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U.S. Strikes Islamic State Oil Fields in Quest to Defund It: But Will It Replace Oil with Fracking?

2014-09-27 05:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Truthdig: Sawt al-Iraq [Voice of Iraq] reports that during the past two days, Saudi, UAE and American fighter jets attacks small oil refineries originally built for Syria by Turkey, which had been run by ISIL in Deir Ezzor. The day before yesterday the allies struck 12 refineries that ISIL had been in control of, and from which it allegedly earned $2 mn a day. At the same time, Western strategy is to seek more Middle Eastern allies. Pressure is being put on a reluctant Turkey to step up and play an active...

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World leaders to gather at UN in shadow of Islamic State, Ebola crises

2014-09-21 18:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: World leaders gather in New York this week to tackle a host of crises: the violence Islamic State militants are wreaking in Iraq and Syria, the exponential spread of the deadly Ebola virus in Africa and deadlocked negotiations on Iran's nuclear program. There is little hope the 193-nation UN general assembly will achieve much in the annual five-day marathon of speeches. But on the sidelines, US officials plan to lobby allies for pledges of concrete military assistance to help defeat Islamic State,...

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