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HUMPHRIES: The Liberal Bully of the Week: The antiwar left

By Rusty Humphries

** FILE ** This undated file image attached in a statement released on Saturday, Aug. 30, 2014, on the Hanin Network website, a militant website, shows Fijian U.N. peacekeepers who were seized by The Nusra Front on Thursday, Aug. 28, 2014, in the Golan Heights in the buffer zone between Syria and Israel. Fiji confirmed Thursday that soldiers shown in a new video posted online are its 45 United Nations peacekeepers being held captive in Syria. (AP Photo/Hanin Network Website, File)

U.N.: 45 Fijian peacekeepers freed in Syria

By Ryan Lucas and Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

HUMPHRIES: Liberal Bully of the Week: The Antiwar Left

By Rusty Humphries

This undated image provided by NASA shows the ozone layer over the years, Sept. 17, 1979, top left, Oct. 7, 1989, top right, Oct. 9, 2006, lower left, and Oct. 1, 2010, lower right. Earth protective but fragile ozone layer is finally starting to rebound, says a United Nations panel of scientists. Scientists hail this as rare environmental good news, demonstrating that when the world comes together it can stop a brewing ecological crisis. (AP Photo/NASA)

Scientists say the ozone layer is recovering

By Seth Borenstein - Associated Press

Activists dressed as polar bears stage a protest at the U.N. Climate Summit in Copenhagen on Monday, Dec. 14, 2009, on behalf of humans who are being hit hard by climate change. (AP Photo/Heribert Proepper)

Activists plan NYC climate march before UN summit

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U.S. President Barack Obama addresses the 65th session of the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010 at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

SCHAEFER & KINGHAM: Congress should link foreign aid to U.N. General Assembly voting

By Brett Schaefer and Jay Kingham

**FILE** Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore is releasing a sequel to "An Inconvenient Truth," his 2006 Academy Award-winning documentary on climate change. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Pressing the climate hoax

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Philippine military chief Gen. Gregorio Pio Catapang answers questions from reporters about the situation of Filipino peacekeepers in Golan Heights, during a press conference at Camp Aguinaldo military headquarters in suburban Quezon city, Philippines on Sunday Aug. 31, 2014.Catapang said more than 70 Filipino peacekeepers have escaped from two areas in the Golan Heights that came under attack by Syrian rebels. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Filipino force defied U.N. commander in Golan crisis

By JIM GOMEZ - Associated Press

In this photo released by the Armed Forces of the Philippines Public Affairs Office, Philippine Military Chief Gen. Gregorio Catapang, center, reacts after learning about the safe repositioning of Filipino peacekeepers in Golan Heights as they monitor the situation with Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert Del Rosario, second left, Philippine National Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin, third from left seated, at Camp Aguinaldo military headquarters in suburban Quezon city, Philippines on Saturday, Aug. 30, 2014. Catapang said more than 70 Filipino peacekeepers have escaped from two areas in the Golan Heights that came under attack by Syrian rebels. (AP Photo/Armed Forces of the Philippines Public Affairs Office)

Philippine troops pull ‘greatest escape’ in Golan

By JIM GOMEZ and RYAN LUCAS - Associated Press

An armed group of men, not specified which group of rebels, gather at Syria's Quneitra border crossing between Syria and the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, Friday, Aug. 29, 2014. It was unclear if the men were connected to an armed group that, the United Nations said, detained more than 40 U.N. peacekeepers during fighting in Syria early Thursday. The peacekeepers were detained on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights during a &quot;period of increased fighting between armed elements and the Syrian Arab Armed Forces,&quot; the office of U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a statement. ( AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Al-Qaeda-linked Syrian rebels attack peacekeepers in Golan Heights

By Diaa Hadid and Oliver Teves - Associated Press

U.N. says Syria refugees top 3 million mark

By John Heilprin - Associated Press

President Barack Obama speaks the economy, Iraq, and Ukraine, Thursday, Aug. 28, 2014, in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, before convening a meeting with his national security team on the militant threat in Syria and Iraq. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Obama confesses: ‘We don’t have a strategy yet’ for dealing with Islamic State

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

White House press secretary Josh Earnest briefs reporters during the daily press briefing at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2014. Earnest started his briefing with a question on Syria. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

White House open to working on international climate deal without Congress

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

In this image made from undated video obtained by The Associated Press, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, a man believed to be Peter Theo Curtis, a U.S. citizen held hostage by an al-Qaida linked group in Syria, delivers a statement. The U.S. government said on Sunday, Aug. 24, 2014 that Curtis, who had been held hostage for about two years, had been released. (AP Photo)

American hostage Peter Theo Curtis freed in Syria

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Smoke rises as the al-Zafer apartment tower collapses following an Israeli air strike in Gaza City, in the northern Gaza Strip, Saturday, Aug. 23, 2014. Israeli aircraft fired two missiles at a 12-story apartment tower in downtown Gaza City on Saturday, collapsing the building, sending a huge fireball into the sky and wounding at least 22 people, including 11 children, witnesses and Palestinian officials said. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Israeli airstrike wounds 10, collapses apartment tower in central Gaza City

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** FILE ** In this image taken from video obtained from the Shaam News Network, posted on April 16, 2014, an anti-Bashar Assad activist group, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, children are seen receiving oxygen in Kfar Zeita, a rebel-held village in Hama province some 200 kilometers (125 miles) north of Damascus, Syria. An international human rights group says on the anniversary of the deadly chemical attack outside Damascus that “justice remains elusive” for the victims and their families. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network, File)

U.N.: death toll from Syrian civil war tops 191,000

By John Heilprin - Associated Press

A Palestinian man chants angry slogans as rescue workers search for victims under the rubble of a house destroyed in Israeli strikes in the Rafah refugee camp, Southern Gaza Strip, Thursday, Aug. 21, 2014. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Israel kills 3 Hamas military commanders in Gaza

By Karin Laub and Ian Deitch - Associated Press