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Yemen
Yemen War: Do We Americans bear a Responsibility to Halt it?

Yemen War: Do We Americans bear a Responsibility to Halt it?

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By Olivia Alperstein | (Otherwords.org) | – – American taxpayers are helping to fight someone else’s war in Yemen, and the blood is on our hands. Since March 2015, the United States has supported a military coalition led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) that’s intervening in a civil war in Yemen. […]

Syria
Russia says Syrian rebels to be brought out of Douma

Russia says Syrian rebels to be brought out of Douma

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Middle East Monitor | – – Russia’s military said an operation would begin on Sunday to bring fighters of the Jaish al-Islam rebel group out of their besieged enclave of Douma, Interfax reported, after the Syrian government said the group had asked for negotiations. There was no immediate comment from Jaish al-Islam. The group so […]

Petroleum
Why Electric Cars are Better:  Massive Keystone Pipeline Oil Leak Twice as bad as Thought

Why Electric Cars are Better: Massive Keystone Pipeline Oil Leak Twice as bad as Thought

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TeleSur | – – The spill gave further ammunition to environmental groups and other U.S. opponents of another pipeline the company has proposed, the long-delayed Keystone XL. The Keystone crude oil pipeline leak in November in rural South Dakota was nearly double the original estimate, making it one of the largest U.S. inland spills since […]

Qatar
Geographical Warfare?: Saudi plans to make Qatar an Island

Geographical Warfare?: Saudi plans to make Qatar an Island

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By Daniel Martin Varisco | (MENA Tidningen) | – – On June 5, 2016 Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Bahrain began a boycott of its Gulf neighbor Qatar, the richest country in the world, cutting off land and air travel over their space. No doubt the same countries that had launched a war against Yemen […]

Syria
Kurds of Afrin looted by Turkey-backed Arab Militias, as Syria blocks Kurdish Exodus

Kurds of Afrin looted by Turkey-backed Arab Militias, as Syria blocks Kurdish Exodus

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Human Rights Watch | – – Turkish-Allied Groups Loot, Destroy People’s Property (Beirut) – Syrian government forces are blocking some civilians fleeing the Turkish-led military actions in Afrin from entering territory under government control, Human Rights Watch said today. The civilians are stranded in areas with limited food, clean water, and medical supplies. Syrian government […]

Israel/ Palestine
Israeli Snipers assassinate one Palestinian Journalist, Wound 3 others

Israeli Snipers assassinate one Palestinian Journalist, Wound 3 others

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TeleSur | – – The Great March of Return began on March 30th and will continue until May 15. A Palestinian journalist covering the Great March of Return in Gaza died Saturday after being wounded by live Israeli ammunition Friday. Yaser Murtaja, a 30-year-old cameraman with Ain Media, became the 29th Palestinian killed in protests […]

Donald Trump
Psychopathocracy Matures: Trump asks why CIA did not Massacre family of Militant with Drone

Psychopathocracy Matures: Trump asks why CIA did not Massacre family of Militant with Drone

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By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Greg Jaffe at the Washington Post reports that Trump has reversed an Obama-era push to get the Central Intelligence Agency out of the business of assassinating people with drone strikes (Obama had tried to shift most such operations to the Department of Defense). In the course […]

Green Energy
Solar is taking over the World and China is taking over Solar

Solar is taking over the World and China is taking over Solar

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By Frédéric Simon | EURACTIV.com | – – Solar power dominated a global ranking of new renewable energy investments “like never before” last year, with China accounting for more than half of the world’s new capacity, the UN said on Thursday (5 April). Investments in Europe, on the other hand, recorded a massive drop. The […]

Israel/ Palestine
Peaceful Protest: More Palestinians Killed, Injured on Day of the Burning Tires

Peaceful Protest: More Palestinians Killed, Injured on Day of the Burning Tires

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Ma’an News Agency | – – GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — A second Palestinian protester was shot and killed by Israeli forces along the Gaza border, the Palestinian Ministry of Health confirmed around 4:30 p.m. The slain Palestinian was identified as Majdi Ramadan Shabat. He was killed in demonstrations taking place east of Gaza City, in […]

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