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Syria refugees must vacate Lebanese schools

By dog | Published: August 31, 2012

Syrians who sought refuge in schools in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley are being told they have to leave before the start of the school year next week. Lebanese officials have been handing out tents, but refugees have had to find somewhere to erect them. With more than 200000 refugees now registered in countries on Syria’s borders, [...]

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Syrian army helicopter crashes in Damascus

By dog | Published: August 27, 2012

Syrian rebels in the capital Damascus claimed on Monday to have shot down a military helicopter conducting attacks, a rare victory for the comparatively lightly armed insurgents struggling to bring down President Bashar al-Assad’s government. Syrian state television said only that a gunship had crashed in the Qaboun district. While the rebel victory will not [...]

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‘Iran nuclear talks expose IAEA as gang of thugs’

By dog | Published: August 24, 2012

Iran and the UN’s nuclear watchdog are set to resume talks later on Friday – more than two months after the previous round failed. Tehran insists it only wants peaceful energy, but the West remains suspicious of its nuclear ambitions. Hopes aren’t high for these negotiations either – while Iranian citizens continue to be hit [...]

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Breaking Down the Savings of Green Building Construction

By dog | Published: August 23, 2012

James T. Caldwell, Ph.D., a Director of UCGEC, Chair of its Green Building Task Force outlines the upfront savings from constructing green buildings and the accrued costs annually. Complete video available for free at fora.tv

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Kurt Andersen: The Real World Is Like a James Bond Movie

By dog | Published: August 23, 2012

In Kurt Andersen’s new novel True Believers, he posits the idea that today’s political landscape is beginning to resemble the fictional world of the James Bond canon. Complete with over-sized characters that seem unbelievable, Andersen argues that distinction between truth and fiction is starting to blur. Complete video available for free at fora.tv

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Civilians targeted over Eid holiday in Syria

By dog | Published: August 22, 2012

As Syrians observe Eid, the holiday marking the end of the month-long Ramadan fast, activists say 100 people died on the first day of the three-day-long festivities. Some of the heaviest bombardment took place north of the city of Aleppo, where locals say the government artillery and jets pounding opposition strongholds have instead hit the [...]

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Deadly Syria-linked clashes strike Lebanon’s Tripoli

By dog | Published: August 22, 2012

At least 12 people have been killed – as pro- and anti-Assad camps take aim at each other in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli. Old rivalries have been reignited and there is considerable tensions between the two communities – it’s being described as the worst since Lebanon’s civil war. Al Jazeera’s James Bays reports [...]

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Battle for Aleppo rages on

By dog | Published: August 20, 2012

Aleppo, Syria’s largest city, is under attack again – as fighting intensifies between rebels and government forces. The battle for Aleppo has been raging for weeks. And as the number of dead and injured grows, hospitals are desperately trying to cope. Al Jazeera’s James Bays reports.

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Rebels fight for strategic control of Aleppo airport

By dog | Published: August 20, 2012

Street battles are raging in the Syrian city of Aleppo, as rebels fight to take control of the airport. It would be a huge trophy if opposition forces manage to capture it . James Bays reports on the fight for Syria.

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NBC’s Olympic Coverage FAIL

By dog | Published: August 17, 2012

With terribly slow postings of video to their website, disallowed video embeds, delayed coverage of events, editing key sequences of certain sports to play into their dramatic narrative on TV and the cutting out of entire sequences from the opening and closing ceremonies, NBC left a lot of fans disappointed and even angry with their [...]

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‘Don’t expect West to condemn Syria terror attacks’

By dog | Published: August 15, 2012

The main Syrian rebel group say they’re behind a powerful blast that ripped through central Damascus. The explosion struck just outside a hotel being used by the UN observers’ mission and an RT crew. Independent journalist James Corbett believes rebels are unliklely to draw condemnation from some foreign countries for the latest attack in Damascus. [...]

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Al-Qaeda thrives as US helps to ‘flip’ Syria

By dog | Published: August 6, 2012

In Syria, the government’s reportedly massing tens of thousands of troops, and columns of tanks around the commercial capital, Aleppo. The government’s already pushed the last rebel forces from the capital, Damascus after 3 weeks of fighting there. As both sides rally reinforcements, large numbers of Al-Qaeda linked fighters are reportedly bolstering the opposition’s ranks. [...]

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