Posts Tagged ‘renew’

SYRIA: Jaish Al Islam Renew Attacks on Damascus from Terrorist Occupied Douma.

Smoke rises above Mleha yesterday in Eastern Ghouta. (Photo: Vanessa Beeley) Vanessa Beeley 21st Century Wire After ten days of  peace, mortars have returned to Damascus. A brief respite of around ten days of peace and security has been broken by the remaining Jaish Al Islam factions still embedded in Douma, the final pocket of […]

Seoul won’t rush to renew joint military drills with US as new intra-Korean summit solidifies

At a bilateral summit on Friday, Moon called on the Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to wait before resuming the drills, Yonhap reported, citing a government official. The drills have been paused for the duration of the Winter Olympics, as part of Seoul’s attempt to mend relations with Pyongyang. North Korea considers the drills a […]

Trump Administration Urges Congress To Renew Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)

By Aaron Kesel U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is urging Congress to “promptly” reauthorize section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) scheduled to expire at the end of this year. The Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Dan Coats also signed the letter, addressed to House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., House Minority Leader […]

US literary figures renew call for freedom for Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour

Prominent U.S. poets, writers, playwrights and publishers issued statements today in support of imprisoned Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour ahead of her upcoming trial verdict on October 17.  The statements calling for her freedom, and demanding that Israel drop all charges against Dareen, released by Jewish Voice for Peace and Adalah-NY, come just as the Israeli […]

Humanity is committing suicide through pollution: 12.6 MILLION avoidable deaths each year, WHO claims

(NaturalNews) The World Health Organization (WHO) is turning heads after releasing statistics on the number of deaths caused by pollution. In theory, all these deaths are preventable, completely avoidable if there were greater efforts to clean up home and work environments. Widespread use of lab-validated air and water purification systems could mitigate many […]

The migration crisis calls to mind the collapse of the Roman Empire

There is much the ancient world can teach us. One of the key lessons is that mass migration – motivated by war, societal collapse, and/or extreme poverty – is capable of destroying even the most powerful of empires. At its height the Roman Empire was so vast and so powerful it was run on the […]

Why the high fat, low carb diet may be ideal for most people

     Jeff Volek, Ph.D., and registered dietitian and professor in the Human Science Department at Ohio State University, has done enormous work in the field of high-fat, low-carbohydrate diets, investigating how it affects human health and athletic performance. Volek has published many scientific articles as well as several books, including The Art and Science of […]

Infrastructure ‪Pipeline Task Force‬ Meeting Shut Down

Print Friendly Frontline Residents Directly Impacted By Gas Infrastructure Shut Down the Final Meeting of Pennsylvania Governor Wolf’s Infrastructure Task Force Seven Arrested from “People’s Task Force” Residents impacted by fracked gas infrastructure from across Pennsylvania came together today to shut down the final meeting of Governor Wolf’s Infrastructure Task Force. Exactly one year after members […]

Silence, please: noise and the disharmony of modern life

Graham Peebles writes: The worlds we inhabit are noisy places. The external environment – particularly cities, where over half the population now live, suffocates under a cacophony of competing sounds, from road and air traffic, to power tools, car alarms and neon lights. Moreover, for most of us, the internal, mental space in which we […]

Palestinian leaders renew attack on Tony Blair over Israel

Harriet Sherwood London Guardian Oct 2, 2011 The Palestinian leadership has stepped up its attack on Tony Blair in his role as envoy of the Middle East Quartet, saying that his “parroting” of Israeli demands casts doubt on his credibility. Nabil Shaath, a senior Palestinian official, confirmed that Palestinian leaders had discussed whether to make […]

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