By Corynne McSherry and Elliot Harmon | ( Electronic Frontier Foundation) | – – As the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) gets ready to abandon a decade of progress on net neutrality, some in Congress are considering how new legislation could fill the gap and protect users from unfair ISP practices. Unfortunately, too many lawmakers seem […]
Israeli Policies eroding Rights of Palestinian children in Occupied West Bank
Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — On the anniversary of Universal Children’s Day, international NGO Save the Children released a statement highlighting ongoing the rights violations of Palestinian children in the occupied territory by Israel. Jennifer Moorehead, the country director of Save the Children in the occupied Palestinian territory called for greater […]
Come Back, Barack – SNL/ Chance the Rapper Video
Chance the Rapper et al. | Saturday Night Live | (Video Clip) | – – De-Von-Tré (Chance the Rapper, Kenan Thompson, Chris Redd) wishes President Barack Obama would come back. Saturday Night Live: “Come Back, Barack – SNL”
COP23: Global Heating threatens Mideast with Mega-Droughts
By Christophe Maroun | ( GlobalVoices.org) | – – As the world's nations met in Bonn, Germany for the 23rd annual conference of the parties (COP23) under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), 2017 was set to be one of the hottest years on record. COP 23 Logo. Source: COP 23 Website. Researchers […]
MbS a la Trump: “Making Saudi Arabia Great Again”!
By Reese Erlich | ( 48hills.org) | – – I stood in front of a mosque in the city of Qatif, Saudi Arabia, interviewing people for a story. Suddenly, two city police cars pulled up. Several minutes later plain clothes officers from the secret police began questioning me. I had entered the country with a […]
Trump’s revival of ‘Tactical Nuclear Weapons’ Idiocy endangers World
By Michael T. Klare | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – Maybe you thought America’s nuclear arsenal, with its thousands of city-busting, potentially civilization-destroying thermonuclear warheads, was plenty big enough to deter any imaginable adversary from attacking the U.S. with nukes of their own. Well, it turns out you were wrong. The Pentagon has been fretting […]
Republicans Admit Their Tax Plan Is All About Rich Donors
By Peter Certo | (Otherwords.org) | – – It’s unpopular. It’s expensive. But the donors want it. Sometimes I have to remind myself that people in “real America” with “real jobs” don’t while away their mortal hours reading about politics. But God help me, if you’ve suffered through any coverage of the Republican tax plan, […]
Militant Buddhism is on the march in South-East Asia; Why Now?
By Peter Lehr | (The Conversation) | – – Even ten years on, the first mental image that comes to mind with regard to Theravāda Buddhism is that of Myanmar’s Saffron Revolution of August-September 2007: thousands of Buddhist monks peacefully demonstrating in the streets of Yangon, Mandalay, Pakokku, Sittwe and other towns against the ruling […]
Is Saudi King Salman about to be pushed aside by Son?
TeleSur | – – Speculation has mounted that the King of Saudi Arabia, Salman bin Abdulaziz, will step down and pass the throne to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman next week. The United Kingdom’s Daily Mail quoted a source “close to the royal family” by saying that the 81-year-old King Salman plans to abdicate and […]
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