Kelly et al. should be drummed out of public service for misrepresentations
Did George W. Bush commit War Crimes & should he get Awards?
By Erik Edstrom | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – In George W. Bush’s home state of Texas, if you are an ordinary citizen found guilty of capital murder, the mandatory sentence is either life in prison or the death penalty. If, however, you are a former president of the United States responsible for initiating two […]
Iran Deal: 67% of US Citizens Don’t Want to Pull Out
TeleSur | – – U.S. President Donald Trump said last week he wants to “decertify” the agreement. A CNN poll has found that 67 percent of U.S. citizens don’t want Washington to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal. U.S. President Donald Trump said last week he wants to “decertify” the agreement, which would allow […]
Warm waters melting Antarctic ice shelves for 1st time in 7,000 years
Sev Kender | (The Conversation) | – – The vast expanse of the Antarctic is a region of the world particularly vulnerable to climate change, where ice loss has the potential to significantly increase sea levels. Now, for possibly the first time in 7,000 years, a phenomenon known as “upwelling” (the upward flow of warmer […]
Kirkuk Kurds Anguished about Future of Province
By Shalaw Mohammed | (Niqash.org) | (Kirkuk) | – – People in the northern city of Kirkuk have lived through a lot, including attacks by the Islamic State. But for many, last weekend was the last straw. In the middle of the night of October 16, the people of Kirkuk were glued to their televisions […]
Volcano-driven Climate Change Defeated Egypt’s Ptolemies
By Steven Young | ( The Watchers) | – – Around 245 BCE Ptolemy III, ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom in Egypt, made a decision that still puzzles many historians: After pursuing a successful military campaign against the kingdom’s nemesis, the Seleucid Empire, centered mainly in present-day Syria and Iraq, Ptolemy III suddenly decided to […]
Is racial bias driving Trump’s neglect of Puerto Rico?
By Lauren Lluveras | (The Conversation) | – – The morning after Hurricane Maria blasted through Puerto Rico, I emailed my aunt to ask if she was safe. That was Sept. 21. I heard back from her on Oct. 10. She was fine, she assured me, but “Puerto Rico is destroyed.” After that, my tia […]
Justice Roberts used bad Data to end Voting Rights Act & other shoddy SCOTUS Mistakes
By Ryan Gabrielson | ( ProPublica ) | – – ProPublica review adds fuel to a longstanding worry about the nation’s highest court: The justices can botch the truth, sometimes in cases of great import. In 2007, a group of California Institute of Technology scientists working at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory filed suit against the […]
“Tell me how this Ends”- Gen. Petraeus has decided Forever War Doesn’t
Will we bequeath Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Nigeria, Korea to our Grandchildren?
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