“What’s Up With Science?” We recently had a march for science — ok, most of us are in favor of science, but it looked like…
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The clock of our collective futures continues to tick toward midnight. How much of the population has any real idea about what is unfolding at…
One of the precipitating causes of the war in Syria (no pun intended) was the increasing scarcity of water in the Tigris-Euphrates Basin as a…
News of Planet of the Apes, with Meria. Yahoo hacked again;Russian hacking;
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said his country is moving towards allowing trade with Iran, Russia and China to be conducted in local rather than…
We are on the brink of seeing three of the world’s richest democracies be led by women. This is a moment to take stock, to…
Russia Finds - Shaming The U.S. Government Into Action Can Work Russia has now managed twice to shame the U.S. into action against Jihadis by…
Tehran — Public relations firms with no qualms about taking tainted petrodollars are experiencing a bonanza. Their latest project has been to persuade us that…
Beirut (AFP) - More than 300,000 people have been killed in the Syrian conflict since March 2011, a monitor said in a new toll Tuesday,…
The borders of the Islamic State's "caliphate" are shrinking fast. The group’s strongholds in Iraq and Syria are collapsing one by one. The U.S.-led war…
War-torn Syria’s water supplies are deteriorating fast, triggering migration and disease and stoking a pollution crisis in neighbouring Lebanon, hydrologists and humanitarian groups have warned.…
As the dust begins to settle from the failed Turkish coup, there appear to be some winners and losers, although predicting things in the Middle…