BEIRUT (AP) — The Syrian government appeared to have fallen early Sunday in a stunning end to the 50-year rule of the Assad family after a lightning rebel offensive. The head of a Syrian opposition war monitor said President Bashar… Read More ›
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Israel Has Formed a Task Force to Carry Out Covert Campaigns at US Universities
By William I. Robinson As worldwide protest escalates over Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, academic freedom and free speech are under all-out attack on university campuses in the United States, not just from university administrations and pro-Israeli groups, but… Read More ›
Putin Critic Navalny Arrested by Russian Authorities, Calls for Protests
After returning from Germany, where he had spent five months receiving treatment for poisoning with a Soviet-era chemical weapon, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was arrested by Russian authorities when his flight was diverted to Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport on January… Read More ›
Fire on Ice: Arctic wildfires are the new symptom of a warming planet
By Aparna Nathan Last summer, satellite cameras captured a strange image: a shroud of smoke hovering over the Arctic. But beneath these still, swirling clouds, towers of flames punctuated the bleak expanses. In short, the Arctic was on fire. The… Read More ›
Facebook bans Myanmar army chief Min Aung Hlaing over Rohingya in unprecedented move
Just hours after UN officials called for Myanmar army leaders to be tried for genocide, Facebook blocked the accounts of army chief Min Aung Hlaing and other top brass. The online network wields immense power in Myanmar. In order to… Read More ›
The world’s largest solar farm rises in the remote Egyptian desert
By Rachel Scheier In 1913 on the outskirts of Cairo, an inventor from Philadelphia named Frank Shuman built the world’s first solar thermal power station, using the abundant Egyptian sunshine to pump 6,000 gallons of water a minute from the… Read More ›
Red Hot Planet
Red-hot planet: All-time heat records have been set all over the world during the week From the normally mild summer climes of Ireland, Scotland and Canada to the scorching Middle East, numerous locations in the Northern Hemisphere have witnessed their… Read More ›
Erdogan’s Win Paves the Road Toward Autocracy
With Erdogan’s reelection, Turkey faces a future as a purely autocratic state, persecuting political rivals and settling scores With more than 90 percent of the votes counted Sunday night, one could predict with a great deal of certainty that Recep… Read More ›
Victims of Torture File Criminal Complaint Against Assad Regime in Austrian Courts
Victims of torture by the Assad regime have filed criminal complaint against Assad in law courts in the Austrian capital of Vienna, citing the arbitrary arrests and torture of hundreds of thousands of civilians. The victims accused the Assad regime’s… Read More ›
Ahed Tamimi Has Become the Symbol of a New Generation of Palestinian Resistance
It would be far better, however, if she could just be a child. By Ben Ehrenreich Ahed Tamimi was 11 when I met her, a little blond slip of a thing, her hair almost bigger than she was. I remember… Read More ›
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