Month: October 2020

Alternative Nobel Winners Bring Hope to 'Challenged Planet'

The 2015 Right Livelihood Awards, also known as the “alternative Nobels,” recognized individuals—including one country’s entire population—who presented solutions to human rights crises around the world. Those honors went to Canadian Inuit activist Sheila Watt-Cloutier; Ugandan LGBTI rights activist Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera; and Italian war surgeon Gino Strada. An honorary Right Livelihood Award also went…

By HearthstoneYarns October 7, 2020 0

Bullying Fueled Overly-Optimistic ISIS Intel, Analysts Charge

Intelligence reports that questioned the efficacy of U.S. airstrikes against Islamic State fighters were reportedly questioned, watered-down, or distorted, in order to present a more “glass half full” view of the bombing campaign, new reporting reveals. In an exclusive report published over the weekend, Daily Beast reporters Shane Harris and Nancy Youssef exposed the actual…

By HearthstoneYarns October 7, 2020 0

Joining Bernie and Trumping Obama, Clinton Comes Out Against Keystone XL

Joining political rival Bernie Sanders in his long-held opposition and distancing herself from the reluctance of the Obama administration to reject the project outright, Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton came out publicly against the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline for the first time on Tuesday. “I think it is imperative,” Clinton said during a campaign…

By HearthstoneYarns October 7, 2020 0

Flood of Western Weapons Fueling Unrest, Extremism Across Middle East

Western nations—led by the United States—are selling large quantities of weapons to governments in the Middle East and North Africa, providing little oversight for how these arms are used, and thereby fueling corruption and conflict in countries from Saudi Arabia to Egypt, a new report (pdf) from the watchdog organization Transparency International finds. The investigation…

By HearthstoneYarns October 7, 2020 0

Super Storms Keep Coming as Yemen and Oman Brace for Cyclone Chapala

Government authorities in war-torn Yemen as well as officials in neighboring Oman are urging people to evacuate coastal areas on Sunday as a very powerful—and extremely rare—cyclone readies to make landfall. #CycloneChapala Tweets Cyclone Chapala has now been categorized as the second-strongest tropical storm ever recorded in the Arabian Sea, fitting itself into a pattern…

By HearthstoneYarns October 7, 2020 0