Andrea Germanos

With Putin And Obama Set To Meet, Can Dent Be Made In Syrian Suffering?

The geopolitics remain fraught, but face-to-face talks between U.S. and Russian leader could spell beginning of progress

Andrea Germanos
By Andrea Germanos
The White House has finally accepted repeated invitations from the Kremlin with President Obama and President Vladimir Putin now scheduled to meet on the sidelines of the United Nations general assembly next week. (Photograph: Evan Vucci/AP)

Could détente between Russia and the United States spell an end to the civil war in Syria? Despite a series of miscommunications over what the actual focus of their discussion may be, both the Kremlin and the White House have now confirmed that a face-to-face meeting between President Barack Obama and President Vladimir Putin has been

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Oil Slurry Spill on Mississippi River Illustrates Need to Move Beyond Fossil Fuel Economy

Coast Guard said up to 250,000 gallons of refining byproduct may have spilled into waterway.

Andrea Germanos
By Andrea Germanos
A barge heads down the Mississippi in Iowa. (Photo: Neal Wellons/flickr/cc)

The U.S. Coast Guard said Thursday that up to 250,000 gallons of oil slurry could have been spilled into the Mississippi River following a towboat collision near Columbus, Kentucky. The Coast Guard says the spill occurred at roughly 8 PM Wednesday when a boat crash caused a cargo tank on a barge to rupture and spill some of the refinery

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Global Response To People Fleeing Ravages Of War: ‘Callous Indifference,’ Humanitarian Failure

Boat tragedy in Libya, corpses of refugees in truck in Austria reminder of human cost of war, lack of humanitarian responses.

Andrea Germanos
By Andrea Germanos
Migrants wait to disembark from the Italian Navy vessel 'Bettica' in the harbor of Salerno, Italy, Tuesday, May 5, 2015. About 700 migrants, including children, were rescued in the Sicilian Strait while they were trying to cross. (AP Photo/Francesco Pecoraro)

It's a crisis of record proportions that is being met with global "callous indifference" and failed, dehumanizing responses, human rights experts say. The crisis, described as Europe's worst refugee crisis since World War Two, involves hundreds of thousands of people fleeing conflict, many from Syria, Afghanistan and Pakistan, trying to reach

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As Controversy Of New Force-Feeding Law Lingers, Israel Suspends Detention Of Palestinian Hunger Striker

“Administrative detention returns us to slavery, and therefore I refuse to be a slave to anyone. The truth is that I currently prefer hunger as long as freedom is the goal in the absence of law in Israeli courts. So, I found myself forced to fight this battle.”

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By Andrea Germanos

Israel's Supreme Court on Wednesday suspended the administrative detention of Palestinian hunger striker Mohammad Allan. Allan slipped into a coma last week after 60 days on hunger strike, and doctors say he has suffered brain damage. He awoke from the coma on Tuesday, and pledged to resume the hunger strike and refuse water if Israel did not

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New Report Finds ‘Strong Evidence’ Of Israeli War Crimes In Gaza

‘The obligation to take precautions to avoid the loss of civilian lives was completely neglected.’

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By Andrea Germanos
Screengrab from video below showing how the forensic evidence was compiled for the report.

Amnesty International says its new report provides "some of the most compelling evidence yet" that Israel committed war crimes during its attack on Gaza last summer. 'Black Friday': Carnage in Rafah during 2014 Israel/Gaza conflict states that findings indicate that Israeli forces acted in retaliatory manner, with disregard for civilian life,

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Video: Lindsey Graham Calls Code Pink Founder “Radical Islam’s Best Hope”

“If you’re war weary, don’t vote for me.”

Andrea Germanos
By Andrea Germanos

Presidential hopeful Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Wednesday told peace activist Medea Benjamin that people like her "make the world incredibly dangerous" after the CodePink co-founder said his foreign policy was a "prescription for endless war." Graham was discussing his foreign policy vision at an Atlantic Council event moderated by CNN's

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A Clean Energy Future Is Possible: A Message For The 4th Anniversary Of Fukushima

‘The Fukushima disaster shows us exactly why we cannot and should not try to rely on nuclear energy to solve the climate crisis.’

Andrea Germanos
By Andrea Germanos
Ringing the bell on climate change march.

"Ringing the bell on climate change." Photo: Light Brigading/flickr/cc Just ahead of the four-year anniversary of the Fukushima disaster, five organizations have issued a message that the only way to avert climate disaster is by embracing a clean energy future. It was March 11, 2011 when the Great East Japan earthquake caused

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