TeleSur | – – In a letter from the CEO, Starbucks told employees it would do everything possible to support affected workers. Starbucks Corp Chief Executive Officer Howard Schultz said on Sunday that the company planned to hire 10,000 refugees over five years in 75 countries, two days after U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive order […]
The Trump Effect: What will happen to 3 mn Syrian Refugees in Turkey?
By Katharine Jones and Esra Kaytaz | (The Conversation) | – – On Holocaust Memorial Day 2017 and amid the world’s greatest refugee crisis since World War II, Donald Trump imposed a four-month suspension of all refugee admissions into the US and indefinitely banned entry to all Syrian refugees. The president’s executive order suspends the […]
72% of Refugees, Muslim & Otherwise, are Women and Children
By Salil Shetty | (Inter Press Service) | – – LONDON (IPS) – The gloves are off. With today’s Executive Order on “Protecting the Nation from Terrorist Attacks by Foreign Nationals,” President Donald J. Trump has declared war on Muslim refugees around the world. With the stroke of a pen, the President has – among […]
Demonizing Muslims: White Quebec Terrorists kill 6 in attack on Mosque
TeleSur | – – Incidents of Islamophobia have increased in Quebec in recent years amid a political debate over banning the niqab. At least two people have been arrested in the aftermath of the deadly shooting of a Quebec City mosque that has left five people dead in the eastern Canadian province, according to reports. […]
From ‘Draining the Swamp’ to Bankocracy: All Trump’s Betrayals
By Nomi Prins | ( Tomdispatch.com | – – Irony isn’t a concept with which President Donald J. Trump is familiar. In his Inaugural Address, having nominated the wealthiest cabinet in American history, he proclaimed, “For too long, a small group in our nation’s capital has reaped the rewards of government while the people have […]
This time Dr. Strangelove is President: On the Political Psychology of Donald Trump
By Daniel Brumberg | (Informed Comment) | – – Is Donald Trump rational? Is he sane? Often posed before his election, this question is now a matter of urgent debate among commentators, pundits and political leaders—even from his own party. As Trump upends US immigration policy, and as his chief White House strategist projects the […]
Trump renders Green Cards for 250,000 Iraqis and Iranians Worthless
By Marcelo Rochabrun | ProPublica | – – Update: A spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security told Reuters on Saturday morning that the President’s executive order will, in fact, stop green card holders from seven countries from returning to the United States if they travel abroad. “It will bar green card holders,” the spokeswoman […]
Mexico ‘Astonished’ at Israel’s Netanyahu’s Tweet backing Wall
TeleSur | – – Earlier on Saturday, Netanyahu tweeted: “President Trump is right. I built a wall along Israel’s southern border… Great success. Great idea.” Mexico’s government on Saturday rebuked Israel for a tweet by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that applauded U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan to build a border wall with Mexico to keep […]
Persecution and the threat to the refugee system
By Brad K. Blitz | (OpenDemocracy.net) | – – We need to accept that for millions of refugees persecution is the principal reason for flight today as it was before, during and after the Holocaust. Following the passage of controversial proposals on the EURODAC database of asylum applicants’ and refugees’ fingerprints,Greens/EFA MEPs protest the erosion […]
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