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TEHRAN – Some 30 million hectares area of land across the country will undergo watershed management by the next two years, Mohammad-Hassan Nami, the head of the National Disaster Management Organization, has said. Source
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‘A watershed moment’: CA Senate passes historic bill to empower fast food workers
August 31st, 2022 
Awake Goy If Gov. Gavin Newsom signs it, one union leader said the measure “will be the most important piece of labor law to pass in decades.”
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No Comments »Budget for watershed management seen to jump fourfold
December 16th, 2021 Awake Goy Budget for watershed management seen to jump fourfold – Tehran%20Times TEHRAN- The national budget bill for the next Iranian calendar year 1401, which starts on March 21, 2022, has allocated 16 trillion rials (about $53 million), which is nearly fourfold of the budget for the current year. According to the bill, a plan has been […]
A Watershed Ruling On Homelessness
April 25th, 2021 Awake Goy Above photo: Nadia Carol/Creative Commons. California -On Tuesday, April 20, U.S. District Court Judge David Carter of the Central District of California issued a ruling that is likely to become a watershed moment in the United States’ response to homelessness. In March of last year, the LA Alliance for Human Rights and several individuals sued the City […]
In ‘watershed’ moment, B’Tselem labels Israel ‘apartheid regime’
January 14th, 2021 Awake Goy Israeli human rights group B’Tselem has labeled Israel as an ‘apartheid regime’ for the first time in the group’s 30 year history of documenting human rights violations in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip. The current reality in Israel and the oPt necessitates a change in […]
Netanyahu cancels watershed refugee deal with UN following rightwing criticism
April 3rd, 2018 Awake Goy Hours after announcing a watershed deal with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to relocate African asylum seekers in Israel to Western Europe and Canada, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reneged, saying he is “suspending implementation of the agreement,” throwing the fate of tens of thousands into uncertainty. Making his statement directly to […]
Posted in World News Tags: cancels, criticism, following, netanyahu!, refugee, rightwing, watershed No Comments »Video: Could UN Jerusalem vote be watershed moment?
December 23rd, 2017 Awake Goy Ali Abunimah From the Editors 22 December 2017 On Thursday I went on Al Jazeera English to talk about the overwhelming vote in the UN General Assembly earlier in the day to condemn the US decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. I told Al Jazeera that the vote was a “massive defeat for President […]
In “Watershed Moment” Merkel Says Germany Can No Longer Rely On America
May 29th, 2017 Awake Goy In “Watershed Moment” Merkel Says Germany Can No Longer Rely On America Zero Hedge May 29, 2017 One day after Donald Trump infuriated Angela Merkel and the rest of his G-7 peers, when the US president refused to endorse the PARIS climate treaty, prompting the German chancellor to say that the whole discussion about climate […]
Posted in World News, World Politics Tags: america, Germany, longer, merkel, moment, watershed No Comments »Australia’s Solution to the “Refugee Problem”: The “People Smuggling Industry”
October 29th, 2015 Awake Goy It surfaced back in June as a nasty reminder about how Canberra’s officials have been disposed to the issue known as the “refugee problem”. It came in the form of a refusal on the part of then Australian Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, to rule out a policy whereby people smugglers would be paid to “turn […]
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