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Billionaire Wilbur Ross on Unpaid Fed Workers: “Let them Eat Debt!”
By Chris Lefkow | – Washington, D.C. (AFP) – Donald Trump’s billionaire commerce secretary fueled accusations Thursday that the US administration was deaf to the […]
With Trump out, Putin and Turkey’s Erdogan Carve up Syria
Moscow plans to organise a three-way summit with Turkey and Iran early this year
MESA: Israeli Arrests of Palestinian Students and Professors, Israeli Assaults on Palestinian Campuses
The attacks, assaults, and detentions described above are grave violations of basic rights to education and academic freedom.
White Terrorists who Pled Guilty to Bombing Minnesota Mosque Wanted to Build Trump’s Wall
The wall would be “a powerful architectural statement of the determination of the American people to defend their nation and its Anglo-Saxon heritage”
Trump as Hostage-Taker in Chief: From Congress to Cohen to Migrant Children
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – I argued when Trump was sworn in that his regime represented a new form of government, psychopathocracy— a government without […]
From Rights Abuses to Yemen War Crimes, Saudi Can’t Escape Spotlight
New Human Rights Watch Report out Now
Climate Stress drove Wave of Arab Spring Refugees
Severe droughts made more likely by global warming worsened conflict in Arab Spring countries, forcing people to flee
US Uses Migrant Children as ‘Bait’ to Catch Sponsors: Lawsuit
Some 10,000 migrant children being held in Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) shelters are being denied due process rights as asylum seekers, the lawsuit argues. […]
Not with a Bang but a Whimper: Last Village of ISIL “Caliphate” falls to Syrian Kurds
Beirut (AFP) – Kurdish-led fighters overran the last village held by the Islamic State group in Syria on Wednesday, confining its once vast cross-border “caliphate” […]