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Are we really in a sixth mass extinction?
Nov 20, 2019 07:05The Earth is currently experiencing an extinction crisis largely due to the exploitation of the planet by people. But whether this constitutes a sixth mass extinction depends on whether today’s extinction rate is greater than the “normal” or “background” rate that occurs between mass extinctions.
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US is the source of, not solution to Syrian crisis
Nov 19, 2019 14:33Washington is the Villain of Peace, as is evident by its instigating of crises in various world countries, coupled with its hypocrisy for settlement, which actually means worsening of the situation.
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Mustafa prize for scientists of the Islamic World
Nov 19, 2019 14:21The “Mustafa Prize” initiated by the Islamic Republic of Iran in honour of the Prophet of Islam for scientists of the Islamic world held its 3rd biennial session last week in Tehran on the occasion of the Prophet’s blessed birth anniversary which is celebrated as Unit Week, spanning the two dates of the month of Rabi al-Awwal, believed to be the auspicious birthday – the 12th and the 17th.
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UNESCO should distance itself from fake Saudi charity
Nov 18, 2019 14:32Misk is used by MBS as propaganda to divert attention away from Riyadh’s spying operations, a crackdown on critics and the mass slaughter during its military operations in neighboring Yemen. UNESCO has worked with Misk since 2015 in a deal worth $5 million to the Paris-based UN agency.
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A blue dot barely visible from new silk roads
Nov 18, 2019 14:30US-Australia-Japan alternative to Belt and Road helps explain why the US sent a junior delegation to Thailand and why India opted out of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP.
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Attacking Palestine’s future
Nov 18, 2019 14:27“The Zionist regime’s 2014 attack on Gaza alone killed 60 teachers and injured 108 more while damaging 1,175 education facilities, totally destroying 29 of them. Unsurprisingly, students who have been driven from their homes, who are under constant direct or indirect threat of violence or whose teachers have been murdered are not ideally situated for learning.”
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Is OPEC stuck in a cycle of endless cuts?
Nov 18, 2019 12:15In the past few years, OPEC has been reducing its oil output under a pact with the support of Russia and some other non-OPEC nations to rebalance the oversupplied market.
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The case for de-dollarization
Nov 18, 2019 12:09The American currency is fast declining throughout the world, and this means eroding of the financial power of Washington in long run, as nations shift their trade transactions to other currencies.
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Why aren't people in the US rising up like those elsewhere in the world?
Nov 18, 2019 11:58Without a mass movement continually pushing and prodding for real change and holding politicians accountable—for their policies as well as their words—America's neoliberal rulers assume that they can safely ignore the concerns and interests of ordinary people.
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Israel uses veganism to gloss over Palestinian oppression
Nov 17, 2019 14:26The illegal Zionist entity, as part of its brutal policies against the sons of the soil has now resorted to another weird plot against the long-oppressed people to deprive them of their birthrights.