A fire has been burning for over a week in a garbage dump near Mumbai, India. The fire is so large that it can be seen from space and the smoke pervades the city. The problem is globally endemic: we are running out of space for our waste and need to figure out how to produce much, much less.
It seems as if the Syrian government is advancing against rebel positions near the city of Aleppo. If these reports are accurate, then it appears as if President Assad will be in a much stronger military position in the civil war. to the relief of his allies: Russia and Iran. But if true, it also means that the world should prepare for a significant increase in the number of refugees fleeing the country. Meanwhile, the peace negotiations in London have yielded promise of humanitarian assistance for Syria but absolutely no progress whatsoever in achieving some sort of settlement.
The Russians are accusing Turkey of making preparations for an incursion into Syria. An invasion seems to me to be highly unlikely, but the Turks have made it perfectly clear that they wish President Assad to be ousted from office. A more likely motivation for the Turks would be some sort of move to blunt the Kurdish successes against the Syrian government. Those successes have emboldened Iraqi Kurdish leader Masoud Barzani to push for an independence referendum by the Kurdish people, an outcome to which the Turks are adamantly opposed.
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