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ISIL, Yemen, Syria: Drought, Climate Change and new Wars
By David Reed | (Foreign Policy in Focus) – Natural resource scarcity poses a far broader challenge to prosperity and national security than traditional military […]
French Firm Pulls Out of Jerusalem Cable Car Project
by IMEMC News | – France-based utility giant Suez Environnement said Wednesday that, because of political sensitivities, it has decided not to take part in […]
Antarctic Ice Melting Faster than Ever in “Unstoppable Decline”
By Laurence Padman, Fernando Paolo and Helen Amanda Fricker | (The Conversation) Ask people what they know about Antarctica and they usually mention cold, snow […]
Who Has A Stake In Yemen Fight?
By Michael Scollon | (RFE/RL) – Yemen is at the center of a proxy war between regional heavyweights Iran and Saudi Arabia. It's the source […]
Lebanon’s Shiite Hizbullah slams Saudi attack on Yemen
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) – Hasan Nasrallah, the secretary-general of Hizbullah, Lebanese Shiite party-militia, weighed in on Friday on the Saudi intervention in […]
Will Indiana ‘Religious Freedom’ Law permit anti-Gay Discrimination?
Jackie Koppell and Jo Ankier | (TheLipTV) “Indiana Governor Mike Pence signed a religious freedom bill into law amid pressure from opponents who argue that […]
More Palestinians killed than any year since1967, Says United Nations
By Valentina Ieri UNITED NATIONS (IPS) – In 2014, the ongoing humanitarian crisis in the occupied Palestinian territories (oPt) saw the worst escalation of hostilities […]
Ted Cruz Thinks Non-Christians Have Too Much Power
Cenk Uygur, John Iadaola and Jimmy Dore | (The Young Turks) – “Cenk Uygur, John Iadaola and Jimmy Dore host of The Young Turks discusses […]
The rise of the Israeli far right & the future of Palestine
By Ghassan Khatib | (Ma’an News Agency) – The victory of Benjamin Netanyahu and his right-wing allies last week at the polls amounts to a […]