Scientists on Tuesday offered a slender piece of good news aboutglobal warming, reporting that cities can be of surprising help in soaking up carbon dioxide (CO2), the principal greenhouse gas. Around four percent of the world’s land surface is defined as urbanised, a figure expected to surge as the planet’s human population rises from seven billion this year [...]
If you were opposed to TSA body scanners before, new studies show that you might have more to worry about than just employees taking a peek at what’s beneath your blouse. After what Electronic Privacy Information Center Executive (EPIC) Director Marc Rotenberg calls a “cluster” of cases of cancer among TSA workers at Boston’s Logan [...]
Washington is ignoring its own intelligence because it is hell-bent on finding nuclear weapons that do not exist, Pulitzer-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh told RT. America’s eye on Iran has a worrying echo of what happened over Iraq, in the view of Hersh. He accuses the Obama administration of letting fear not facts dictate a [...]
In this part of the world, carrying tragic dates around in your head is kind of like breathing: you do it automatically, without thinking. This time of year, for Palestinians, June 5 marks the 44th anniversary of their occupation by Israel. June 6, in the evening, evokes the darkness when Ramallah fell, and finally people [...]
[ Author : Larbi Sadiki ] The idea of democratisation planted in Egyptian minds is beyond containment, yet Mubarak continues to resist. The realist terminology of the ‘domino effect’ does not capture the agency that Arabs are today assuming to unseat Arab hegemons, from Cairo to Sana’a. This agency is unshackling itself from a threefold [...]
[ Author: Chris Arsenault ] Accused of killing 73 in an airline bombing, Luis Posada Carriles charged with immigration violations, not terrorism. Margarita Morales Fernandez couldn’t be in court to see the former CIA agent who allegedly killed her father and 72 others aboard a Cuban airplane in one of the world’s worst airline attacks [...]
Author : Mya Guarnieri There was that jarring week in December – a protest against Arab-Jewish couples, a south Tel Aviv march and demonstration against migrant workers and African asylum seekers, the arrest of Jewish teenagers accused of beating Palestinians and the expulsion of five Arab men from their home in south Tel Aviv. It [...]
Statistics and soldiers testimonies reveal a harrowing epidemic of sexual assault in the US military. [ Written By Dahr Jamail ] Sexual assault within the ranks of the military is not a new problem. It is a systemic problem that has necessitated that the military conduct its own annual reporting on the crisis. A 2003 [...]
The intent of flooding 70 percent of world cocoa supplier of (GMO) genetically modified hybrids of cocoa tree is a collaboration of IBM, USDA and Mars to accelerate this process. With a major funding U.S. chocolate manufacturer Mars, a partnership consisting of researchers based at the Agricultural Research Service and the United States Department of Agriculture [...]
Here is the story of Ehtesham Qutub in his own words how he was detained and tortured for two and half months by the Mumbai Anti-Terrorism Squad during the 7/11 blast investigations. He is resident of 202, Safiya Manzil, Naya Nagar, Mira Road (E), Distt. Thane, Maharashtra – 401107. He is currently lodged in a [...]
