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Palestinians Create Pact With Syrian Gov’t To Fight ISIS In Yarmouk Camp

Fighting rages on as leader of Palestinian factions claim they have made significant gains against Islamic State militia.

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Haaretz: Heavy fighting erupted on Friday in the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in the Syrian capital Damascus, pitting a united Palestinian force against the Islamic State militia, activists reported. Yarmouk has been under a government-imposed blockade since 2013, when rebel forces gained a foothold in the camp, strategically located on the

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Turning Hemp Fibers Into Batteries: Another Way Hemp Could Save Our Planet

One approach researchers are taking to boost supercapacitors’ energy density is to design better electrodes. And hemp, some think, could be that better electrode.

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In this Oct. 5, 2013 photo, Colorado farmer Ryan Loflin harvests hemp on his farm in Springfield, Colo. Photo: P. Solomon Banda/AP This piece first appeared in The Hemp Connoisseur Magazine. Dr. David Mitlin, the head researcher of a group working on supercapacitors at the University of Alberta in Canada says that their project turning hemp

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Even AIPAC Objects To Netanyahu’s Congress Address

AIPAC prepared a detailed presentation that was given to Netanyahu with all the negative repercussions they believe would result from the controversial invitation to Congress and the cumulative damage.

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Ben Caspit for Al-Monitor: AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, is the Israeli government’s long arm at the center of gravity of American power in Washington. The second most powerful lobby in the United States, AIPAC has served every Israeli government, over dozens of years, with exceptional effectiveness. This efficacy is based

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Why Iran Believes ISIS Is A US Creation

“We believe that the West has been influential in the creation of ISIS for a number of reasons. First to engage Muslims against each other, to waste their energy and in this way Israel’s security would be guaranteed or at least enhanced,” says Ganji. “Secondly, an ugly, violent and homicidal face of Islam is presented to the world. And third, to create an inconvenience for Iran.”

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By Kay Armin Sergoie for Time Magazine .  Iran has taken a lead role in defending the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad and strengthening the Baghdad government in the war against the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS). But that doesn’t mean Iran views the United States as an ally in that war, even if they share a common enemy in

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Video: Emerges Showing Police Harshly Interrogating Girlfriend Of Man They Just Killed

A disturbing new video shows how police officers used aggressive interrogation techniques against the girlfriend of John Crawford just moments after they shot him dead inside a Walmart.

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Victims family files lawsuit against Cincinnati police CINCINNATI (AP) — The family of a black man fatally shot by a white police officer as he held an air rifle inside a Wal-Mart filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday charging negligence and violation of the man's civil rights. The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in Dayton against the

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ANALYSIS: Why Can The US Get Away With Torture?

From Human Rights Day to the release of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s long-awaited torture report, this week has seen human rights celebrated and proof of their undermining revealed. Why does the U.S. get to have it both ways?

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Under the statue of former U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower outside the U.S embassy in central London, a protester dressed as 'Guantanamo Bay prison detainee' in orange jumpsuit and a plastic bag on her head as a hood, participates in a play called 'Closing Down Torture Airlines' during a demonstration,  (AP/Lefteris Pitarakis) Editor's

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