Would you teach your kids on the road
Source: BBC By Dave Seminara 8 November 2016 For travellers accustomed to picking up at the drop of a hat and jetting off to Rio or Riyadh without a care […]
Effects of news addiction
İBRAHIM ALTAY PublishedOctober 17, 2016 Illustration by Necmettin Asma – twitter.com/necmettinasma As we enter the third part of the debate surrounding the concept of news addiction, another perspective shows us that even the usage of the word addiction is not agreed upon, though negative aspects seem, regardless, to affect the […]
A Muslim Woman Is Documenting All The Strange And Wonderful Places Muslims Pray
Source: The Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla Associate Religion Editor Six years ago, Sana Ullah went up on a mountain to pray. The young Muslim woman, born and raised in South […]
Meet the Millennials Who Are Changing the World
Source: Time The pioneers are daring to cross boundaries, forge new paths, take their crafts to unexpected places—and also improve the world. These are TIME’s 2016 Next Generation Leaders 2016 […]
The Global Farm Land Grab in 2016: How Big, How Bad?
by GRAIN Staff, originally published by GRAIN | JUL 13, 2016 Eight years after releasing its first report on land grabbing, which put the issue on the international agenda, GRAIN publishes a new dataset documenting nearly 500 cases of land grabbing around the world. In October 2008, GRAIN published a […]
Countries Reach Landmark Deal to Limit Global Warming From Air Conditioners
Source: Time By Justin Worland More than 170 countries agreed early Saturday morning to limit emissions of key climate change-causing pollutants found in air conditioners, a significant step in the international effort to keep global warming from reaching catastrophic levels. The deal reached in Kigali, Rwanda, comes after years of wrangling […]
Leading Mideast into the future (actually: Leading the World into the future)
KLAUS SCHWAB | Published — Thursday 13 October 2016 Klaus Schwab New technologies are emerging so rapidly that societies in the Middle East are now having trouble coping with their impact. Around the globe, entire industries are being redefined and created from scratch, owing to ground-breaking developments in artificial intelligence, […]
The Western Media Is Dying and Here’s Why
Column: Politics Seymour Hersh has risked much over his decades of journalism. He is a true journalist who has been attacked, slandered, and shunned by all sides simply because he seems to resist taking any side. When he reported on US atrocities in Vietnam, he was first attacked and denounced […]
TEN COUNTRIES HOST MORE THAN HALF OF THE WORLD’S REFUGEES: AMNESTY
The rights group has criticized developed countries for not accepting enough refugees. BY JACK MOORE ON 10/4/16 AT 11:58 AM CLOSESyrian Refugees In Jordan Struggle To Go To School Just ten countries host more than half of the world’s refugees with wealthy nations showing a lack of responsibility in absorbing […]
The human right that keeps on giving
Sep 29,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Kailash Satyarthi; Nobel Laureate, 2014 I once met a boy working on a cocoa farm whose only dream was someday to taste the rich brown […]
The Rothschild-Owned Central Banks of the World
“Give me control over a nations currency, and I care not who makes its laws” – Baron M.A. Rothschild Afghanistan: Bank of Afghanistan Albania: Bank of Albania Algeria: Bank of Algeria Argentina: Central Bank of Argentina Armenia: Central Bank of Armenia Aruba: Central Bank of Aruba Australia: Reserve […]
Securing the UN’s future
Sep 11,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – KEVIN RUDD As the existing international order becomes more fragmented, strong global-governance institutions are crucial for addressing the world’s strategic, economic and sustainability challenges. And yet, rarely have our existing institutions — including, above all, the United Nations — been frailer. The UN is […]
What’s free in your country?
Source: BBC By Lindsey Galloway 12 September 2016 From mineral water to water slides, things that are free in some countries often cost in others, sometimes much to the surprise […]
Nuclear weapons in civil war zones
Sep 10,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – BENNETT RAMBERG The recent failed military coup in Turkey has produced instability, paranoia and a crackdown on the regime’s perceived opponents, including many journalists. Luckily, it did not end with rebel forces seizing some of the dozens of US nuclear weapons stored at Turkey’s […]
It’s sad but true that in colonial times, our government was better at responding to human rights abuses abroad than it is now
Those we trust to represent us will not take up the battle against injustice these days because they are now too involved in the infliction of this injustice, albeit by proxy Robert Fisk @indyvoices Friday 5 August 2016 Yemen children waving national flags at rally in support of the Houthi rebels on […]
Nearly 1 in 100 worldwide are now displaced from their homes
Source: Pew Research Center BY PHILLIP CONNOR More than 60 million people are displaced from their homes as of the end of 2015, thehighest number of displaced people since World War II, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). This group accounts for 0.8% of the world’s […]
Which countries still outlaw apostasy and blasphemy?
Source: Pew Research Center BY ANGELINA E. THEODOROU74 COMMENTS Apostasy and blasphemy may seem to many like artifacts of history. But in dozens of countries around the world, laws against […]
Earth Just Experienced The Hottest June Ever Recorded
Source: Huffington Post Dominique Mosbergen Reporter, The Huffington Post The heat wave continues. Last month was the hottest June ever recorded, according to both NASA and the National Oceanic and […]
The struggle to identify drowned migrants
THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA: A MASS GRAVE The struggle to identify drowned migrants By Stefania Summermatter JUN 20, 2016 – 11:00 A drawing of the October 3, 2013 tragedy by a Lampedusa school child. (AFP) Three years after the migrant boat tragedy in Lampedusa, in which 366 people drowned, relatives are […]