TheLipTV | – “Keystone XL pipeline opponents are being interrogated by the FBI who are using what one lawyer called “intimidation” and “force,” according to recent reports. This comes after President Barack Obama vetoed legislation that would have authorized the building of the pipeline last week. Accounts suggest that the FBI had been inquiring about […]
Netanyahu Doesn’t Speak For These Jews
AJ+ | – “Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he came to Congress to share his fears about Iran on behalf of all Jewish people. But these protesters and artists say “Bibi doesn’t speak for me,” and have instead written their own speeches about what they think he should say.” AJ+: “Netanyahu Doesn’t Speak For […]
Snowden will return to US if fair trial guaranteed – NSA whistleblower’s lawyer
RT | – “Edward Snowden would go to the US if he was sure that he would face a fair trial there, the former NSA contractor’s lawyer Anatoly Kucherena says.” RT: “Snowden will return to US if fair trial guaranteed – NSA whistleblower’s lawyer”
Climate Change helped Provoke Syrian Conflict & it won’t be the Last
By Thalif Deen | – UNITED NATIONS (IPS) – Was the four-year-old military conflict in Syria, which has claimed the lives of over 200,000 people, mostly civilians, triggered at least in part by climate change? A new study by Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory says “a record drought that ravaged Syria in 2006-2010 was likely […]
Earth’s Fate: The Obama Administration, Shell, and Drilling the Arctic
By Subhankar Banerjee | (Tomdispatch.com) – Here’s a Jeopardy!-style question for you: “Eight different species of whales can be seen in these two American seas.” Unless you’re an Iñupiaq, a marine biologist, or an Arctic enthusiast like me, it’s a pretty good guess that you can’t tell me what those seas are or what those […]
Israel’s Squatter Settlements on Palestinian Land Undermine its Security
Bill Van Esveld | (Human Rights Watch) – Israel’s prime minister has set the agenda for his visit to Washington, DC: the impact on Israel’s security of the Obama administration’s approach to Iran’s nuclear program. Disagreements over Iran may dominate the headlines, but Democrats and Republicans who are concerned about Israel’s security should realize that […]
Palestine to take Israel to Int’l Criminal Court for War Crimes
RT | – A Palestinian man stands at his makeshift shelter near the ruins of his house that witnesses said was destroyed by Israeli shelling during a 50-day war last summer, on a rainy day east of Gaza City February 19, 2015. (Reuters/Suhaib Salem) Palestine’s first complaint against Israel’s alleged war crimes will be filed […]
Gaza’s sole power plant to close as funding runs out
GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Gaza’s only power plant is due to shut down by the end of this week as donor funding for fuel in the coastal territory has run out, officials said. The energy and natural resource authority told Ma’an that the power plant had been using a Qatari grant to pay for diesel […]
The problem with Iraq’s offensive against the Islamic State
BAGHDAD (IRIN) – As the Iraqi army and affiliated militias sweep into northern Iraq to try to re-take the city of Tikrit from so-called Islamic State (IS), the local civilians are fearful they may be punished for the crimes of the Islamist militants. A force of around 30,000 made up of army soldiers and government-backed Shia […]
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