March 14, 2016

That was the week that was

editor:	Gurmeet Singh

37 people were killed in Ankara as a pair of suicide bombers carried out a car-bombing in the middle of the city. Government officials and Prime Minister Erdogan have responded with a view to swift reprisals, and have stated a link from one of the attackers to the PKK. The officials told Reuters that evidence had been obtained that one of the bombers was a woman who joined the militant Kurdistan Workers' Party in 2013.

In Germany, the racist, xenophobic and insular Alternative Fuer Deutschland party made significant gains in regional elections, contested in 3 states. The party has vowed to halt the flow of refugees into the country, introduce more citizen rights in relation to access to weapons, and to increase the police presence on the streets.

The very American drama of presidential nomination race took another interesting turn this past week, when violence and protests broke out at Trump rallies across the nation. Trump later called the Black Lives Matter protestors who interrupted his rallies part of Bernie Sanders' electoral strategy, and then called Sanders a communist. Sanders and Clinton called Trump a pathological liar.

And in climate change news, global temperatures exceeded all expectations last month, with February 2016 being called the hottest February ever. It's a fair indication of the existence of climate change, so we can surmise when Trump and Co. deny it, they are indeed being pathological liars.