of President Donald Trump’s Virginia campaign and a current candidate for Virginia governor, […]
Climate Change Is Melting Antarctica From the Inside Out: Study
TeleSur | – – Two recent studies published in the journal Nature detail Antarctica’s internal melting while explaining its consequences. Scientist have discovered that Antarctica, like Greenland, is melting from the inside out because of climate change. The drainage of huge quantities of water threatens to exacerbate rising sea levels, which could result in the […]
Trump has it Backwards: It is Dirty Coal that’s Killing Green Jobs
By Basav Sen | (Otherwords.org) | – – Wind and solar could create many, many more jobs than coal — especially if the government stops propping it up. When Donald Trump announced he was rolling back the Obama administration’s signature climate rules this spring, he invited coal miners to share the limelight with him. He […]
Obama Mic Drop: Obamacare more Popular than Trump
Wochit News | (Video Clip) | – – “Former President Barack Obama hailed the political resilience of his signature health care law at a private event Thursday, pointing out that Obamacare is now more popular than his successor trying to repeal it: President Donald Trump. As Republicans in Washington sputtered again this week in their […]
Tasmanian Devil: Donald Trump’s 100 days of u-turns, bombs and cake
By Todd Landman | (The Conversation) | – – The hundredth day of an American president’s term traditionally marks the end of the honeymoon period – a time to take stock of early achievements, launch new legislation, and set a new direction. But the score card for Donald Trump’s first 100 days doesn’t read well, […]
Russia’s Neo-Feudal Capitalism
Anders Åslund. | (Project Syndicate) | – – WASHINGTON, DC – Vladimir Putin’s Russia is looking more and more like the sclerotic and stagnant Soviet Union of the Leonid Brezhnev era. But in one area, Putin’s regime remains an innovator: corruption. Indeed, in this, the 18th year of Putin’s rule, a new form of crony […]
Rightwing False Flag: German Officer Posed as Syrian Refugee, Planned Attack
TeleSur | – – The man knew no Arabic and is of German heritage, but successfully posed as a Syrian asylum-seeker. German authorities have uncovered the case of a man who posed as a Syrian refugee and who was planning on carrying out a terror attack. The man, whose identity has not yet been released, […]
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