John J Stremlau | December 19, 2016 | The Conversation US President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the US Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt, publicly questions the existence of climate change. He, and presumably Trump himself, opposes President Barack Obama’s environmental initiatives to limit greenhouse gases that cause global warming. US … [Read more...]
Archives for December 2016
Sisi, Trump agree to delay UN vote on Israeli settlements: Egyptian president’s office
Friday 23 Dec 2016 | Ahram Online Delay is to allow new US administration time to work on solution to Israel-Palestine conflict, says El-Sisi's office Egypt has agreed to postpone a UN Security Council resolution against Israeli settlements in order to give the US a chance to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the office of President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi said in a … [Read more...]
Israel warned Obama over UN vote, calling on Trump for help
MICHAEL WILNER | 12/23/2016 | Jerusalem Post The Obama administration intended to let the resolution, spearheaded by Egypt, survive a vote in the chamber. Egypt pulls anti-settlement resolution at last minute WASHINGTON -- The Israeli government asked President-elect Donald Trump's transition team to intervene before a vote scheduled for Thursday at the UN Security … [Read more...]
Mobile phones are transforming Africa, where they can get a signal
Dec 10th 2016 | ACCRA AND CAPE TOWN | The Economist DRIVE a few miles from the centre of Accra, the capital of Ghana, into the neat rows of houses that surround it and the paved roads disappear almost as quickly as the phone lines. Yet this has not dented the ambitions of Kwami Williams, a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) who is building a business … [Read more...]
Radio Erena Interview with Ato Keleta Kidane Part I & II
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A New Tool to Fight Genocide
John Prendergast and Brad Brooks-Rubin | December 15, 2016 | Foreign Affairs Why Anti-Money-Laundering Measures Could Be Game Changing It has been 65 years since the Genocide Convention, drafted in reaction to the Holocaust, first came into force, but the international response to mass atrocities remains largely ineffective. The usual actions—the provision of … [Read more...]
The Secret Life of Time
Alan Burdick | December 19 & 26, 2016 Issue | The New Yorker It may seem slippery and maddeningly abstract, but it’s also deeply intimate, infusing our every word and gesture. Some nights—more than I like, lately—I wake to the sound of the bedside clock. The room is dark, without detail, and it expands in such a way that it seems as if I’m outdoors, under an … [Read more...]
Is Donald Trump Mentally Ill? 3 Professors of Psychiatry Ask President Obama to conduct “a full medical and neuropsychiatric evaluation”
Richard Greene | 12/17/2016 | The Huffington Post I received this stunning letter to President Obama from a source, with written permission from Dr. Herman, Dr. Gartrell and Dr. Mosbacher, because the source knew that I had been interviewing Psychiatrists and Psychologists about Donald Trump’s alleged “Narcissistic Personality Disorder”. Virtually every mental … [Read more...]
Mugabe: Liberation hero turned despot
18 December 2016 | Business Day On Saturday, his ruling Zanu-PF party endorsed the 92-year-old leader as its candidate for the 2018 presidential election, bringing him closer to achieving his wish. From crushing political dissent to ushering in disastrous land reforms that saw the economy crumble, many accuse Mugabe of turning the regional breadbasket into a food … [Read more...]
Mother and Daughter. They escaped Islamic State. But their horror hasn’t ended.
Selam Gebrekidan | Dec. 14, 2016 | Reuters Islamic State in Libya kidnapped dozens of African migrants and turned them into sex slaves. But when the group lost ground, the women became a burden rather than a prize. SIRTE, Libya – One mild morning in October, when the roar of fighter jets over Sirte had died down and the crackle of gunfire had paused, Minya Mesmer … [Read more...]