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emschaeffer

Why Does Scotland Want Independence? It's Culture vs. Economics - 0 views

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Europe Social Political Economic

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    If you had told someone in 2012 that in just two years the eurozone would remain bonded together but the United Kingdom might not, they would have thought you insane. But here we are. It's been a good three centuries, but now Scotland may want out of the United Kingdom.
csmith2017

BBC News - Arab states back US push against Islamic state - 0 views

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    Secretary of State John Kerry convinced 10 Arab countries to help in the fight against ISIS. They have promised to stop sending troops and supplies to ISIS and to contribute soldiers, weapons, and intel.
csmith2017

Rights group accuses Israel of war crimes over Gaza school raids | Al Jazeera America - 0 views

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  • csmith2017 on 11 Sep 14
     
    Israeli missile strikes in Gaza have been reported as war crimes. Three strikes were apparently not aimed at any military targets, but at refugee camps in school. These three strikes killed 45 people,
allypeterka

The Iraq-ISIS Conflict in Maps, Photos and Video - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria controls territory greater than many countries and now rivals Al Qaeda as the world’s most powerful jihadist group
  • The United Nations estimates that militants with the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria have forced nearly 180,000 families — or more than a million people — from their homes in Iraq
wmaley

ISIS mass execution survivor: "I didn't want to make a sound" - CBS News - 0 views

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execution ISIS control kurds war trapped middle East

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  • The U.S. airstrikes in Iraq that began a month ago saved thousands of refugees
  • Mount Sinjar
  • topped the ISIS advance on the Kurdish capital of Erbil.
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  • with its own military called the Peshmerga
  • Kurdistan
  • Kirkuk is the gateway to Iraq's oil fields.
  • the American air campaign means ISIS can't mass its forces or move with any speed.
  • Thanks to the U.S. airstrikes, the Peshmerga are now on the offensive
  • moving toward Mosul which is an occupied city of more than a million and a half people.
  • Mosul is like a big prison with limited water and gas,"
  • Electricity only shows up once every two days.
  • shortage of medicine.
  • "They control life, clothing, everything in a very harsh way, very strict and very strict punishments," he said.
    • wmaley
      wmaley on 11 Sep 14
       
      they want to instill fear in other people
  • posting those punishments online
  • "When I was hit, I didn't want to make a sound because anyone who made a noise, they'd come over and shoot them in the head," he said.
  • The Kurds are asking the White House for tanks and artillery, to break lines like this.
    • wmaley
      wmaley on 11 Sep 14
       
      will the long commitment be worth it end the end, or should the government strategize another solution?
  • War is like a bridge - once you're on it, you can't get off until you see it through.
andie324

Afghanistan accuses US of killing civilians in airstrike | Al Jazeera America - 0 views

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Middle East The Americas Interactions

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  • who has often criticized the conduct of NATO forces
  • id 14 people died
  • and another 13 were wounded.
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  • At least 14 people, mostly civilians, have been killed in a U.S. airstrike in Afghanistan, officials said Wednesday, sparking condemnation from President Hamid Karzai, who has often criticized the conduct of NATO forces.
    • andie324
      andie324 on 11 Sep 14
       
      Why did the US deploy an airstrike? What was the purpose? Will Afghanistan retaliate? 
  • Civilian casualties in the U.S.-led military coalition’s war against the Taliban have been one of the most contentious issues in the 13-year combat campaign that will end by December. NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) made no immediate comment on Tuesday's airstrike, but it often stresses avoiding civilian casualties.
    • andie324
      andie324 on 11 Sep 14
       
      The airstrikes by the US in Afghanistan were acts of offense to fight against the Taliban, who are currently in control.
  • "Four of our villagers were on their way back home from work when airplanes bombed them," he told AFP. "When people went to the area to collect their bodies or take the wounded people to hospital, we were bombed again. Dozens of people, including women and children were killed, or wounded."
    • andie324
      andie324 on 11 Sep 14
       
      Innocent civilians and villagers in Afghanistan are being killed by the airstrikes. 
steven_butz

Family Room for Relatives of 9/11 Victims Is Recreated in Albany - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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Americas Cultural

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  • Family Room for Relatives of 9/11 Victims Is Recreated in Albany
  • “What tower? What floor? That was the way other people saw our loved ones,”
  • “It was adamantly not how we wanted to define our loved ones.
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  • the mourning has never ended.
  • The Family Room opened in April 2002 in space donated by Brookfield Office Properties, the owners of 1 Liberty Plaza, a 54-story skyscraper across Church Street from the trade center site.
  • replaced this summer by a new private gathering space in the National September 11 Memorial Museum pavilion
  • “We don’t want to have anything in our collection that a donor doesn’t want us to have.”
  • I feel it’s time for people to see our pain, our anguish, our love and our strength; to experience all that we felt and feel about our loved ones, in its purest and most uninhibited form.
  • 300 cubic feet
andie324

Most Russian Forces Now Out of Ukraine, Kiev Says - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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Europe Political

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  • the bulk of Russian forces had withdrawn from Ukrainian territory,
    • andie324
      andie324 on 10 Sep 14
       
      Russian forces have left Ukraine.
  • Mr. Poroshenko appeared to be trying to create a sense of momentum around the peace process, even though a final outcome remains the subject of arduous negotiations. The very law he discussed, for example, has been the source of widely different interpretations.
    • andie324
      andie324 on 10 Sep 14
       
      The truce between Russia and Ukraine is not set in stone yet. There is still potential for open conflict.
  • She also stressed that the path to solving the Ukraine crisis would be “long and rocky.”
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  • Mr. Poroshenko, who is due to meet with President Obama in Washington on Sept. 18, also said he would introduce a law as early as next week that would grant parts of the breakaway regions of Donetsk and Luhansk temporary self-rule.
    • andie324
      andie324 on 10 Sep 14
       
      Sections of Ukraine want to be self-ruled as individual states. 
mwhitney2017

Release of iPhone 6 Delayed in China - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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Asia Political

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  • fastest-growing markets
  • delayed
  • Sept. 19, when sales start elsewhere
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  • told China’s three big state-owned mobile service providers
  • did not explain the delay
  • phones had not received approval from Chinese regulators to go on sale
  • iPhone could represent a threat to China’s national security. The accusations were promptly rejected by Apple.
  • caught off-guard by the last-minute change of plans
  • there are some details which are not ready,”
  • China Mobile and China Unicom
  • website carried a statement saying only that the date of the iPhone 6’s availability would “be updated soon.”
  • began selling iPhones through China Mobile
  • Apple’s fastest-growing major market
  • $5.9 billion in greater China from April to June, a 28 percent increase from the same period a year earlier
  • 16 percent
  • Apple has never worked with any government agency from any country to create a back door in any of our products or services,
  • We have also never allowed access to our servers. And we never will. It’s something we feel very strongly about.
johntraurig2017

My Library - 0 views

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Middle East Interactions Political

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  • Use the “Save” option to bookmark a page. Bookmarking saves a link to the page in your online Diigo library, allowing you to easily access it later.
wmaley

The Grand Strategy Obama Needs - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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Russia and Ukraine Obama ISIS strategy solution sustainable conflict

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  • his effort this week to seem more muscular relies so much on a military solution that it risks a broader military entanglement.
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      wmaley on 10 Sep 14
       
      history is repeating itself
  • look back to 1956
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  • he Soviet Union invaded Hungary to crush a revolution while Britain and France, seeking to regain the Suez Canal, collaborated with Israel in a war against Egypt.
  • backed away from challenging the Soviet suppression of Hungary, then forced America’s European allies into an ignominious retreat from Egypt.
  • Eisenhower had a larger goal — not upsetting the delicate balance of power in the Cold War. Above all, he sought to avoid greater conflict, especially when he was trying to start arms control talks with Moscow.
    • wmaley
      wmaley on 10 Sep 14
       
      it was better in the long run to think ahead rather than solving the problem temporarily. 
  • American policy today sees the world in fragments
  • Both trace to political fragmentation in weak states living within unsettled borders. That leaves those states prone to internal dissent, and America’s recent minimalist posture has given these brewing troubles room to explode into crises.
  • rallying allies into coalitions that would ultimately share in managing peace and security. Which is where a sound strategy lies.
  • America’s allies will play that game, but only if they are sure we have a strategy and the staying power to see it through.
  • American grand strategy should identify these weak countries before they turn on themselves;
  • Today’s Russian menace and Islamic State horrors are threats to be sure, but largely because Ukraine, Syria, Iraq and other potential targets all contain within them ethnic groups and sects fighting over power and influence.
  • So Mr. Obama’s big challenge is to help weak states reconcile, compromise and unite, and thus deny enemies a chance to start civil wars.
johntraurig2017

Democrats Plan Bill Authorizing U.S. Military to Train Enemies of ISIS - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • Democrats Plan Bill Authorizing U.S. Military to Train Enemies of ISIS
  • WASHINGTON — Senate Democratic leaders on Wednesday prepared legislation to expressly authorize the United States military to train Syrian rebels to help battle the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, and House Republicans appeared ready to follow their lead.
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      johntraurig2017 on 10 Sep 14
       
      Only aerial attacks?
  • would not be American
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      johntraurig2017 on 10 Sep 14
       
      This is good. How many ground forces would we need? 
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  • Having occupied crucial sections of Syria over the past year and more recently seizing vast areas of Iraq, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria controls territory greater than many countries and now rivals Al Qaeda as the world’s most powerful jihadist group.
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      johntraurig2017 on 10 Sep 14
       
      This is crazy...and scary. ISIS is really powerful and a big threat. They control lots and lots of area. 
  • even as he expressed strong opposition to deploying American ground troops.
    • johntraurig2017
      johntraurig2017 on 10 Sep 14
       
      I think we should only do aerial attacks. I think it would be less dangerous than if we did ground attacks. 
  • The president is still wrestling with a series of challenges, including how to intervene without aiding President Bashar al-Assad, and how to enlist potentially reluctant partners like Turkey and Saudi Arabia.
    • johntraurig2017
      johntraurig2017 on 10 Sep 14
       
      We need to keep them out of it...that would be big. 
  • “The president has now declared that defeating ISIL is his objective,” he said. “That’s a good start. But Americans don’t want a lecture. They want a plan — a credible, comprehensive plan to deal with this menace that clearly wants to harm us here at home, and that is only becoming stronger by the day.”
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      johntraurig2017 on 10 Sep 14
       
      Very interesting and relatable quote. 
  • Mr. Obama’s speech to the nation, on the eve of the 13th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks,
    • johntraurig2017
      johntraurig2017 on 10 Sep 14
       
      is it ironic that he is giving a speech one day before a group of terrorists attacked America? Or just coincidence? 
  • The harrowing images, captured on video and circulated around the world, have turned American public opinion in favor of military action against the militants, recent polls show, and appear to have moved a president who had long resisted military engagement in Syria. And the United States has conducted airstrikes against ISIS in Iraq.
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      johntraurig2017 on 10 Sep 14
       
      The videos are really clear and high definition...they want us to watch the videos and be scared. Propaganda.  
jack_hale

Israel Investigating Possible Gaza War Misconduct - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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  • Israel Investigating Possible Gaza War Misconduct
asmith2017

Democrats Plan Bill Authorizing U.S. Military to Train Enemies of ISIS - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    "United States"
ianscox

Kerry in Iraq backs government, says Baghdad a partner against Islamic State | Reuters - 0 views

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  • Kerry in Iraq backs government, says Baghdad a partner against Islamic State
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      ianscox on 10 Sep 14
       
      yis i luv digos
jack_hale

Emory hospital to treat American Ebola patient | www.ajc.com - 0 views

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  • mory hospital to treat American Ebola patient
  • e Associated Pr
  • is on the way to Atlanta for treatment.
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