Top Stories
Upon hearing the news that President Donald Trump is expected to phase out the CIA's covert Syrian program, established by his predecessor Barack Obama, to arm and train anti-government 'rebels' in Syria, how did you respond? ...[Read more]
0
Like
Save
){kind=link}
China has reached its 2020 solar power target three years ahead of schedule, after installed capacity topped well over its 105GW target. Europe has been urged to show similar ambition. ...[Read more]
0
Like
Save
){kind=link}
It’s simple maths. We are chopping down about 15 billion trees a year and planting about 9 billion. So there’s a net loss of 6 billion trees a year.
Hand planting trees is slow and expensive. To keep pace with the tractors and bulldozers clearing vast ...[Read more]
0
Like
Save
){kind=link}
The basic idea was to turn world opinion against Castro and possibly justify a U.S. military invasion by pinning the atrocities on him. The details of the sinister plot are included in a summary about Operation Mongoose, a 1960 covert op hatched by the CI ...[Read more]
0
Like
Save
){kind=link}
The research clearly shows that spanking is related to an increased likelihood of many poor health, social and developmental outcomes. These poor outcomes include mental health problems, substance use, suicide attempts and physical health conditions along ...[Read more]
0
Like
Save
){kind=link}
Eric Schmidt, the Executive Chairman of Google’s parent company Alphabet, says the company will “engineer” specific algorithms for RT and Sputnik to make their articles less prominent on the search engine’s news delivery services.
“We are workin ...[Read more]
0
Like
Save
){kind=link}
The 2020 presidential election is Senator Bernie Sanders race to win, according to a new survey of more than a dozen top Democratic strategists. The survey, conducted by The Hill, reveals a Democratic field crowded with old faces. Sanders, who will be ...[Read more]
0
Like
Save
){kind=link}
Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev was given a host of assurances that the NATO alliance would not expand past what was then the East German border in 1990 according to new declassified documents. ...[Read more]
0
Like
Save
){kind=link}
It emerged the other day that the Pentagon, following directives of the US Congress, launched a decade ago an off-the-books investigation into “unidentified aerial phenomena,” commonly referred to as UFOs, according to media reports. ...[Read more]
0
Like
Save
){kind=link}
A high-ranking United Nations official says more than a hundred civilians, including 54 at a crowded market and 14 members of one family in a farm, have lost their lives in Saudi airstrikes against residential areas across Yemen in the past 10 days, descr ...[Read more]
0
Like
Save
){kind=link}
The government will create a blacklist for local individuals and groups known to support the pro-Palestinian boycott movement against Israel.
Israel is ramping up its crackdown on the pro-Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement as the gover ...[Read more]
0
Like
Save
){kind=link}