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Archives: Human Rights
Turkey’s Erdogan bans Wikipedia, TV Dating Shows, oh, and Fires 4,000
TeleSur | - - With the April 16 referendum having expanded Erdogan’s powers, the AKP leader continues to lead a mass crackdown against his citizens. While a hotly contested referendum earlier this…
GOP Politician: ‘ISIS Has Won’ After Confederate Monument Removed
Cenk Uygur | (The Young Turks) | Video News Clip | - - "Hey Confederates: your side lost. Yankees kicked your traitor slaver asses. Deal with it. Cenk Uygur, host of The…
Dear Marine Le Pen: Only a Fascist would Praise Colonialism . . . Oh Wait
Jessica Northey | ( OpenDemocracy.net) | - - Marine Le Pen's declaration that colonialism was a positive thing is not only a denial of France's painful history, but an example of the…
After the Chemical Attack, It’s Time to Get Rid of the ‘Muslim Ban’
By Peter Certo | (Otherwords.org) | - - Now that he cares about the fate of Syrian children, I hope Trump will open up our country — not bomb theirs. When I…
Risk of Mass Starvation Rising Rapidly in Africa, Yemen
TeleSur | - - "This really is an absolutely critical situation that is rapidly unfolding across a large swathe of Africa from west to east." The risk of mass starvation in four…
Trump: Syrian Refugees can have Tomahawks but not Asylum in US
By Lyndal Rowlands | (Inter Press Service) | - - UNITED NATIONS (IPS) - U.S. President Donald Trump Thursday night described the deepening Syrian refugee crisis as partial justification for the first…
Trump Ordered 70 Airstrikes in Yemen, Twice as Many as Last Year of Obama
TeleSur | - - U.S. President Trump also greenlighted a group operation in Yemen in February that killed more than 30 civilians. The young U.S. administration of Donald Trump has carried out…
After Trump Massacres in Mosul, Campaign against ISIL Halted
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Candidate Donald Trump called last year for carpet-bombing of Daesh (ISIS, ISIL) in Iraq and Syria. It is possible that Trump has loosened…
Top 5 Lessons Saudi should learn from its Failed Yemen War
By Mohammed Nuruzzaman | (Informed Comment) | - - Top 5 Lessons Saudi Arabia Learns from the Yemen War Saudi Arabia’s Yemen war has reached a dead end. Launched in late March…
Iraq: ISIS Dumped Hundreds in Mass Grave
Via Human Rights Watch | - - Security Forces, Prisoners, Women, Among Those Executed (Erbil) – The Islamic State (also known as ISIS) executed and dumped the bodies of possibly hundreds of…
Why Trump loves both Torture and Fake News: Doing Violence to the Truth
By Scott Beauchamp | (Informed Comment) | - - One of the more disturbing elements of Trump’s promised renewal of military dominance is a return of torture. Back on the campaign trail…
How Much of Globe’s Humanitarian Crisis is Fault of US?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs warned Saturday that the globe is facing the worst humanitarian crisis since the…
Ben Carson thinks Slaves came as “Immigrants,” earned “Less”
CBS | (Video News Clip) | - - "Housing and Urban Development Secretary Dr. Ben Carson is facing backlash after referring to slaves as immigrants. CBSN's Vlad Duthiers has the story on…
Refugees fleeing US for Canada across snowfields even at Cost of Limbs
TeleSur | - - The number of migrants applying for refugee status in Canada after crossing the border from the United States has been rising since the beginning of the year, officials…
ISIL: In Iraq’s desert, mass grave horror beneath the dirt
AFP | (Video News Report) | - - "The sinkhole that could be the largest mass grave in Iraq's latest conflict is barely visible from the road, nothing more than a small…
Turkey’s Coup aftermath and Human Rights: A Feminist Perspective
By Banu Gökarıksel | ( Duke University Blog ) | - - Feminist critiques of political power reveal the central function of gender, sexuality, and difference in maintaining that power. Yet, in…
Oscar Nominee Asghar Farhadi between US Muslim Ban and Ayatollahs’ Censorship
By Kevin Hagopian | (The Conversation) | - - Politics loom over this year’s Oscars, with many bracing for what the winners will – or won’t – say when they ascend the…