Immigration

By Aviva Chomsky | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – Ever since he rode a Trump Tower escalator into the presidential race in June 2015 and swore to build his “great wall” and stop Mexican “rapists” from entering the country, undocumented immigrants have been the focus of Donald Trump’s ire. Now that he’s in the […]

Arab Americans

How Middle Eastern Immigrants Boost US Competitiveness

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Sami Mahroum | ( Project Syndicate) | – – DUBAI – In his 1961 science fiction novel Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein chose a Muslim linguist, “Dr. Mahmoud,” to help the book’s Martian-raised protagonist make the transition to life in the United States. Stranger may be fiction, but Heinlein’s selection of a […]

Donald Trump

After the Chemical Attack, It’s Time to Get Rid of the ‘Muslim Ban’

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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 saw footage of the alleged sarin gas attack in Syria, I felt ill. The whole episode, which killed up to 100 civilians in […]

American Jews

What history reveals about surges in anti-Semitism and anti-immigrant sentiments

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By Ingrid Anderson | (The Conversation) | – – This February, more than 100 gravestones were vandalized at the Chesed Shel Emeth Society Cemetery outside of St. Louis, Missouri and at the Jewish Mount Carmel Cemetery in Philadelphia. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has called anti-Semitism in the U.S. a “very serious concern.” An ADL task […]

Donald Trump

Iranian Woman Visiting US arrested, taken to distant Jail Despite Valid Visa

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TeleSur | – – Alia Ghandi was denied U.S. entry to visit her family in Portland. Although courts rejected the so-called “Muslim ban,” an Iranian tourist was detained at an airport and jailed “without cause” in Portland, Oregon. Regardless of the fact that federal courts have repeatedly outlawed U.S. President Donald Trump’s discriminatory anti-Muslim travel […]

Africa

Africa Trade Summit in US Had Zero Africans After Visas Denied

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TeleSur | – – “This year it was 100 percent. Every delegation,” organizer Mary Flowers told the media. An African trade summit organized by the University of Southern California ended up with zero Africans as they were all denied visas to enter the United States just days before the summit despite applying months ahead of […]

Donald Trump

Hawaii Judge: Trump’s Muslim Ban 2.0 still Violates the Constitution

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Derrick Watson, US District Court judge in Honolulu, has issued a nationwide Temporary Restraining Order against Trump’s second attempt at an Executive Order excluding people from Muslim-majority countries from the United States. Watson found that the state of Hawaii, which brought the suit, was likely to […]

Arab Americans

To understand Muslim ban 2.0, think of Trump as a Crime Boss

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By Amir Ahmadi Arian | ( OpenDemocracy.net ) | – – Donald Trump is not an aberration. He is the extreme manifestation of an existing foreign policy doctrine – the ‘mafia principle’ – and he is determined to release the whole potential of its violent core. U.S. President Donald Trump. Picture by Pool/ABACA/ABACA/PA Images. All […]

Authoritarianism

Making us Less Safe: Trump bloating Pentagon Budget, cutting Diplomacy, Science

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By Miriam Pemberton | OtherWords | – – Throwing money at the Pentagon while gutting other programs that protect Americans shouldn’t make anyone feel safer. Millions of Americans are feeling uneasy, disgruntled, and insecure. That message sounded loud and clear throughout our turbulent election year. The Trump administration’s latest budget proposal isn’t likely to change […]