TeleSur | – – The Turkish military launched an offensive against Kurdish-held Afrin region over three weeks ago. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has reported the downing of a Turkish military helicopter in Syria. Speaking to members of his Justice and Development Party (AK Party) on Saturday Erdogan said “these things will happen, we are in […]
Cheap German Green Energy, Decarbonization Laws, Pressuring Dirty Polish Coal
By Bartłomiej Derski | Euractiv.com / WysokieNapiecie.pl | translated by Alexandra Brzozowski | – – Since 1990, the production of “green” electricity in Germany has increased by 1,000% and export rates, according to preliminary data for 2017, just smashed another record. EURACTIV Poland’s partner WysokieNapiecie.pl reports. When Germany was reunified, three electricity sources reigned supreme: […]
Severe Humanitarian Crisis in Occupied Palestine looms with Trump Cuts
IMEMC | – – AIDA, an International non-governmental organization (INGO) coordination body consisting of more than 70 of such organizations working in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt), expressed alarm at the United States government’s recent decision to politicize its assistance to millions of Palestinian refugees. Reducing funding to UNRWA, the UN agency whose primary mandate […]
Another Reason for Renewables: Growing Israel-Lebanon Conflict over Gas
Middle East Monitor | – – Lebanon will fully use energy block disputed by Israel – minister Israel claims gas field put out to tender by Lebanon Lebanon’s energy minister said on Friday there would be full exploration in an offshore energy block that partially lies in waters disputed by neighbouring Israel. Lebanon said on […]
Turkish Jets again Strike Syria, hitting US-Allied Kurdish YPG Targets
TeleSur | – – Turkey views the growing Kurdish power along its border as a national security threat. Turkish warplanes hit Kurdish YPG militia targets in Syria’s Afrin region, the army said Friday, and a monitoring group reported that seven fighters and two civilians were killed in strikes. The overnight attacks came after a lull […]
The hidden superpower of ‘Black Panther’: Scientist role models
Clifford Johnson | (The Conversation) | – – I’m not the first to say that the upcoming Marvel movie “Black Panther” will be an important landmark. Finally a feature film starring a black superhero character will be part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe – a successful run of intertwined movies that began with “Iron Man” […]
Yemeni Peace Nobelist Karman: Saudi Arabia, UAE are occupying Yemen
Middle East Monitor | – – Yemeni Nobel Peace laureate Tawakkol Karman called for an end to the Saudi-led coalition’s military occupation of Yemen in an exclusive interview with Reuters today. Tawakkol Karman, Via Belfer Center, YouTube “The Saudi-Emirati occupation … betrayed the Yemenis and sold them out, exploiting the coup of the Houthi militia […]
In Blow for British White Nationalists, Their Ancestor was Black
TeleSur | – – The connection often made between Britishness and whiteness was “not an immutable truth,” said Yoan Diekmann, a computational biologist. Cutting-edge DNA analysis of the oldest complete skeleton found in Britain has revealed that the first modern humans living on the territory had “dark to black skin.” Tom Booth, an archaeologist at […]
Why Iranians are Really protesting Compulsory Veiling Laws
By Moujan Mirdamadi | (The Conversation) | – – Protests against Iran’s mandatory hijab law – which requires all women to wear it in public – have sprung up across Iran in the first few weeks of 2018. Women, acting individually, stood on utility boxes in public places, taking off their headscarves and holding them […]
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