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• America’s Failure — and Russia and Iran’s Success — in Syria’s Cataclysmic Civil War

  By konigludwig on January 13, 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  By John Judis Joshua Landis is head of the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Oklahoma and publishes the influential blog “Syria Comment.” He is, perhaps, the nation’s foremost expert on Syria. He has been consistently right… Read More ›

• China’s Smog Cancels Hundreds of Flights, Closes Highways

  By konigludwig on January 1, 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  BEIJING —Heavy smog in northern China on Sunday caused hundreds of flights to be canceled and highways to shut, disrupting the first day of the new year holiday. Large parts of the north were hit by hazardous smog in mid-December,… Read More ›

• Norway reprieves 32 of 47 wolves earmarked for cull

  By konigludwig on December 21, 2016 • ( 6 )

  

  Under Norway’s endangered predator laws, only 15 lone wolves proved to pose a threat to livestock The Norwegian government has issued a last-minute reprieve for 32 of the 47 wolves that had been earmarked for a cull to protect sheep… Read More ›

• America Must Recognize Palestine

  By konigludwig on November 29, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  President Jimmy Carter ATLANTA — We do not yet know the policy of the next administration toward Israel and Palestine, but we do know the policy of this administration. It has been President Obama’s aim to support a negotiated end… Read More ›

• Escape from Turkey’s parallel reality

  By konigludwig on October 14, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  “As a law-abiding citizen, I knew I had done nothing wrong…” By Sevgi Akarçeşme As I stood in the passport line at the airport in Istanbul on the night of March 6, ready to leave Turkey for an indefinite period… Read More ›

• The Cobalt Pipeline

  By konigludwig on October 3, 2016 • ( 4 )

  

  Tracing the path from deadly hand-dug mines in Congo to consumers’ phones and laptops By Todd C. Frankel The sun was rising over one of the richest mineral deposits on Earth, in one of the poorest countries, as Sidiki Mayamba… Read More ›

• Soldiers of the Revolution

  By konigludwig on September 9, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  A Brief History of Iran’s IRGC By Afshon Ostovar In August, news emerged that Russia had begun to use Iran’s Shahid Nojeh Air Base to stage bombing raids on northern Syria. For those familiar with the region, this was a shocking… Read More ›

• One Star Over, a Planet That Might Be Another Earth

  By konigludwig on August 25, 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  Another Earth could be circling the star right next door to us. Astronomers announced on Wednesday that they had detected a planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, the closest neighbor to our solar system. Intriguingly, the planet is in the star’s “Goldilocks… Read More ›

• Why Is Louisiana Flooding So Badly, And How Can We Prepare For It Next Time?

  By konigludwig on August 20, 2016 • ( 2 )

  

  Setting an unprecedented precedent By Mary Beth Griggs What Happened In Louisiana? Barry Keim, Louisiana State Climatologist and a professor of climatology, can trace the storm back to August 3, when it formed just off the coast of Florida, a… Read More ›

• Syria: Aleppo has become a ‘new Srebrenica’

  By konigludwig on August 4, 2016 • ( 6 )

  

  Inhabitants right to see indifference to their destruction as a betrayal  By Una Mullally ‘In the 1990s, we said never again,” a UN official recalls. “Aleppo is the new Srebrenica.” After four years of bombardment by government forces, the siege… Read More ›