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• Hacked emails released by WikiLeaks hint DNC sought to pave Clinton path to victory vs. Sanders

  By konigludwig on July 23, 2016 • ( 3 )

  

  A top Democratic Party official tried to use Bernie Sanders’s religious beliefs to hurt his presidential campaign, according to a startling internal email. The suggestion of undercutting Sanders based on religion is included in one of 19,252 hacked emails dumped… Read More ›

• Vast Purge in Turkey as Thousands Are Detained in Post-Coup Backlash

  By konigludwig on July 19, 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  ISTANBUL — The Turkish government’s crackdown after a military coup attempt widened into a sweeping purge on Monday, cutting a swath through the security services and reaching deeply into the government bureaucracy and political and business classes. The sheer numbers… Read More ›

• Death in Black and White

  By konigludwig on July 8, 2016 • ( 4 )

  

  By Michael Eric Dyson We, black America, are a nation of nearly 40 million souls inside a nation of more than 320 million people. And I fear now that it is clearer than ever that you, white America, will always… Read More ›

• US-backed Syrian alliance, Assad regime make gains against ‘Islamic State’

  By konigludwig on June 6, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  US-supported Syrian fighters as well as Russian-backed Syrian regime forces are homing in on the power center of “Islamic State.” The aim is to seize supply lines from Turkey and pave the way for the capture of Raqqa. A coalition… Read More ›

• Gold Mining Has Devastated The Peruvian Amazon

  By konigludwig on June 2, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  By Alejandro Davila Fragoso When Meraldo Umiña moved to the Madre De Dios region of Peru in 1983, the toxic gold rush that’s destroyed swaths of Amazon rainforest there was in its infancy. There were no laws regulating informal or… Read More ›

• Russia Is Trying to Wipe Out Crimea’s Tatars

  By konigludwig on May 20, 2016 • ( 3 )

  

  By Christina M. Paschyn On April 26, Russia banned the Crimean Tatars’ legislature, the Mejlis, calling it an extremist organization. On May 12, the authorities arrested several Tatars, including Ilmi Umerov, deputy chairman of the Mejlis. Activists say that more… Read More ›

• Russia’s New Missile Means the Nuclear Arms Race Is Back On

  By konigludwig on May 12, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  Team Putin is talking up fearsome new hardware that could accelerate a nuclear contest not seen since the Cold War. Russia has a new nuclear missile — one that Zvezda, a Russian government-owned T.V. network, claimed can wipe out an… Read More ›

• In Aleppo, We Are Running Out of Coffins

  By konigludwig on May 5, 2016 • ( 6 )

  

  By Osama Abou el Ezz May ALEPPO, Syria — LAST week, Syrian or Russian jets bombed Al Quds hospital, in the eastern part of the divided city of Aleppo. At least 50 people lost their lives, and some 80 more… Read More ›

• A Mine vs. a Million Monarchs

  By konigludwig on May 1, 2016 • ( 2 )

  

  By Dan Fagin THE national tourism agency calls the Mexican mountain town of Angangueo a “Pueblo Mágico.” If so, it is a dark magic. In recent years, Angangueo’s 5,000 inhabitants have been cursed by calamities natural and manufactured. Snowstorms, mudslides… Read More ›

• Should our economies take the road less travelled?

  By konigludwig on April 18, 2016 • ( 3 )