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• Syria death toll now exceeds 200,000

  By konigludwig on December 26, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  Syria’s civil war has killed more than 200,000 people in less than four years, a monitoring group told AFP on Tuesday, adding that most were fighters from the two sides. “We have documented the killing of 202,354 people since March… Read More ›

• Syrian rebels prepare to defend ruined Aleppo as troops and militias close in

  By konigludwig on December 25, 2014 • ( 3 )

  

  By Martin Chulov in Aleppo in The Guardian The last road into rebel-held east Aleppo carves though a mile-wide paddock between an abandoned village and a looming ridgeline. Behind each of them Syrian troops advance slowly, hidden from view. Trucks,… Read More ›

• Funerals Begin for 141 Slain in Taliban Attack on Pakistan School

  By konigludwig on December 16, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Ayaz Gul and Hameedullah Khan contributed reporting from Pakistan for Voice of America The first funerals are being held for the victims of a Taliban school massacre in Pakistan on Tuesday that left at least 141 people dead, most of… Read More ›

• Product of Mexico: Harsh Harvest

  By konigludwig on December 13, 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  A Times reporter and photographer find that thousands of laborers at Mexico’s mega-farms endure harsh conditions and exploitation while supplying produce for American consumers. By Richard Marosi and Don Bartletti A four part series in the Los Angeles Times The… Read More ›

• The Keystone XL Pipeline Project Is Almost Certainly Dead

  By konigludwig on December 8, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  The Keystone XL Pipeline project is almost certainly dead. No, not because a bill that would have finally given the go-ahead to begin construction fell one vote short in the lame duck Senate last month. Sure, that halted the legislative… Read More ›

• No indictment in NYC police chokehold death of Eric Garner

  By konigludwig on December 3, 2014 • ( 9 )

  

  By David Ferguson in the Raw Story The Staten Island grand jury investigating the death of New York’s Eric Garner — an asthmatic man who died of a heart attack after being held in a police chokehold — has declined… Read More ›

• Was Michael Brown surrendering or advancing to attack Officer Darren Wilson?

  By konigludwig on November 30, 2014 • ( 22 )

  

  Just before Michael Brown was felled by police bullets, he turned to face the officer, Darren Wilson, who had been in pursuit. Then, at the climax of an incident that has gripped and divided the country, Brown started moving toward… Read More ›

• Illegitimate newborns murdered and discarded

  By konigludwig on November 24, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  In Pakistan, abortion is illegal, and so is adultery – creating a situation where hundreds of children born out of wedlock are secretly killed each year. Their bodies are, literally, thrown out with the garbage. A child has just been… Read More ›

• Shin Bet Chief: Mahmoud Abbas Isn’t Inciting Terror

  By konigludwig on November 18, 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  By J.J. Goldberg in The Jewish Daily Forward The director of Israel’s Shin Bet domestic security service, speaking in the wake of today’s massacre in a Jerusalem synagogue, told a Knesset committee that Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas “is not interested… Read More ›

• Jewish Defense League Meets Pastrami

  By konigludwig on November 9, 2014 • ( 5 )

  

  By Menachem Freedman When the news hit my Facebook feed that Ben and Izzy’s, a restaurant in Toronto, had been named “North America’s Top Kosher Deli,” I immediately packed my bags. Under the guise of visiting family, I began a… Read More ›