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US Uses Migrant Children as ‘Bait’ to Catch Sponsors: Lawsuit
Some 10,000 migrant children being held in Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) shelters are being denied due process rights as asylum seekers, the lawsuit argues. […]
Not with a Bang but a Whimper: Last Village of ISIL “Caliphate” falls to Syrian Kurds
Beirut (AFP) – Kurdish-led fighters overran the last village held by the Islamic State group in Syria on Wednesday, confining its once vast cross-border “caliphate” […]
With World on Precipice of Climate Catastrophe, US CO2 Emissions Skyrocketed in 2018
By Abrahm Lustgarten | – ( ProPublica) – A report by a private research company found that U.S. emissions, which amount to one-sixth of the […]
Behold the Child: US is Complicit in Thousands of Minor Deaths in Yemen & other Killing Fields
Children around the world are suffering, increasingly unsafe, and preyed upon in ever larger numbers
Health, Poverty, Conflict in Charts: Is the World Better off Today than ever before in History?
By Julius Probst | – Swedish academic Hans Rosling has identified a worrying trend: not only do many people across advanced economies have no idea […]
Copenhagen to be 1st Carbon Neutral City by 2025 and other Wind Energy Good News Stories
Some ten percent of greater Copenhagen’s households will be powered by wind turbines set up on 9 artificial islands off its coast
The West Has Islam Dangerously Wrong
Western accounts have discounted this emphasis that the Qur’an clearly has on peace-building, peace-making, striving against violent conflict.
Why do Protests Keep Happening in North Africa? It’s “al-Hogra”
It is used as a vehicle for social mobilization around overlapping rights such as the right to work, to education, to health, to housing
We’re on Course to Miss our “Best Chance” of Stopping Runaway Climate Change by 2020
An analysis by the World Resources Institute showed that current efforts to limit temperature increases are falling well short.