A blue moon is an additional full moon that appears in a subdivision of a year, either the third of four full moons in a season or, recently, a second full moon in a month of the common calendar. Full…
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Benghazi ‘person of interest’ killed by U.S. airstrike in Mosul, Iraq
WASHINGTON – A June 15 U.S. airstrike in Mosul, Iraq, killed a known Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant operative and organizational intermediary who was a person of interest in the Sept. 11, 2012, attack against U.S. personnel in…
Red Cross failures in Haiti constitute PR nightmare
by Justin Elliott | ProPublica Haitian journalists grilled an American Red Cross official Wednesday about the group’s Haiti program, but the official declined to provide any new details of how it spent nearly $500 million donated after the 2010 earthquake.…
Clinton is late to the party Pelosi, Sanders & Warren are leading
Democrats and labor unions have been working for months to stop a trade deal that would injure American workers, but Hillary Clinton has remained silent on the Trans-Pacific Partnership until today, when she said President Obama should ‘listen to’ Nancy Pelosi,…
America at war while most citizens largely unaware
U.S. and allied military forces have continued to attack Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant positions in Syria and Iraq, Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve officials reported this week. Few residents are behaving differently than they would if the…
Passing 400 ppm in atmospheric CO2 are causing real, significant changes in the Earth
There’s more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere now than there has been in millions of years. To understand what that means, we are reporting comments from a few scientists at NASA who describe what passing 400 parts per million (ppm) means to them.…
‘Incommunicado’ Forever: Gitmo Detainee’s Case Stalled For 2,477 Days And Counting
by Raymond Bonner | Special to ProPublica This story was co-published with Politico. Since being seized in a raid in Pakistan in 2002, Abu Zubaydah has had his life controlled by American officials, first at secret sites, where he was tortured, and…
Watch 135 Years of Global Warming in 30 Seconds
This iconic animation from NASA depicts how temperatures around the globe have warmed from 1880 to 2014. Note an acceleration of the temperature trend in the late 1970s as greenhouse gas emissions from energy production increased worldwide and clean air…
Carbon dioxide level passed 400 parts per million
For the first time since record keeping began, carbon dioxide levels have surpassed 400 parts per million (ppm) globally, according to newly published data for March that paints a troubling picture of a greenhouse gas rise with no signs of slowing down.…
Economists say trade pacts are raw deals for Americans
As debate heats up over the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership, a new paper from the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) says recent International Monetary Fund (IMF) research on gains from multilateral trade liberalization mean big sacrifices and small gains for consumers. This research shows…