Myanmar tragedy exposes the dirty underbelly of ‘green energy’

The birds no longer sing, and the herbs no longer grow. The fish no longer swim in rivers that have turned a murky brown. The animals do not roam, and the cows are sometimes found dead. The people in this northern Myanmar forest have lost a way of life that goes back generations. But if […]

In desperate effort to salvage Iran nuclear deal, will US cave to EU appeasement?

The European Union on Monday submitted a final nuclear arms text to Iran’s regime to temporarily curb Tehran’s ambitions to develop an atomic bomb in exchange for more than $100 billion in sanctions relief. The elements of the nuclear package disturb many arms controls experts because they believe that the E.U. is on a concessionary […]

Russia launches Iranian satellite into space amid fears it will be used to surveil Ukraine

Russia launched an Iranian satellite into space on Tuesday, just weeks after Moscow announced plans to abandon the International Space Station in the next two years. The launch, which lifted off from the Baikonur launch facility in Kazakhstan, placed the Khayyam satellite into orbit. Iran claims that the satellite, named after a 12th-century Persian scientist, […]

Renzi-Calenda a un passo dal sì: seggi e candidature gli ultimi scogli

Read More ROMA – L’accordo non è ancora fatto: i promessi partner del Terzo Polo, Matteo Renzi e Carlo Calenda, non si sbilanciano. Ci sono alcuni nodi da sciogliere, sia sul nome di Calenda nel simbolo, a cui il leader di Azione punta, ma anche sulle candidature. La spartizione dei collegi dovrebbe essere fifty-fifty, diversamente […]

Public services need another ?44bn by 2025 to cope with inflation, says IFS

Read More The government will need to spend an extra ?44bn over the next three years on public services to keep pace with rising inflation and avoid steep cuts, according to analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies. In a review of the rising costs facing the public sector, the IFS said that without further […]