Ma’an News Agency | – – BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) released a report on Wednesday identifying 206 companies from around the world that are doing business linked to Israeli settlements, which are built in the occupied West Bank in violation of international law. The long-delayed report […]
Archives for February 2018
Is a Transition to Renewable Energy on the Verge of Being Unstoppable?
By Steven O. Kimbrough | ( Knowledge@Wharton) | – – As the world inches towards using more renewable energy and less fossil fuel for generating electricity, intermittency is an often-cited constraint to scaling up — that is, the availability of many renewables, such as wind and solar, cannot be controlled. But now there may be […]
Why the 1st Floating Wind Farm, off Scotland, Might Save the World (Video
Statoil | (Video Report) | – – “Some people thought we were crazy when we put a giant wind turbine on top of a floating spar structure and towed it out to sea. But it turned out to be the future, and the future is now. This year we made a giant leap forward as […]
Cherry-Picking Intel, Nunes and the Iraq War Disaster
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Here is a caution against the Nunes memo that the Republican Party intends to release: it is the sort of thing that got us into the disastrous Iraq War. Cherry-picking raw intelligence is one of the ways the hawks around Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld bamboozled Washington […]
Chiefs Of Three Russian Intelligence Agencies Travel To Washington
Mike Eckel | ( RFE/RL) | – – WASHINGTON — The directors of Russia’s three main intelligence and espionage agencies all traveled to the U.S. capital in recent days, in what observers said was a highly unusual occurrence coming at a time of heightened U.S.-Russian tensions. Russia’s ambassador to the United States had earlier confirmed […]
Saudi Prince reaps $106 bn from “Anti-Corruption” Scheme
Middle East Monitor | – – Saudi media sources yesterday confirmed the release of all detainees held on corruption charges at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in the capital Riyadh. The news comes following the release last weekend of Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal three months after his detention. Though full details of his release and […]
Egypt: Sisi Warns Opposition After Call for Elections Boycott
TeleSur | – – Opposition parties and leaders are calling for a boycott of Egypt’s presidential elections after other candidates were arrested or intimidated. Egypt’s president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi warned its political opponents after a boycott on next presidential elections was announced. “Be warned. What happened seven or eight years ago, will not happen again […]
Trump’s “Immigration Policy” is just a form of Ethnic Cleansing
By Peter Certo | (Otherwords.org) | – – I’ll be honest: I didn’t watch Trump’s State of the Union address when it aired. Instead, I put my baby to bed and watched reality TV with my wife. If that rattled a few brain cells, hopefully I saved a few more by not guzzling the bourbon […]
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