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Through the US Dept of Homeland Security (DHS), President Biden’s Uniting for Ukraine program efficiently and uncontroversially resettled 187,000 Ukrainian refugees on American soil since Moscow’s brutal invasion of her western neighbor. This...
by C0RI0LANUS
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on Wed Apr 24, 2024 at 12:53 PM PDT
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Last week I had one of the most rewarding and yet most difficult experiences of my storytelling journey. I was asked to have a conversation/presentation with a group of male asylum seekers in their teens. They had crossed the border unaccompanied and...
by The Boss Gomez
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on Sat Mar 30, 2024 at 10:21 AM PDT
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I just received a solicitation from the Palestinian Feminist Collective (PFC) in regards to the violence in Gaza. I share the concern over the horrible conditions & events in Gaza & Israel but I am curious regarding the details & perspectives of such a...
by dlsamson
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on Thu Mar 21, 2024 at 07:18 PM PDT
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MiddleEastEye War on Gaza: Charity says Egypt intelligence-linked firm charging $5,000 [per truck] to get aid over border January 30, 2024 Speaking on condition of anonymity, to avoid obstruction to relief effort, an...
by mettle fatigue
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on Sat Feb 10, 2024 at 03:07 PM PST
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Don Murray’s career took off like a bull out of a rodeo gate, a perfect metaphor, considering his screen debut as the brash, unrelenting young cowboy Bo Decker, who woos and, eventually, wins Marilyn Monroe’s heart in Bus Stop. Promoted as...
by cracktactor
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on Sun Feb 04, 2024 at 12:39 PM PST
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Right-Wing Politics We have our quasi-fascist party (AfD) with almost 20% support - mostly in the former E. Germany where sympathy for Russia persists (the good old days when we did not have to take care of ourselves because all decisions were made by...
by mcornelison
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on Sat Feb 03, 2024 at 05:38 AM PST
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Whether ethnic cleansing or genocide, the internal or external displacement of populations by force or appropriation is always an attack on domiciles. Domicide becomes a covering term for the abuse of state power in removing domiciles. NEW YORK (28...
by annieli
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on Fri Jan 12, 2024 at 06:30 AM PST
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. Think of Donald Trump as, in his own fashion, a creature of climate change. After all, in 2015, he descended that escalator into...
by TomDispatch
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on Mon Jan 08, 2024 at 06:45 AM PST
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A cartoon by Jeff Danziger.
by Jeff Danziger
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on Sun Jan 07, 2024 at 01:31 PM PST
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“Emigration offers some of the things the frustrated hope to find when they join a mass movement, namely, change and a chance for a new beginning.” Eric Hoffer THE TRUE BELIEVER Is there total chaos at America’s southern border? That depends on who...
by Gregg Matson
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on Fri Dec 22, 2023 at 10:47 AM PST
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The solution to the crisis of refugees on our borders does not lie in Texas or Arizona or even Mexico. It lies in the countries of origin; Syria, Venezuela, Haiti, Sudan, etc. It stems from the brutal dictatorships or lawless gangs that impose violence...
by SCRW56
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on Thu Dec 21, 2023 at 09:48 AM PST
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Lately I have read report after report on Daily Kos about gerrymandering and Democratic politicians retiring because their old districts are now bright red, they can no longer win, so they are ...
by elenacarlena
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on Sat Dec 16, 2023 at 05:00 PM PST
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SHELTERBOX WILL BE RESPONDING IN GAZA The situation is complex, but we are committed to responding as soon as possible. Almost 1.9 million people – more than 85% of the population in Gaza – have been displaced across the Gaza Strip since October 7th....
by TexMex
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on Wed Dec 13, 2023 at 06:53 AM PST
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“It’s not a high bar,” said Professor Amichai Cohen, of the Israel Democracy Institute, when asked to comment on the assertion that Israel has the most moral army. Cohen is a recognized expert in the International Law of Armed Conflict, National...
by thewavethatiam
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on Thu Dec 07, 2023 at 04:43 AM PST
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by BrianMcFadden
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on Fri Dec 01, 2023 at 02:50 PM PST
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Observations of the War in Gaza – 2 Poems Always Those Words How often is heard People asking "love us by" Hating someone else! ** Young Man, Cart and Donkey in Gaza The young man drives the cart, A flatbed on wheels, Crammed to the edges with parents...
by Paul Frea
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on Wed Nov 15, 2023 at 11:48 AM PST
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As a historian and teacher, and as a Jew, I don’t throw around accusations of Nazi and Fascist lightly, but Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric and policy proposals have crossed the line. He has embraced Nazi racist ideology and proposed the...
by Alan Singer
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on Sun Nov 12, 2023 at 04:53 PM PST
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On Thanksgiving, I remember my Jewish ancestors who left Europe and am thankful America took them in “I’ve got something I’d like to say.” That’s what I usually offer up as a preamble�as I try to get the attention of my kids and other family members gathered around the Thanksgiving table. ...
by Ian Reifowitz
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on Thu Nov 23, 2023 at 09:00 AM PST
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. Yes, it was little short of pathetic. Remember the “big, fat, beautiful wall” that, from the first moment of his 2015-2016...
by TomDispatch
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on Thu Nov 09, 2023 at 08:45 AM PST
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We, the membership of an academic, cultural, artistic, sporting, professional, recreational, or social organization with no prior history of issuing statements on matters of international humanitarian affairs, wish to issue the following statement on a...
by Haricot Blue
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on Fri Nov 03, 2023 at 09:39 AM PDT
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