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Dutch Judges Order Netherlands to protect its Caribbean Island of Bonaire from Climate Change
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Dutch Judges Order Netherlands to protect its Caribbean Island of Bonaire from Climate Change

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the “residents of Bonaire were wrongly treated differently from residents of the European Netherlands.”

The Iranian Protests Explained: Outside Intervention will only undercut Efforts by Iranians to transform their System

The Iranian Protests Explained: Outside Intervention will only undercut Efforts by Iranians to transform their System

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Fossil Fuels are Doomed — and Trump can’t Save them

Fossil Fuels are Doomed — and Trump can’t Save them

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Controversial, Not Controversial (Brennan v. Hagel, Big Oil v. Solar & other Media Hypocrisies)

Controversial, Not Controversial (Brennan v. Hagel, Big Oil v. Solar & other Media Hypocrisies)

Not controversial: John Brennan: Served in CIA during the torture program, designed the current US drone program that has extra-judicially killed hundreds, including children and […]

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Energy
Climate Change is turning Australia Purple with Blazing Heat

Climate Change is turning Australia Purple with Blazing Heat

The heat wave or “dome of heat” afflicting Australia may produce a record temperature of over 122 degrees F. (over 50 degrees C.). For temperatures […]

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The Syrian Opposition Attacks Bashar al-Assad’s Defiant Speech (Aljazeera & Alarabiya via OSC)

The Syrian Opposition Attacks Bashar al-Assad’s Defiant Speech (Aljazeera & Alarabiya via OSC)

The USG Open Source Center translates broadcasts from Arabic satellite television concerning the speech on Sunday of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, in which he again […]

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Top Ten Reasons Chuck Hagel Should be Secretary of Defense

Top Ten Reasons Chuck Hagel Should be Secretary of Defense

I doubt Chuck Hagel, the former Republican senator from Nebraska, and I would agree about almost anything with regard to domestic US politics. Unless his […]

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Climate Change is Snowballing on Obama: Time for Drama, not Gradualism! (McKibben)

Climate Change is Snowballing on Obama: Time for Drama, not Gradualism! (McKibben)

Bill McKibben writes at Tomdispatch Change usually happens very slowly, even once all the serious people have decided there’s a problem. That’s because, in a […]

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Syrian Revolutionaries Continue Damascus Operations as Bashar takes to Airwaves

Syrian Revolutionaries Continue Damascus Operations as Bashar takes to Airwaves

Beleagured President Bashar al-Assad addressed the nation on Sunday, in a “Baghdad Bob” moment, in which he more or less denied he has lost control […]

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Mass Shootings don’t Provoke States to Regulate Semi-Automatic Weapons (Sapien)

Mass Shootings don’t Provoke States to Regulate Semi-Automatic Weapons (Sapien)

Joaquin Sapien writes at ProPublica: Following the mass shooting in Connecticut, the Obama administration and lawmakers around the country have promised to re-examine gun control […]

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What Juan’s Been Tweeting (Saturday Reading)

What Juan’s Been Tweeting (Saturday Reading)

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The Secret History of US Drone Strikes in 2012 (Woods et al.)

The Secret History of US Drone Strikes in 2012 (Woods et al.)

Chris Woods, Jack Serle and Alice K. Ross write at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism: Reported civilian deaths fell sharply in Pakistan in 2012, with […]

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