President Donald Trump recently signed a new executive order targeted squarely at sanctuary cities in the United States. “Sanctuary jurisdictions across the United States willfully violate Federal law in an attempt to shield aliens from removal from the United States. These jurisdictions have caused immeasurable harm to the American people and to the very fabric …
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Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov addresses the UN Security Council at the UN headquarters. Sept., 2015. Kevin Hagen / Press Association. All right reserved.In the past two years governments have negotiated a new international structure for sustainable development that seeks to integrate social, economic, and environmental matters in a new fashion. The process resulted in …
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Keep Calm and Don't bomb Syria. London protest, November 28, 2015. Demotix/ Peter Marshall. All rights reserved.The United States and Russia have decided long ago that Isis should be fought through air strikes. The United Kingdom has followed, and France, especially after the Paris carnage, is also going along. But bombing from the air is …
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The PAH in action: anti-eviction protest in Barcelona, 2013.Demotix/Paco Serinelli. All rights reservedRosemary Bechler (RB): I have been enjoying reading your book – Hope is a Promise: From the indignados to the rise of Podemos in Spain. Of course you were deeply involved throughout, but what was your particular interest in the rise of Podemos…? …
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Flickr/UN Geneva. Some rights reserved.The Geneva talks that began on 29 January aiming to end the civil war in Syria were suspended and will be re-opened on 14 March. By the looks of the current status on the ground internationally, the talks will be trapped in a dead-end street. It would be extremely wrong to put …
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Serena Williams’ social media presence has drawn an attentive crowd in the past two weeks as the tennis star issued a strong hint, then a confirmation that she was pregnant with she and fiancé Alexis Ohanian’s first child. Amid the congratulatory posts and post from those marveling at how she stole the Australian Open from her sister …
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Life in the Old City of Jerusalem. Demotix/Mahmoud illean. All rights reserved. Haftom Zarhum, a 29-year-old Eritrean, was lynched by Jewish Israelis simply because he looked different. After being shot in the legs, a mob circled him like hyenas over bleeding prey throwing a bench over his head chanting the unofficial Zionist’s anthem of hate: …
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California Rep. Maxine Waters has never been shy about sharing her feelings on President Donald Trump. She has been an outspoken opponent of the president’s since the day of his inauguration. Waters, who has served under five presidents and protested alongside those at the Women’s March, has already introduced a bill calling for an investigation into …
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This one sounds like the premise for a horror movie. And it ended up being about as accurate. But for one young Michigan woman the incident felt terrifyingly real and created a major bit of viral news. However, according to local police, it all turned out to be a “prank” gone horribly wrong. 19-year-old Ashley Hardacre posted a harrowing account …
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