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Supporters of Iranian-backed militia end siege of U.S. Embassy in Baghdad

washingtonpost.com - By Mustafa Salim and Liz Sly Liz Sly Beirut bureau chief, covering Lebanon, Syria and the wider region Email Bio Follow January 1 at 5:30 PM BAGHDAD — The siege by supporters of an Iranian-backed mil…

Australia bushfires: tens of thousands stranded while attempting to flee

theguardian.com - Tens of thousands of people remained stranded on Thursday evening while attempting to flee bushfire-ravaged areas of the south-east Australian coast – having earlier been urged to leave before the re…

Australian state declares bushfire emergency

bbc.com - The premier of the Australian state of New South Wales has declared a week-long state of emergency in response to the escalating bushfire threat. High temperatures and strong winds are forecast for t…

Zoo director takes monkeys and pandas home to save them from deadly wildfires

washingtonpost.com - By Reis Thebault close Reis Thebault National and breaking news reporter Email EmailBio BioFollow Follow December 31, 2019 at 6:13 PM EST As the sky turned dark and a thick haze choked the air below,…

U.S. combat deaths in Afghanistan highest in years

thehill.com - Seventeen service members died in Afghanistan in 2019, the highest number since 2015, according to a year-end tally compiled by the Department of Defense and reported by Army Times. Fourteen of the f…

Opinion | Here are four suggested New Year’s resolutions for the media

washingtonpost.com - The Washington Post building on Dec. 23. (Erik S Lesser/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock) By Catherine Rampell close Catherine Rampell Columnist covering economics, public policy, politics and culture Email Emai…

Hong Kong kicks off 2020 with fresh protests

bbc.com - Hong Kong's protesters have welcomed a new decade via a New Year's Day rally, with tens of thousands joining a pro-democracy march. Though the gathering was largely peaceful, violence broke out in so…

How did Carlos Ghosn escape Japan?

bbc.com - He was once a titan of the car industry who held hero status in Japan. He then became one of the country's most well-known criminal suspects. Now he's an international fugitive. Carlos Ghosn, the mul…

‘It’s Creepy’: Unexplained Drones Are Swarming by Night Over Colorado

nytimes.com - Mr. Govan said that federal officials had tracking tools to figure out where the Colorado and Nebraska drones were coming from, but that the vast area over which the drones were operating could make …

Scientists warn the world is about to reach 'peak meat'

mnn.com - When it comes to meat, the world's plate is more than half full. In fact, scientists say it's fast approaching a tipping point. In a letter published in the The Lancet Planetary Health Journal, 50 in…

Icebreaker Pt 9 – Leaked Interrogation and Arrest ICE Manuals

unicornriot.ninja - United States – Unicorn Riot obtained confidential Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent policy manuals. Icebreaker part 9 covers several handbooks: arrest procedures, interviewing techniques, li…

A new way to give an old TB vaccine proves highly effective in monkeys

theconversation.com - What if you could make the tuberculosis vaccine much more powerful, not by altering the ingredients, but just by changing the way it is given to people? It would help prevent the infection that kills…

Trump's Environmental Proposals So Bad His Own Science Board Is Against Them

theroot.com - In news that is surprising to probably no one, a recent batch of environmental policies proposed by the Trump administration have been labeled trash. CNN reports that members of the Environment Prote…

This time-lapse video makes clear how Alaska's glaciers are changing

mnn.com - There's nothing quite like watching nearly 50 years' worth of ice as it transforms the planet's surface in the span of seconds. Certainly, the pace of this new time-lapse video from the University of…

Jakarta floods: 'Not ordinary rain', say officials

bbc.com - At least 21 people have died in flooding in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, after the city had its most intense rainfall for at least 24 years. The Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BM…

Why Conservatives Who Know Climate Science Is Real Won’t Speak Up

nymag.com - The Republican Party is the only major right-of-center party in the world that refuses to acknowledge the link between greenhouse-gas emissions and rising global temperatures. The major cause

Global Apathy Toward the Fires in Australia Is a Scary Portent for the Future

nymag.com - Right now, on the outskirts of a hyper modern first world megapolis, at the end of a year in which the public seemed finally to wake up to the dramatic threat from global warming, a climate disaster …

Watching the 2010s Become History

theatlantic.com - In the September 2012 issue, Ta-Nehisi Coates explored the irony of the racial dynamics of Obama’s presidency. “Obama governs a nation enlightened enough to send an African American to the White Hous…

Wars, Secrecy, And Lies

popularresistance.org - You know an American war is going poorly when the lies come swiftly, as with the Afghan War, or when it’s hidden under a cloak of secrecy, which is also increasingly true of the Afghan War. This is n…

Privatization is resurrecting feudalism

intrepidreport.com - America is a country of scandals. The latest scandal is the Jewish multi-billionaire Mike Bloomberg’s use of prison labor call centers to spread the message of his presidential campaign. It seems to …

Sanctions are America’s go-to global weapon

intrepidreport.com - Nowadays the US wields the threat of sanctions or crippling tariffs over the heads of trusted allies that rail against toeing Washington’s line — a far cry from the message of ‘America First’ candida…

US Navy Chief Says Only ‘Regime Change’ in Iran Can Stop Country’s ‘Provocative Actions’ in Gulf - Global Research

globalresearch.ca - Russian and Chinese warships joined Iran’s Navy and Revolutionary Guards vessels on Friday for four days’ worth of maritime exercises in the Gulf of Oman and the northern Indian Ocean, simulating sea…

Capitalism – a Self Organizing Structure That Leads to Self Extinction - Resilience

resilience.org - I have often wondered why no matter how much effort well-intentioned people put into making needed changes in a system such as our economic model, the trajectory remains the same. Specifically, the p…

Air & Water Pollution Cause More Deaths Than War, Tobacco, Drugs Or Alcohol

popularresistance.org - Pollution—whether it comes from a car’s tailpipe, a coal-fired power plant, or a toxic waste dump—claimed more than eight million lives around the world in 2017, fully 15 percent of all deaths. That’…

Andreea Sterea: The Looming U.S. Water Crisis

voxpopulisphere.com - The climate is changing. Can our politics change, too? According to the World Economic Forum, the global water crisis is the fourth major threat of our civilization. In fact, studies warn that two-th…


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