Guy Ziv | – The close results of the April 9 Israeli elections, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the apparent winner, represent a missed opportunity for his centrist rivals. As a foreign policy scholar who researches Israeli politics, I believe that perhaps the greatest irony of the election was the failure of Netanyahu’s challengers, […]
Don’t Blame Islamic Law for Muslim Extremism — Blame Western Colonialism
By Mark Fathi Massoud |- Warning that Islamic extremists want to impose fundamentalist religious rule in American communities, right-wing lawmakers in dozens of U.S. states have tried banning Sharia, an Arabic term often understood to mean Islamic law. These political debates – which cite terrorism and political violence in the Middle East to argue that […]
Our Oil, Gas and Chemicals are Threatening a Catastrophic Failure of Earth’s Global Systems: That is What Killed off the Dinosaurs
By Simon Beard, Lauren Holt and Paul Upchurch | – “Why did the dinosaurs die out?” The consensus, among palaeontologists and dinosaur crazy seven-year-olds alike, seems to be that about 66m years ago a 10km diameter asteroid crashed into what is now Central America. It raised up a cloud of dust and ash that spread […]
Turkey’s Erdogan Lost Key Cities in Paranoiac Campaign that ignored Sinking Economy
By Ihsan Yilmaz and Erdoan Shipoli | – Votes are still being counted in local elections that took place across Turkey on Sunday, but so far it appears that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s party has lost key cities and towns. That includes the Turkish capital Ankara, which has been run by Islamist mayors for the […]
We Don’t have a Global Emissions Problem, we Have a Rich Peoples’ CO2 Problem
By Nicholas Beuret | – American congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently shook up environmental politics by releasing a broad outline of a Green New Deal – a plan to make the US a carbon-neutral economy in the next ten years, while reducing both poverty and inequality. Lauded by many as a radical and necessary step, president […]
Global Heating Helped Cause the Massive Midwest Floods but TV Didn’t Tell you That
By Shuang-Ye Wu | – Flooding in the Midwest, triggered by an intense “bomb cyclone,” has devastated parts of the region, which has been plagued by flood events in recent decades. Floods are triggered by extreme rainfall events, often combined with ground conditions, such as saturated or frozen ground, that make it harder for water […]
Not So Fast… Could Trump still be Impeached for Obstruction of Justice?
By David Orentlicher | – Special counsel Robert Mueller did not find evidence that Trump or his campaign colluded with the Russian government to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. But Mueller, who submitted his report to the Department of Justice on March 22 after nearly two years of investigation, did not determine whether […]
Water, Oil and Netanyahu: Why Trump gave Syria’s Golan away to Israel
By Dina Badie | – Responding to pressure from the Israeli government, President Donald Trump has signaled via Twitter that his administration is poised to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights. This change of posture over a highly disputed and strategically valuable territory between Israel and Syria is being met with delight, disapproval and […]
How to Move beyond Simplistic Debates that Demonize Islam
By Edwina Pio | – New Zealand is a religiously and ethnically diverse country with an almost negligible global terrorism index. Muslims have lived in New Zealand, peacefully, for more than a century. In the latest census, Muslims represent 1.07% of New Zealand’s population, with the majority of Asian (63.1%) and Arab (21%) descent. Among […]
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