The executive order includes no provision to reunite the 2,300 separated families and illegally proposes to detain children indefinitely. Caracas (TeleSur) – United States President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday after an international outcry over his immigrant family separation policy at the southern border. The event was reported as Trump ending family separations, […]
Archives for June 2018
At US Border, Children Still ‘crying and screaming’ for Mothers
“Some of the mothers could see their children but couldn’t get near to them, some of them couldn’t see them.”
Police Killings of African-Americans exact Mental Health Toll: The Lancet
The disproportionately high rate at which unarmed black people die at the hands of police has an impact on the mental health of black Americans
Not only Is Trump’s Refugee Policy Morally Wrong, it is Illegal in US and Int’l Law
The US is a signatory state to a 1967 protocol that binds it to act in concert with the UN High Commissioner on Refugees
Look Deeper: Child Detention and the US’s Paramilitary Politics Abroad
Throughout Central America extreme inequality along with ruthless and repressive governments have led to a pathological politics
Turkey: Social Media Activists Resist Authoritarian Pres. Erdogan in Run-Up to Elections
Essex (The Conversation) – Turkey will soon go to the polls for the fifth time in less than four years. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced them on the same day that parliament extended the national state of emergency for the seventh time since the botched coup attempt of July 2016. Erdoğan brought these elections forward […]
Are Police Tracking You Using Facial Recognition? (Video)
AJ+ explores the risks and benefits of facial recognition software
As Pentagon Encircles China, Does Military Conflict With Beijing Loom?
From Beijing, the strategic outlook articulated by Secretary of Defense James Mattis is clearly viewed as threatening
Yemen’s Huthis vow to fight on after losing Hodeida airport to Saudi-Backed Coalition
Yemen’s Huthi rebels vowed to fight on after pro-government forces seized Hodeida airport from them on Wednesday