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Archives for September 2015

Bashar al-Assad
UN:  al-Assad, ISIL, al-Qaeda committing Mass Atrocities, Endangering Int'l Security

UN: al-Assad, ISIL, al-Qaeda committing Mass Atrocities, Endangering Int’l Security

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UN News Centre | ( Office of the High Commission for Human Rights) – – Mass atrocities by Government forces and non-State armed groups continue to take place in Syria, causing immeasurable suffering to civilians and contributing to a spillover of violence affecting international peace and stability, a United Nations-appointed panel said today. The Independent […]

Republican Party
Trump is just as anti-Labor as the rest of the GOP

Trump is just as anti-Labor as the rest of the GOP

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By Donald Kaul | (Otherwords.org) | – – When it comes to the way he treats workers, the Donald is as Republican as capital gains and Richard Nixon. There are those who would have you believe that Donald Trump is an aberration among Republican presidential contenders — the black sheep uncle who shows up half-drunk […]

Foreign Policy
American Workers need a Raise, & the Iran Deal, and Peace

American Workers need a Raise, & the Iran Deal, and Peace

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By Michael Eisenscher | (Foreign Policy in Focus) | We’ll never rebuild this country if we keep wasting money on war. This Labor Day, like others before it, finds American workers squeezed on many fronts. Inequality is rising, union membership is dwindling, and wages aren’t keeping up with job growth. Naturally, addressing all those challenges […]

Displaced and Refugees
Netanyahu: Israel Not To Be 'Submerged' by Syrian Refugees

Netanyahu: Israel Not To Be ‘Submerged’ by Syrian Refugees

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By IMEMC News | – – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, on Sunday, he would not allow Israel to be “submerged” by refugees after calls for Israel to take in those fleeing Syria’s war. Speaking at the weekly cabinet meeting, Netanyahu also announced the start of construction of a fence along Israel’s border with […]

American Jews
Whether Jewish Refugees in '30s or Syrians today, USA Falls Short of own Ideals

Whether Jewish Refugees in ’30s or Syrians today, USA Falls Short of own Ideals

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By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Germany, a country of 80 million, will take in 800,000 refugees this year, many of them Syrians. That is 1 percent of their population. It would be like the USA taking in 3 million refugees in one year. The US takes in 70,000 refugees a year. […]

African-Americans
Can Bernie Sanders become the Frontrunner coming out of Labor Day Weekend?

Can Bernie Sanders become the Frontrunner coming out of Labor Day Weekend?

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Ed Schultz | The Ed Show | (Video Interview) | – – “Presidential Candidate and Senator Bernie Sanders, I-VT, joins Ed Schultz to discuss a wide range of issues including why his message is resonating with Democrats, how he responds to those who say he can’t win, getting respect from the media, and the narrative […]

Displaced and Refugees
Why some European countries do more than others to help refugees

Why some European countries do more than others to help refugees

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By Tim Hatton | (The Conversation) | – – Not since World War II has Europe faced a refugee crisis comparable with the situation unfolding at its borders at the moment. The European response has been, to put it mildly, ambivalent. On one hand there has been a mass outpouring of sympathy in the media […]

Human Rights
Netanyahu Arrest Petition Hits 100,000

Netanyahu Arrest Petition Hits 100,000

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By IMEMC News | – – A petition to the UK government and parliament requesting that the government arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “for war crimes when he arrives in London,” reached its target Saturday afternoon, with 100,341 signatures. The petition calls for the arrest of Netanyahu on the grounds of alleged war-crimescommittedby Israel […]

Authoritarianism
Those forced to Europe are mostly Regime Change Refugees

Those forced to Europe are mostly Regime Change Refugees

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By Thalif Deen | ( Inter Press Service) | – – UNITED NATIONS (IPS) – The military conflicts and political instability driving hundreds of thousands of refugees into Europe were triggered largely by U.S. and Western military interventions for regime change – specifically in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Syria (a regime change in-the-making). The United […]

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