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‘Alarm Bells Ringing’: Global CO2 Levels Highest In 3 Million Years

Ahead of UN climate talks, a report warns of «severe ecological and economic disruptions» without more drastic moves to cut emissions.

Jessica Corbett
Por Jessica Corbett
Boaters pass through a channel as the sun set behind wind mills and an oil refinery, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014, in Corpus Christi, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Ahead of the COP23 climate negotiations in Bonn, Germany next week, an annual bulletin released on Monday revealed that last year, the average global concentration of carbon dioxide surged at a record-breaking pace to the highest level in approximately 3 million years, renewing scientists' concerns that more action is needed to reduce greenhouse

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Interview Of Former Qatar PM Confessing Role In Syrian War Goes Viral

The former prime minister’s comments, while very revealing, were intended as a defense and excuse of Qatar’s support for terrorism, and as a critique of the US and Saudi Arabia for essentially leaving Qatar “holding the bag” in terms of the war against Assad.

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Por ZeroHedge.com
Former Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Hamad bin Jassim Al Thani, speaks at a news conference with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in Doha, Qatar, on Saturday, June 22, 2013. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

A television interview of a top Qatari official confessing the truth behind the origins of the war in Syria is going viral across Arabic social media during the same week a leaked top-secret NSA document was published which confirms that the armed opposition in Syria was under the direct command of foreign governments from the early years of the

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The New York Times Acknowledges US Global Empire

In light of this systemic rational ignorance, we must be grateful when a prominent institution acknowledges how much the government intervenes around the world.

Sheldon Richman
Por Sheldon Richman
Abrams battle tanks from the US Army's 4th Infantry Division on rail cars as they arrive at the Gaiziunai railway station in Lithuania, Feb. 10, 2017.(AP/Mindaugas Kulbis)

Analysis -- One big advantage the war party has is the public’s ignorance about the activities of the far-flung American empire. Although frustrating, that ignorance is easy to understand and has been explained countless times by writers in the public choice tradition. Most people are too busy with their lives, families, and communities to pay the

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Catalan Leaders Face Possible Charges Of Rebellion, Sedition

Jaume Cuevillas, a lawyer representing former Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont, said the threat of charging his client with rebellion is “nonsense.”

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Por teleSUR
Catalan President Carles Puigdemont walks after his arrival inside the Catalan parliament in Barcelona, Spain, Friday, Oct. 27, 2017. Catalonia's parliament on Friday will resume debating its response to the Spanish government's plans to strip away its regional powers to halt it pushing toward independence.(AP Photo/ Emilio Morenatti)

Spain's Attorney General Jose Manuel Maza announced that top Catalan officials, including ousted President Carles Puigdemont, will be prosecuted for sedition following parliament's declaration of independence Friday, as Puigdemont traveled to Belgium where he is expected to make a statement later today. While Manuel Maza requested that they all

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In Bid To Tackle Pollution, China Starts Largest Shutdown Of Steel Factories In History

China is launching its first regional Environmental Protection Bureau to consolidate cuts in air pollution following party conference

Lauri Myllyvirta
Por Lauri Myllyvirta
A man walks past a coal-powered steel plant in Tianjin, China. (AP/Andy Wong)

Earlier this month and without much comment, dozens of huge steel mills in China stopped or curtailed their operations. In northern China cement plants are preparing to shut down entirely before Christmas. The measures are a part of an aggressive action plan that aims to cut wintertime particulate pollution by 15% year-on-year over the next five

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Iran Says Trump Pushed For Secret Face To Face Meeting

The meeting request was said to have been made a day after Trump gave a fiery speech before the UN assembly which included denouncing Iran as a state-sponsor of terror and a «corrupt dictatorship.»

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Trump Rouhani

The White House has denied reports that President Trump requested an unprecedented face-to-face meeting with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in September. On Sunday the Associated Press reported the claim of Iran's foreign ministry, initially issued through Iranian state television,

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