With increasing violence in Syria highlighted by the killing of the Defense elite on July 18, 2012 and a stalemated UN diplomatic effort, the question of the possibility of good faith negotiations between Bashar al-Assad and members of the Syrian oppositions is crucial.
In the Amazonian backcountry, tribes are challenging construction of the world's third-largest dam—by dismantling it.
Source: The Real News Network
A recent report found that one African American dies in an extrajudicial killing every 36 hours. What are the systemic factors at play?
Source: Al Jazeera
As drought takes its toll on US crops, we ask if it is time to reassess the global food market.
Source: The New York Times News Service/Truthout
In a significant expansion of the war on drugs, the United States has begun training an elite unit of counternarcotics police in Ghana and planning similar units in Nigeria and Kenya as part of an effort to combat the Latin American cartels that are increasingly using Africa to smuggle cocaine into Europe.
The growing American involvement in Africa follows an earlier escalation of antidrug efforts in Central America, according to documents, Congressional testimony and interviews with a range of officials at the State Department, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Pentagon.
Source: Rolling Stone
If the pictures of those towering wildfires in Colorado haven’t convinced you, or the size of your AC bill this summer, here are some hard numbers about climate change: June broke or tied 3,215 high-temperature records across the United States. That followed the warmest May on record for the Northern Hemisphere – the 327th consecutive month in which the temperature of the entire globe exceeded the 20th-century average, the odds of which occurring by simple chance were 3.7 x 10-99, a number considerably larger than the number of stars in the universe.
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