TeleSur | – – More than 10,000 – mostly civilians – have been killed and more than 3 million have been displaced in the conflict. Whistleblowing organization Wikileaks on Friday dropped yet another batch of files, this time detailing evidence of the United States arming, training and financing Yemeni forces in the build up to […]
With Trump, we’ve all Entered the Dark Dimension of Dormamu
By James A. Haught | (Charleston Gazette-Mail) | – – Existentialists contend that humanity has a streak of irrational absurdity that defies logical understanding. The Donald Trump presidential victory rouses that feeling. Ever since election night, I’ve felt like a Franz Kafka character caught in incomprehensible circumstances that make no sense. Whatever possessed 61 million […]
Overheated Arctic: Climate Change ‘Vicious Circle’
TeleSur | – – Ice cover at the top of the globe shrank to its smallest area in 2016 —some 4.14 million sq km (1.6 million sq miles)— on September 16. Freakishly high temperatures in the Arctic driven by heat-packed oceans and northward winds have been reinforced by a “vicious circle” of climate change, scientists […]
World Bank: Only 10 percent of Gazans have access to safe drinking water
Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The World Bank denounced the worsening water crisis in the Gaza Strip, calling the situation in the besieged Palestinian enclave “alarming” on Wednesday. In a statement released by the World Bank, senior water and sanitation specialist Adnan Ghosheh stated that only 10 percent of the population […]
Raining Bombs: Mosul Fight hits Trapped Civilians
By a Special Correspondent | Mosul | (Niqash.org) | – – Inside their homes, a lack of food and water; outside, bombs, snipers and crossfire. Yet many Mosul locals are choosing to stay in the city, even though it’s a war zone. Despite the fact that extremists have been driven out of their Mosul neighbourhood, […]
Electricity shortage causes children’s hospital in Gaza to suspend medical care
Ma’an News Agency | – – GAZA (Ma’an) — Health services in a children’s hospital in Gaza will be suspended for more than a day due to a lack of fuel to power its generators, the Ministry of Health of the besieged Palestinian enclave said in a statement on Wednesday. The ministry said that the […]
From Wanda Sykes to ACLU: How to Show Solidarity in the Age of Trump
TeleSur | – – Building a wall of support against Trump’s wall of rhetoric is the way forward. Wanda Sykes, a Black lesbian comedian, was booed because she dared to rant against the new U.S. president-elect just five minutes into her set. “I am certain this is not the first time we’ve elected a racist, […]
Racism in the US runs far deeper than Trump’s white supremacist fanbase
By Nicholas Guyatt | (The Conversation) | – – Donald Trump’s astonishing rise to the presidency has put racism at the heart of American politics. From the very start of his campaign, Trump called Mexicans “criminals” and “rapists” while pledging to build a wall between the US and its southern neighbour. He shocked the world […]
Israel’s sliding definition of anti-Semitism in the Trump era
By Heike Schotten | (Ma’an News Agency) | – – You would think that support for Israel is fundamentally at odds with anti-Semitism. If you thought that, however, you would be wrong. The past few days have witnessed a bizarre pile-up of prominent Israel-supporters going out of their way to defend or excuse what seem […]