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 […]
How Youth Climate Strikers can and Must Keep up the Momentum
By Harriet Thew | – As part of one of the largest environmental protests ever seen, over a million young people went on strike on Friday March 15 2019, calling for more ambitious action on climate change. Inspired by Greta Thunberg, a Swedish school girl who protested outside the Swedish parliament every Friday throughout 2018, […]
Muslims are Biggest Victims of Terror Globally, and Extremists Share Much in Common
By Joe Burton | – In the aftermath of the tragic loss of life in Christchurch on Friday, the focus needs to be on supporting those who have lost their loved ones and on fostering a sense of national unity in the face of an heinous act of terrorism. Across the world, marches took place […]
Top Five Reasons the Syrian Revolution isn’t Actually Over
By Wendy Pearlman | – Bashar al-Assad has “won” the war in Syria – or so many analysts tell us. His regime has reconquered swaths of territory from rebel forces with starvation-and-surrender sieges, barrel bombs, chemical weapons and what one human rights investigator called “industrial scale” torture and killing of detainees. Still, the regime might […]
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