former title: Politics for the 99% – then under world-citizenship.org – encore en reconstruction
Logging Threatens One of Europe’s Last Virgin Forests – Published on Spiegel Online International, by Nils Klawitter, May 8, 2015 (Photo Gallery).
One of Europe’s most beautiful forest areas is disappearing piece by piece in Romania’s Carpathian Mountains. Some of the logging is illegal. The wood is then sold to make flooring or heating pellets that are sold in Germany and other countries. Continuer la lecture de « Clear-Cutting (in the Valcea region of the Carpathian Mountains) in Romania »
Published on Al-Ahram weekly online, by Salah Nasrawi, May 7, 2015.
As Iraq remains bogged down with the war against IS, another catastrophe could be on the horizon.
The Iraqi government is considering a set of measures to deal with the crushing financial crisis, which many fear could lead to economic collapse and accelerate the breakup of the divided and war-torn country. Continuer la lecture de « The looming Iraq (economic) disaster »
The flow of let go, 10.29 min, uploaded by Sjef Adriaansen, Sept 7, 2012 … and many other videos in autoplay.
Published on Spiegel Online International, by Maik Baumgärtner, Nikolaus Blome, Matthias Gebauer, Hubert Gude, Frank Hornig, Martin Knobbe, Veit Medick, Gordon Repinski, Sven Röbel, Marcel Rosenbach, Jörg Schindler, Fidelius Schmid, Holger Stark and Gerald Traufetter, May 4, 2015 (Photo Gallery).
Germany’s latest spying scandal has created the biggest crisis yet for the country’s foreign intelligence agency. The German government appears to have been aware of widespread US spying, possibly including economic espionage, against European targets and yet it did nothing to stop it … // Continuer la lecture de « America's Willing Helper: Intelligence Scandal Puts Merkel in Tight Place »