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African-Americans
Trump in Alabama:  Playing George Wallace & making Latinos the new N-Word

Trump in Alabama: Playing George Wallace & making Latinos the new N-Word

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Margaret Howell and Jo Ankier | (TheLipTV Video News Commentary) | – – “Donald Trump held a pep rally at the Ladd-Peebles Stadium in Alabama on Friday night drawing around 30,000 people. The Republican frontrunner’s speech highlighted his immigration stance, which many have condemned as racist, sparking comparisons to segregationist George Wallace from both his […]

Iraq
Can Iraq’s Shiite Militias save the Country from Sectarian Division?  Qais al-Khazali thinks So

Can Iraq’s Shiite Militias save the Country from Sectarian Division? Qais al-Khazali thinks So

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By Mohammed al-Zaidi | Najaf | (Niqash.org) | – – NIQASH meets Qais al-Khazali, head of one of Iraq’s most feared militias. The cleric and soldier answered critics, talking about what to do when his fighters commit crimes and whether militias are replacing the army. Most often seen in uniform these days: Qais al-Khazali, leader […]

Apartheid
Israel: Surge in Unlawful Palestinian Home Demolitions:  126 in West Bank Left Homeless

Israel: Surge in Unlawful Palestinian Home Demolitions: 126 in West Bank Left Homeless

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Human Rights Watch | – – (Jerusalem) – The Israeli military unlawfully demolished at least 39 structures in Bedouin Palestinian communities in the West Bank on August 17 and 18, 2015. The demolitions left 126 people homeless, 80 of them children. Four of the communities where the demolitions took place are targeted by an Israeli […]

Barack Obama
They’re Baaack!  Neoconservatives, Netanyahu, and the GOP set up US-Iran War of 2017

They’re Baaack! Neoconservatives, Netanyahu, and the GOP set up US-Iran War of 2017

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By David Bromwich | ( Tomdispatch.com ) “We’re going to push and push until some larger force makes us stop.” David Addington, the legal adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney, made that declaration to Jack Goldsmith of the Office of Legal Counsel in the months after September 11, 2001. Goldsmith would later recall that Cheney […]

Christianity
ISIS Desecrates, Razes Ancient Christian Monastery in Syria

ISIS Desecrates, Razes Ancient Christian Monastery in Syria

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Iraq-Syria News | (Video News Report) | – – “Yet again, ISIS violated the sanctity of Christianity in the Middle East and in Syria in particular. This time, the target was the Monastery of Mar Elian [St. Julian of the East] in the town of Qaryatain, 68 miles northeast of Damascus. ISIS posted photos on […]

Apartheid
Israel’s Illegal blockade of Gaza based on “made-up laws”; resistance outlawed

Israel’s Illegal blockade of Gaza based on “made-up laws”; resistance outlawed

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By Azeezah Kanji | (OpenDemocracy) | – – Israel invokes the privileges of engaging in international armed conflict but denies Palestinians their corresponding entitlements under the same body of law. This is the colonial nature of Israel’s legal logic. One year after the onslaught of violence Israel called “Operation Protective Edge,” Gaza is still in […]

Desertification
NOAA:  July 2015 was most Torrid Month on Record, caused by burning Fossil Fuels

NOAA: July 2015 was most Torrid Month on Record, caused by burning Fossil Fuels

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IBTimes UK | (Video News Report) | – – IBTimes UK: “Global warming: July 2015 was the hottest month ever recorded” Addendum: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reports: “The July average temperature across global land and ocean surfaces was 1.46°F (0.81°C) above the 20th century average. As July is climatologically the warmest month for […]

Displaced and Refugees
Slovakia Will Only Accept Christian Migrants

Slovakia Will Only Accept Christian Migrants

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Jo Ankier and Jose Marcelino Orti | (TheLipTV Video News) | – – “Slovakia announced Thursday that it will only accept Christians when it takes in refugees fleeing conflict in Syria under an EU resettlement plan as Europe deals with an influx of migrants. Muslims would not be accepted because they would not feel at […]

Apartheid
Israel issues demolition order for mosque in Palestinian East Jerusalem

Israel issues demolition order for mosque in Palestinian East Jerusalem

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Ma’an News Agency | – – JERUSALEM (Ma’an) — Israeli municipality officials delivered a demolition order Friday to the al-Qaaqaa Mosque, a house, and a studio apartment in the Silwan neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem, local sources told Ma’an. Majdi al-Abbasi, from the Wadi Hilweh Information Center in Silwan, said that Israeli municipality members delivered […]

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