The executive order includes no provision to reunite the 2,300 separated families and illegally proposes to detain children indefinitely. Caracas (TeleSur) – United States President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday after an international outcry over his immigrant family separation policy at the southern border. The event was reported as Trump ending family separations, […]
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At US Border, Children Still ‘crying and screaming’ for Mothers
El Paso (United States) (AFP) – Children separated from their parents at the US-Mexico border “cry and scream” for their mothers, reaching out for them through the chain-link pens where they are being held, a pediatrician who has visited several Texas processing centers said in an interview. Marsha Griffin, who has monitored conditions on the […]
Police Killings of African-Americans exact Mental Health Toll: The Lancet
Paris (AFP) – The disproportionately high rate at which unarmed black people die at the hands of police in the United States has a corrosive impact on the mental health of black Americans, researchers reported Friday. The frequency of these killings has been cited as symptomatic of deeply rooted racism, and is in any case […]
Not only Is Trump’s Refugee Policy Morally Wrong, it is Illegal in US and Int’l Law
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Family Separation Policy that Trump has “temporarily” set aside (in favor of indefinite detention of entire families) has in some ways obscured what is really going on in Trump’s refugee policy overall. In essence, the Trump administration is attempting gradually to abolish the acceptance by the US of asylees, […]
Look Deeper: Child Detention and the US’s Paramilitary Politics Abroad
Southwest Harbor, ME (Informed Comment) – Attorney General Sessions didn’t lose any sleep over those children forcibly separated from their parents. He maintained most of the asylum seekers will be denied because “many of them . . . like to make more money . . .” Unfortunately, however, when children are used as bargaining chips […]
Turkey: Social Media Activists Resist Authoritarian Pres. Erdogan in Run-Up to Elections
Essex (The Conversation) – Turkey will soon go to the polls for the fifth time in less than four years. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced them on the same day that parliament extended the national state of emergency for the seventh time since the botched coup attempt of July 2016. Erdoğan brought these elections forward […]
Are Police Tracking You Using Facial Recognition? (Video)
“AJ+ explores the risks and benefits of facial recognition software. We traveled to the Mexico-US border as Trump vows to complete a US biometric entry-exit system. In an AJ+ documentary series, Ahmed Shihab-Eldin investigates facial recognition at the border, meets men struggling with addiction at a gaming rehab, looks into the harassment women face online, […]
As Pentagon Encircles China, Does Military Conflict With Beijing Loom?
Northampton, MA (Tomdispatch.com ) – On May 30th, Secretary of Defense James Mattis announced a momentous shift in American global strategic policy. From now on, he decreed, the U.S. Pacific Command (PACOM), which oversees all U.S. military forces in Asia, will be called the Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM). The name change, Mattis explained, reflects “the increasing […]
Yemen’s Huthis vow to fight on after losing Hodeida airport to Saudi-Backed Coalition
Khokha (Yemen) (AFP) – Yemen’s Huthi rebels vowed to fight on after pro-government forces seized Hodeida airport from them on Wednesday, in a major step towards retaking the port city following a week-long battle. Rebel leader Abdulmalik al-Huthi called for reinforcements to repel the advance of the UAE-backed government forces, after ongoing fighting left nearly […]
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