Special Correspondent | Baghdad | (Niqash.org) | – – Controversial videos are common on Iraqi social media. Viewed by millions, they increase social division and violence. NIQASH tries to separate two particularly disturbing examples into fact or fiction. The divisions between the different components of Iraqi society, whether those are ethnic or religious, has only […]
Russia Vows Response to ‘Aggressive’ Obama Sanctions
TeleSur | – – The Russian diplomats will have 72 hours to leave the United States. The United States’ new sanctions against Russia prove the foreign policy of the Obama administration is “aggressive,” Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin press-secretary, said Thursday, as the Kremlin indicated retaliatory measures against Washington. “In our point of view such actions […]
Kerry: Slams Palestinian Authority, but admits Israel Jeopardizes Peace
TeleSur | – – John Kerry claimed the Palestinian leadership enables terrorism as he defended the U.S. decision to let the U.N. resolution on Israeli settlements pass. After kicking off his speech on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict Wednesday with a lengthy condemnation of what he called Palestinian terror and the Palestinian leadership’s alleged celebration of “terrorists,” […]
Trump mires us in carbon Swamp with fossil cronies in key roles
The Tree | (Content for Climate Communicators) | – – Instead of draining the swamp as promised, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is doing the opposite, appointing powerful fossil fuel executives and dirty energy cheerleaders to top posts within his cabinet. Trump is filling the swamp to overflow, promoting candidates with serious conflicts of interests to […]
6 Reasons Feminist Carrie Fisher Was Ahead of Her Time
TeleSur | – – While all Star Wars (male) fans only remember Carrie Fisher in her sex-slave golden bikini, the late actress had a feminist conception of her role way ahead of her time. 1. As early as 1983, in an interview with Rolling Stones about the freshly-released “Return of the Jedi,” Fisher already had […]
After Israel Land-Theft Vote, will Trump & GOP Congress try to defund the UN?
By Thalif Deen | (Inter Press Service) | – – UNITED NATIONS (IPS) – The United States has had a longstanding love-hate relationship with the United Nations ever since 1952 when the world body began operations in New York city on an 18-acre piece of land which housed an abattoir where cattle was being trucked […]
How a Green Energy Revolution in Small-Town America will make Trump Irrelevant
By James and Deborah Fallows | (The Atlantic video Report) | – – “A move towards sustainable energy is often talked about as an issue for big government, especially during the 2016 election. However, across the United States, progress is being made in biofuel, wind, and solar power at the grassroots. Atlantic national correspondent James […]
Sanders: Trump’s Dangerous Nukes Talk Must be Challenged
By Jon Queally, staff writer | (Commondreams.org) | – – ‘Presidents, Republicans and Democrats, have understood that our goal must be to reduce the number of nuclear weapons, not expand them.’ Deriding President-elect Donald Trump as the ‘Twitter-in-Chief,’ Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said recent comments on a nuclear arms race must be challenged by members […]
Israeli TV Regulators Ban Ad for Calling Out Racism, Homophobia
By IMEMC | – – Calling Palestinian rights ‘problematic’ and LGBT rights a matter ‘in public dispute,’ the TV authority bans a public service announcement by Association for Civil Rights in Israel. The Second Authority for Television and Radio (SATR), a public body that supervises Israeli commercial television and radio stations, banned a public service […]
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