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protestors put their best argument forward: It’s taken thirty years and
$100 billion in scientific research to get here. They think they can
stop droughts. Now we know that the best thing about climate protestors
is their cardboard. Australians will surely now poke, Fun at each
bare-bottomed bloke, Who sought coal-mining closure, By their rear end
exposure, With each now the butt of a joke
By
undermining the National Sea Grant College Program, president is
hamstringing America’s ability to address long-term climate risks
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If the World Cup was determined strictly on the basis of sportsmanship,
Japan's team would win this thing no question. SEE ALSO: Anime theme
brings Japan and Senegal fans together at the World Cup Sadly, though,
that's not how it goes — as Japan knows all too well. Their mens team
lost Monday's knock-out round contest to Belgium at almost the last
possible moment, after holding a two-goal lead. T
While Monday's World Cup action gave us some typical Neymar antics , it
also delivered a bittersweet moment of class. It happened following
Japan's heartbreaking loss to Belgium. SEE ALSO: Someone brought an IRL
World Cup meme to a soccer match After going up 2-0 in an enormous upset
bid, Japan gave up the next three goals, including Belgium's
game-winner in the closing moments. The 3-2 loss ende
Climate
change is not a new thing, as evidenced by global warming that occurred
over 500 million years ago. Back during the Paleozoic era, some of
the...
On today's BradCast : Incredibly enough, one newly nominated Democratic
U.S. House candidate had to ask, out loud, on one of the weekend
network news shows: "Are we fighting or not?" The question was in
reference to whether Senate Democrats planned to do everything within
their power to block a vote on Donald Trump's nominee for the U.S.
Supreme Court. [ Audio link to show follows below. ] That D
An
extrasolar world 500 light years away could be the most promising place
yet to look for alien life. In a recent study, researchers from the
Georgia...
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Nigeria captain informed of ransom demand ahead of Argentina • Pa
Michael Obi, freed after a week in captivity, now in hospital Mikel John
Obi was told that his father had been kidnapped and would be killed if
he reported anything – just hours before he led Nigeria into their final
World Cup group phase tie against Argentina . The Nigeria captain
received the shocking news as he travelled on the
Rescue of boys should be sped up before downpours in next few days,
says minister Thai authorities are racing against the clock to rescue 12
boys and their football coach trapped in a cave, saying they may
attempt to evacuate the group before a fresh round of monsoon rains
expected this week. The group had been missing since finishing football
practice on 23 June, and were found alive late on Mon
Trump’s messy personal life doesn’t turn off red-state voters — because he shares their sexist view of women
A trusted lawyer turned on a corrupt president 45 years ago — and changed history. Are we witnessing a repeat?
The
agreement with OPEC to cut oil production has given Russia over 4
trillion rubles (shy of $65 billion) in additional revenue, according to
the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF). "Thanks to the work of
President Vladimir Putin with the King and Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia,
relations are in a unique phase, and this gives a great boost to the
budget. We believe that the Russian budget receiv
The
European Union realizes that Russia is the guarantor of the European
energy security, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko told
Sputnik commenting on the US calls to abandon the Nord Stream 2 gas
pipeline project. "I think that everyone in Europe realizes that Russia
is the guarantor of continent's energy security. And if we talk about US
ambitions to ensure this security, the cur
Health Enjoy your morning cup of joe with a dash of smugness. Here’s
the thing about coffee: there’s never been much scientific debate about
whether it’s healthy.
The structures may have housed officials responsible for overseeing the production of food for a paramilitary force.
ETH
researchers have fortuitously discovered that Gulf Stream eddies are
rich in iron, and these eddies transport this essential micronutrient to
the iron-poor North Atlantic Gyre. Before this discovery, the typical
assumption was that this part of the ocean received iron primarily from
Saharan dust.
Currently,
atomic force microscopes (AFMs) are one of the most widely used tools
for imaging, measuring, and manipulating matter at the nanoscale. One of
the key components of an AFM is a microscale oscillator, which scans
the topographical features of a sample. Unfortunately, however, the
fabrication of microscale oscillators is a complex and expensive
process.
LGBTQ scientists are still left out LGBTQ scientists are still left
out, Published online: 03 July 2018; doi:10.1038/d41586-018-05587-y
Support from mainstream diversity initiatives would create a virtuous
circle of visibility and benefit science for all, urges Jon Freeman.
A new study documents a 75 percent reduction of pertussis
hospitalizations among babies six months and under whose mothers got the
Tdap immunization while pregnant. The study, published in the American
Journal of Preventative Medicine , is the first to look at clinical
outcomes of the vaccine in infants over the first 18 months of life.
“This just adds more fuel to the fire for encouraging women
The tables have turned for food critic Kalen Allen as he puts his
cooking skills to the test with a Potato Salad Cake recipe. Kalen once
said he would never try this cake. See what changed his mind. From:
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Beth Behrs, the "2 Broke Girls" star, shares bee facts and how they are
essential to human survival. Beth also covers how bees are similar to
the Kardashian family... and gets herself into a sticky situation. From:
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This week on the New World Next Week: police chief calls press
conference then arrests everyone who attends; California is flirting
with a fake news council; and there's blood in the water as the SPLC
pays up in a landmark defamation settlement.
Why don't the Saudis sell Aramco to China? How will Japan cope with
Iranian oil sanctions? Are Atta and the 9/11 "hijackers" just Lee Harvey
Oswald? And can the chaos on the global chessboard be a good thing?
Find out in this month's exciting installment of Questions For Corbett!
Satire? On the internet? Are you crazy?
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Why don't the Saudis sell Aramco to China? How will Japan cope with
Iranian oil sanctions? Are Atta and the 9/11 "hijackers" just Lee Harvey
Oswald? And can the chaos on the global chessboard be a good thing?
Find out in this month's exciting installment of Questions For Corbett!
This
week on the New World Next Week: police chief calls press conference
then arrests everyone who attends; California is flirting with a fake
news council; and there's blood in the water as the SPLC pays up in a
landmark defamation settlement.
The EnvironmentaList
Experts say our current mass extinction crisis requires an agreement embracing the 'Nature Needs Half' goal
New rule exempts Broughton Archipelago, raising questions about how big a win it is
In Review: Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore
With pet food responsible for 25% of environmental impacts of meat production, companies look for plant-based alternatives
From
documenting shark sightings to scoping out urban owl habitat, Earth
Island projects are embracing citizen science in their work
The Rules of Exposition
From
MarketWatch: Computers are getting more expensive and here’s why , July
2017: “Vendors raise the price for both new and existing models,” she
said. “For instance, a model A used to be $500, but the same model A
with same configuration is now $550.”
A Closer Look: Jody Paterson
I first heard about this story in April from a co-worker of mine, the
wife of Paul Razzell. I could hardly believe what I was hearing, and my
old reporter instincts came to life in an instant as I encouraged her to
have Paul call me so we could do a story. The question at the heart of
the story: Is it OK to film people as they go about their business in
the bar for the entertainment of men as the
I am remarkably excited that the long-talked-about podcast with sex
workers that I've been wanting to do for more than a year now has
finally come together. Here's our first episode . With any luck, we'll
be doing a new episode at least once a month. All episodes will be
looking at sex work as a small business, as there is so much the work
has in common with any other small business. Yet that asp
A Different Perspective
Nearly thirty years ago John Keel, one of those self-styled UFO
researchers that Ken Macdonald complained about in his June 2, 2018 AOL
Newsribol article about Roswell, said that by the turn of the century
(meaning in 2000), there would be hundreds of new witnesses clamoring
for their place in the Roswell mythology. Turns out he was right (not
about the mythology but about the new witnesses). Peo
I had always wondered why the Condon Committee, that University of
Colorado study of UFOs financed by the Air Force, which is to say us,
never bothered looking into the Levelland UFO sightings of November
1957. In their final report there is a single mention of Levelland in
which they report, “Magnetic mapping of automobiles involved in
particularly puzzling UFO reports of past years, such as the
Well, we have a new solution to the Roswell case. No, it’s not a
weather balloon as the Army Air Forces claimed in 1947 and no, it’s not a
Project Mogul balloon that many skeptics and the Air Force have
claimed, starting with Robert Todd in the early 1990s (or late 1980s)
but something called a satelloon. This was, is, a huge polyethylene
balloon that had been covered with a thin layer of aluminu
Here’s something that relates to my “Chasing Footnotes,” posts. Over
the weekend (June 1 and 2), I ran into an article that was related to
Roswell told by Raymond Szymanski (which I commented on here a few days
ago). As I was working on that article, I had a number of questions that
weren’t answered by any of the sources that I could readily access. I
was worried about the claim that Raymond Szym
As I was sitting around, waiting for summer to officially begin in a
couple of hours, I realized that the Lagina boys would be back at Oak
Island if there was really a plan for Season Six. I had noticed, at the
end of Season Five, as they sat around in their war room, that Dan
Blankenship didn’t seem to be too enthusiastic for another assault on
the island and said that it wasn’t his money to spe
In the world of the UFO, we frequently talk about cognitive dissonance,
which is defined, simply as “ the mental discomfort (psychological
stress) experienced by a person who simultaneously holds two or more
contradictory beliefs, ideas, or value.” It means believing in two
things that seem to mutually exclusive. We run into this, I believe,
when we begin to talk about the Eisenhower Briefing Doc
Amused Cynicism
Some people marched in Perth today, against Brexit and for a second
referendum once we know the actual terms of the Brexit deal.
The front page of today’s Times has two Brexit-related stories: ( full
size image ) The first that Brexit may force aircraft manufacturer
Airbus out of Britain, with the loss of 124,000 jobs. The second that,
because of a shortage of foreign workers, British jobseekers are to be
encouraged to consider seasonal fruit picking where apparently you can
earn “£675 a week in comfortable conditions” (no
Angola 3 News
Working for social justice frequently seems to be a glacially slow
endeavor. This last week brought a summer thaw and more than a few
things have changed. We celebrate and honor the work of Professor Angela
A. Bell and the students in her Law and Minorities classes at Southern
University for their remarkable efforts in seeing the long delayed
parole of John Cluchette through to his release. Pleas
Watch a short video interview with John Clutchette following his
release, here . ( PHOTO : John Clutchette in the 1980s. ) Today 'Soledad
Brother' John Clutchette walked out of the prison gates a free man,
following Governor Jerry Brown's final approval of a January 12, 2018
decision by the California Parole Board to grant parole to Clutchette.
On January 18, we published an interview with Southe
The Entire Western World Lives In Cognitive Dissonance June 21, 2018 |
Categories: Articles & Columns | The Entire Western World Lives In
Cognitive Dissonance Paul Craig Roberts In this column I am going to use
three of the current top news stories to illustrate the disconnect that
is everywhere in the Western mind. Let us begin with the family
separation issue. The separation of children from im
The Absence of Diplomacy Is Isolating Washington — Paul Craig Roberts
June 5, 2018 | Categories: Articles & Columns The Absence of
Diplomacy Is Isolating Washington Paul Craig Roberts The dissolution of
the Soviet Union removed the constraint on Washington’s unilateralism.
The neoconservatives, who had just risen to power, seized the
opportunity and replaced diplomacy with threat and coercion. On
Craig Murray
Even I was taken aback by the sheer scale of British active involvement
in extraordinary rendition revealed by yesterday’s report of the
parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee. Dominic Grieve and
the committee deserve congratulations for their honesty, integrity and
above all persistence. It is plain from the report that 10 Downing
Street did everything possible to handicap the work of
Human beings can communicate by gesture and facial expression as well
as by verbal language. In the following video, at 39 seconds in BBC
presenter Jo Coburn is not communicating to the viewer – the director
has switched back to her before she expects. She is however working very
hard on communicating non-verbally to somebody, presumably the
director, with quite an extreme facial gesture. My ques
A few weeks’ break gives you a perspective on British politics aside
from the day to day excitements, and the long view is just horrible. An
astonishingly inept and irrelevant government maintains itself by a
series of straight lies to both Tory Remainers and Tory Brexiteers about
its intentions. Both these groups know they are being lied to, but the
show stutters on because all in the Tory Party
This is the third time I have posted that there is a temporary hiatus
in blogging but nothing to worry about, and subsequently ended up in
hospital. Just discharged from Edinburgh Royal Infirmary after losing an
unexpected argument with a piece of agricultural machinery. Between
Eden Festival and that, I have missed the most fascinating fortnight in
politics this year. Next time I have a break I
Given the centuries of economic exploitation, political domination and
depopulation, I perfectly understand why many Scots support any team at
the World Cup which is playing England. But, with an English mother and
two English grandparents who largely brought me up, I do not feel that
way and I raised a glass at Harry Kane’s late winner. Let me tell you
why. My grandfather Henry was a lifelong so
I apologise for the silence. I am perfectly well, thanks for all the
queries, but am on the site of the Eden Festival and working rather too
hard. The post Silence is Sort of Dirty Bronzeish appeared first on
Craig Murray .
The Tucson Unified School District (TUSD) school board recently
defended its decision to not re-implement the highly successful Mexican
American Studies (MAS) program after Arizona’s 2010 HB 2281 legislation
essentially banned the subject from the district’s schools. The majority
of the board contends that the district’s new “Culturally Relevant
Curriculum” (CRC), introduced after 2012, is essent
Zero and Infinity, you find books written on these topics in all good
book shops . Look at my hands, that's base ten that is, and I'm going to
count. My thumb is one, then the four fingers of that hand. Then the
thumb and four fingers of the other hand. Here's how base ten 'should
look' without zero and infinity messing up the beautiful equation. I II
III IV V VI VII XIII IX X The next row of bas
...now
that we've got rid of the sensationalist naysayers and grant-funded
academists, here's the latest presentation of evidence suggesting that
the Bosnian Pyramids Complex (Sun, Moon, Earth & Dragon) is more
than a little like the Teotihuacan complex of pyramids just outside of
Mexico City. And made of very modern concrete, dating from 24,000 to
12,000 BC... It's interesting stuff. Let's see wh
I
don't normally do 'sports' on the Free Planet blog, but I always
respect karate kids who are this fucking hardcore that they can switch
style and dominate their chosen sport with consummate ease. From Japan,
he'll be just twenty years old this August with a glowing record of wins
under his belt, Tenshin Nasukawa - kickin' m.m.a. ass.
in
this charmingly cogent video gently narrated by Barry Fitzgerald the
topic of THE MISDIRECTION OF OUR HISTORY is discussed. This Misdirection
, Barry insists is reinforced by those who report upon our history,
write our history books and teach our children what's supposed to have
happened. Barry takes his cue from the work of Silvie Ivanova who has
put out many Ancient History videos through he
thanks
to Richard D Hall of Rich Planet for putting together this excellent
re-working of the historical British timeline... Coelbren Alphabet,
coming via Egypt and the Mediterranean A List of British Kings, coming
via Wales not Germany Did we all used to speak Khumric, or ancient
Assyrian?
...and
because I save a small dark corner of my heart for anything this
blatantly Giger-ish, here's a recent gameplay trailer for October-due
game SCORN
Government and Taxes
Thank you President Trump, Chairman Kim. You are no angels (none of us
here) but it is better to have more capitalism and commerce, less
communism and missiles, in Asia and the world. Great initiative (photo
below from BBC). "President Donald J. Trump of the United States of
America and Chairman Kim Jong Un of the State Affairs Commission of the
Democratic People's Republic of Korea have committe
* This is my column in BusinessWorld last Monday, June 11. From 2006 to
2013, the Mindanao grid had only 1,900 to 2,000 MW of installed power
capacity, mostly sourced from hydropower facilities that provide higher
output during the rainy season but declines during the summer. As a
result, power shortages lasting several hours a day are experienced
during dry spells. In 2014, the supply situation
* This is my article in BusinessWorld last June 7, 2018. In a free
trade, an effectual combination cannot be established but by the
unanimous consent of every single trader, and it cannot last longer than
every single trader continues of the same mind. — Adam Smith The Wealth
Of Nations (1776) Book IV Chapter VIII. Free trade should mean that
people are free to trade and do not need to secure per
US government, Republicans-Democrats distribution. Top, HOR; middle,
Senate; below, Governors. Republicans dominate all three layers, four
including the Presidency. Sources: (a) HOR,
http://history.house.gov/Institution/Party-Divisions/Party-Divisions/
(b) Senate, https://www.senate.gov/history/partydiv.htm (c) Governors,
https://www.statista.com/statistics/198486/number-of-governors-in-the-us-by
America First Energy Conference (AFEC 2018) in Hilton Riverside Hotel,
New Orleans, Louisiana, August 7. The 1st AFEC 2017 was also organized
by Heartland and was held at JW Marriott Houston, Texas on November 9,
2017. I attended that successful conference, seems I was the only Asian
in the big room and I have written some proceedings in my column in
BusinessWorld last year, US energy policies an
* This is my article in BusinessWorld last Wednesday, June 6. The
summit meeting between US President Donald Trump and North Korea leader
Kim Jong-Un (KJU) this coming June 12, 2018 in Singapore is marked with
several paradoxes. For one, the US is the biggest economy in the world
with a GDP size of $19.39 trillion in 2017 while the North Korean
economy is very small with an estimated GDP size of
Greg Mankiw's Blog
A
couple readers emailed me about yesterday's post , asking me whether I
want to enforce the law. The implicit suggestion is that President
Trump's immigration policy is simply law enforcement. Of course, I
believe in law enforcement, but enforcement has to be proportionate.
Double parking is illegal, but we don't execute people for double
parking. We give them a ticket. The Trump administration's
Interesting numbers from Phil Gramm and Robert B. Ekelund Jr .: The
bottom quintile earned 2.2% of all earned income in 2013, but after
adjusting for taxes and transfer payments, its share of spendable income
rose to 12.9%—six times its proportion of earnings. The second
quintile’s share more than doubled, rising from 7% of earned income to
13.9% of spendable income. For the third quintile, middl
David Brooks : For centuries, conservatives have repeated a specific
critique against state power. Statism, conservatives have argued, has a
tendency to become brutalist and inhumane because a bureaucracy can’t
see or account for the complexity of reality. It tries to impose uniform
rules on the organic intricacy of human relationships. Statist social
engineering projects cause horrific suffering
Click here to read my column in Sunday's New York Times .
Left I on the News
Click here to listen to this week's segment on Loud & Clear Radio .
Headlines with an * are the ones we managed to fit in in our allotted
11 minutes. CANDIDATES FOR “WORST”/”MOST DISGUSTING”: *Trump and Putin: A
Love Story
https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000005935591/trump-and-putin-a-love-story.html?playlistId=100000005954997
Disgusting homophobia with the NY Times imprimatur. *Fears gr
Click here to listen to this week's segment on Loud & Clear Radio .
Headlines with an * are the ones we managed to fit in in our allotted
11 minutes. CANDIDATES FOR “WORST”/”MOST DISGUSTING”: *Mattis slams
Russia, says Putin 'attempts to undermine America's moral authority
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/15/politics/mattis-slams-russia-putin/index.html
Or should this be under funniest? “He aims to di
This New York Times article —original title “How Russian Meddling Gave
Us This Year’s World Cup”, later changed to the noncommittal “Did Russia
Steal the World Cup?”)—is the latest manifestation of Russiamania,
featuring none other than Christopher Steele. Yes, that’s Christopher
Steele of Trump dossier and “pee tape” fame, as the article’s subtitle
immediately reminds us. Spoiler alert — the ans
Click here to listen to this week's segment on Loud & Clear Radio .
Headlines with an * are the ones we managed to fit in in our allotted
11 minutes. CANDIDATES FOR “WORST”/”MOST DISGUSTING”: *The Biggest
Winner at the U.S.-North Korea Summit: China
https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-biggest-winner-at-the-us-north-korea-summit-china
*The big winner of the Trump-Kim summit? China. ht
Click here to listen to this week's segment on Loud & Clear Radio .
Headlines with an * are the ones we managed to fit in in our allotted
11 minutes. CANDIDATES FOR “WORST”/”MOST DISGUSTING”: *A Woman Dedicated
to Saving Lives Loses Hers in Gaza Violence
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/02/world/middleeast/gaza-paramedic-killed.html
Actually a decent article, even with an accompanying video includ
Middle Class Political Economist
With
all the dreary news we've seen this week, could you stand some good
news? The battle against investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) got a
huge boost in March when the Court of Justice of the European Union
(CJEU) ruled in Slovak Republic v. Achmea B.V. ("Achmea") that ISDS is
contrary to EU law. The decision was something of a surprise because the
preliminary analysis ("opinion," in EU-spea
The
June 28 Taxcast is out with a focus on the Big Four accounting firms.
Richard Brooks is the author of Bean Counters: The triumph of the
accountants and how they broke capitalism (order here in the UK and here
in the US) which documents accountants' involvement in some of the
world's worst financial scandals, not least of which is the promotion of
tax havens. The new segment also features U.S.
News From Atlantis.
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--By Sebastian Justice Kennedy resigning is a horrible blow. As a gay
man I wouldn't say that he always had our back, but he was an ally (in
the sense of having very different priorities, yet still working
together with us) nonetheless. If we are going to get through all this
we probably need to accept even reluctant sort-of allies. In the parts
of the blogosphere and social media world I inhabit
by liberal japonicus We have one open thread, but I thought one
unpolluted by American issues might be nice and, since the World Cup has
no US team, well, there you go. I won't explain much, cause if you like
soccer/football, you probably know, if you don't, you probably aren't
interested. I like soccer, but I didn't grow up with it, so I'd
certainly be interested in people who are more knowledge
by JanieM One of my favorite signs from the Augusta event: Open thread,
with an emphasis on reporting in from here there and everywhere. The
Augusta event was well attended, if on nowhere near the scale of the
women's march. Of the people I might have gone with, several were away
and one was in the hospital, but practically everyone in Maine knows
everyone else, so I wasn't lonely. :-) It was a h
by Doctor Science Sneakers September 1999 - June 15, 2018 We had to say
good-bye to Sneakers on Friday. He'd clearly reached the end of the
line, he wasn't eating and was down to skin and bones. He had a really
good run: more than 18 1/2 years is a full life for a cat, and he had
very few illnesses or problems before the last few months. We loved him
(especially me), and he loved us (especially m
by wj For the past week, we have mostly been focused on the family
separation fiasco. Understandably. But in some senses this has been just
another distraction effort (after all, they have now gone 3 steps
forward and 1 step back; probably without general notice of the net
movement). Meanwhile, there have been other things going on which will
end up having a bigger impact on more people, both in
by Ugh Today SCOTUS decided Carpenter v. United States , saying
essentially if the police want to gather your cell phone location
records for the past ____ days they need a warrant under the 4th
Amendment. In the decision, in an opinion by the Chief Justice (who
continues to vie with Kennedy for "least awful GOP nominee", the other
three being hopeless in almost all cases), notes that "A person d
Paying attention
My latest Tyee column People are dying on the streets I walked to work
in Managua just two years ago. Masaya, a smaller town about an hour away
by bus, is a battlefield. The streets of Leon, where we also lived,
were filled with improvised barriers as neighbours united to keep out
police and government supporters. This is what revolutions look like, I
suppose, but it is still surreal to see all t
Screw You Guys, I'm Going Home
The
Supreme Court, hijacked by conservatives when they refused to allow
President Obama to appoint a Justice during his term, has predictably
put another knife in the back of labor unions. The Republican plan is to
eliminate unions altogether. They may succeed. So I wanted to do a
rerun of an article I wrote some time ago about why you should give
thanks to labor unions and support them by joining
If
there is one thing that will make a huge difference in the fight for
worker rights, it's unions. Yet unions are under attack . Employers try
to bust unions and prevent unionization. They do everything they can to
make sure their workforce is not unionized, and if it is, to discourage
workers from joining the union. So what if we could change that picture
just a little? What if employers had an
There
are two big stories in the headlines involving employee speech and the
consequences thereof. If you haven't heard of both, welcome back from
the coma. The most recent was Roseanne Barr's racist tweet rant , which
resulted in the cancellation of her number 1 rated TV show, Roseanne.
Then there has been the ongoing saga of NFL players kneeling during the
national anthem in protest over the ext
In
the land of what-the-heck-were they thinking , I give you page 10 of
Harvey Weinstein's contract, Paragraph i, which is basically an
admission that the company's board and management were aware of his
propensity to sexually harass. I can't believe they put this in, and
I'll be shocked if a judge and/or jury doesn't slap them hard with
punitive damages and some personal liability. necessary to f
Syria Comment
It Would Have Been Preferable Not to Militarily Intervene in Syria; It
Has Turned Out to Be a Disaster By Ambassador Dr. Nikolaos van Dam @
nikolaosvandam Interviewed by Mohsen Abdelmoumen Originally published
June 03, 2018 on American Herald Tribune Mohsen Abdelmoumen: You are a
diplomat and you know very well the Middle East region where you have
been Ambassador of the Netherlands in several co
Israel’s Secret war for Syria’s Independence By Meir Zamir (First
published in Haaretz newspaper, June 15, 2018) At the end of the War of
Independence, Israel faced a policy dilemma with regard to Syria. The
armed confrontation on the border around the demilitarized zones and
over the draining of Lake Hula was continuing, and Syria still claimed
the waters of Lake Kinneret. At the same time, Isra
Juliette El-Mir Saadeh: Gender politics and women in armed conflict By
Christopher Solomon June 9, 2018 – For Syria Comment Juliette El-Mir
Saadeh, the wife of Syrian Social Nationalist Party founder Antoun
Saadeh, set a trend for the political and social norms for gender
politics in the Levant. The red five-pointed star on the yellow flag of
the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) evokes the
By Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi The remaining rebel-held areas of Deraa and
Quneitra are currently witnessing the beginning of a military campaign
by the Syrian government to retake those areas, with heavy bombardment
and displacement in the eastern Deraa countryside in particular. How did
we get to this stage and what is the likely outcome? Perhaps the
foremost issue for discussion is Russia’s role in
U.S. Involves itself Ever Deeper in Middle East with No Clear Strategic
Interest By Sam Farah For Syria Comment – June 6, 2018 On May 8,
President Trump announced that he was pulling the U.S. out of the Iran
deal. On May 12, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced his 12 points
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