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The Other Aleppo: A rare portrait of the Government-held Western City
Channel Four News | (Video News Report) | – – “We have seen the tragedy of East Aleppo which is under siege and fierce bombardment […]
Yemen & Dubai may be at War, but both are going Solar Big Time
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – There is big news on the solar energy front, with the price of panels and installation […]
Didn’t Stop Matthew: Fl. Gov. Rick Scott Banned term ‘Climate Change’
Lest we forget, here is a 2015 column full of ironies for Florida’s increasingly dire climate change challenge: Nadia Prupis, staff writer | ( Commondreams.org) […]
As Battle w/ ISIL for Mosul nears, Iraq should exclude Abusive Militias
Human Rights Watch | – – Role of Abusive Armed Forces, Treatment, and Screening of Detainees (Beirut) – The Iraqi government should make a commitment […]
The Ugly American: Donald Trump is our Mirror, not an Outlier
By Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – This is not about Donald Trump. And I mean it. From the moment the first […]
De Mistura: al-Qaeda must leave E. Aleppo to save it from Destruction
by Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura has addressed the Levant Conquest Front, whose leader, […]
Hurricane Matthew a Herald of Man-Made Climate Change
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – If your tv isn’t telling you the below, turn it off and read more Informed Comment […]
Return of Virulent Nationalism: how language is being used to mark national borders
Mario Saraceni | (The Conversation) | – – According to a series of newspapers, immigrants will apparently change the English language in Britain beyond repair […]
NSA again hacked by own Contractor, but wants us to trust them with our Data
TeleSur | – – “I thought the Third World War had started,” the man’s neighbor described the raid and arrest in August. A National Security […]