Iran and Pakistan’s Peace Pipeline Conundrum Pakistan faces a difficult decision: penalties for failing to construct a gas pipeline to Iran, or U.S. sanctions for building it. 04/26/2024 - 11:39 am | View Link
Is an Anti-Iran Alliance Emerging in the Middle East? Lieutenant General Herzi Halevi, the Israel Defense Forces’ chief of staff, declared that Iran’s attack had “created new opportunities for cooperation in the Middle East.” The Institute for National ... 04/25/2024 - 10:28 pm | View Link
Hamas, Iran praise anti-Israel college protests in US: 'Leaders of the future' Columbia University announced a shift to hybrid classes due to the ongoing anti-Israel protest, prompting calls for the Biden administration to take away the school s federal funding and discipline ... 04/25/2024 - 6:15 am | View Link
Iran-Israel: Why It's Not Over Yet Israel's recent strike on central Iran was a warning shot for Tehran, tempered by a desire to close the recent spate of tit-for-tat attacks and by pressure from the U.S. Yet this may have only ended ... 04/24/2024 - 8:24 am | View Link
Pakistan and Iran vow to enhance efforts at a 'united front' against Afghanistan-based militants Neighbors Pakistan and Iran have pledged to enhance efforts at a “united front” against Afghanistan-based militants, saying their presence poses a serious threat to regional and global security ... 04/24/2024 - 5:54 am | View Link
Read our full cover story on Donald Trump here. You can also read the transcript of the interviews here and a full fact check here.
Donald Trump thinks that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been “rightfully” criticized for failing to stop Hamas’s murder of Israeli civilians on Oct. 7 and says there are “some very good people” who could take Netanyahu’s job.
[time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”]
In a wide-ranging interview with TIME, Trump was sharply critical of Netanyahu, a close ally during the former President’s term.
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
A new tax on fossil fuel companies based in the world’s richest countries could raise hundreds of billions of dollars to help the most vulnerable nations cope with the escalating climate crisis, according to a report.
The Climate Damages Tax report, published on Monday, calculates that an additional tax on fossil fuel majors based in the wealthiest Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries could raise $720 billion by the end of the decade.
The authors say a new extraction levy could boost the loss and damage fund to help vulnerable countries cope with the worst effects of climate breakdown that was agreed at the Cop28 summit in Dubai—a hard-won victory by developing countries that they hope will signal a commitment by developed, polluting nations to provide financial support for some of the destruction already under way.
This tax would unlock “billions of funding for those at the sharp end of the climate crisis” and expedite a “transition away from fossil fuels.”
David Hillman, the director of the Stamp Out Poverty campaign and co-author of the report, said it “demonstrates that the richest, most economically powerful countries, with the greatest historical responsibility for climate change, need look no further than their fossil fuel industries to collect tens of billions a year in extra income by taxing them far more rigorously.
Below are five video game recommendations from the journalist, comic-book writer, and video game narrative designer Evan Narcisse, with commentary in his own words. Read more about Narcisse and his worldview in Jamal Michel’s Mother Jones profile, “One Man’s Mission to Make Video Games a Little Less White.”
United Game Artists/Sega
Rez
United Game Artists (2002)
In this musical “rail shooter,” a hacker infiltrates a dysfunctional AI: “Throws deep existential questions at the player while immersing them in a thumping kaleidoscope experience inspired by raves and synesthesia.”
Starbreeze Studios/505 Games
Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
Starbreeze Studios (2013)
Siblings Naiee and Naia set out to save their sick father by collecting water from the Tree of Life: “A short little fairytale gem that perfectly demonstrates the expressive power that pressing a button can yield.”
Ubisoft
Assassin’s Creed: Freedom Cry
Ubisoft (2014)
A formerly enslaved African pirate joins Maroon freedom fighters to battle slavers in 1730s Saint-Domingue (Hispaniola): “This one really resonates with me deeply because it uses Black diasporic history and characters speaking the Kreyòl dialect I heard growing up to show the injustice that sparked the Haitian Revolution.”
Supergiant Games
Hades
Supergiant Games (2020)
Zagreus tries to bail on Hades and make it to Mt.