Category: War
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
America’s unintentional indifference to veterans I need you to understand that war is a democratic process. The military does not choose it. The people you choose to elect do. Respectfully, for that reason, you shouldn’t be allowed to gaze from afar, put us out of mind, cut off yourself to us. Whatever we have done, it was…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Israeli embassies around the world shut as diplomats, military attachés strike All Israeli embassies and consulates around the world shut down early Wednesday as diplomats and military attachés went on strike in a long-simmering dispute with the Finance Ministry over expense stipends paid to envoys. #Israel #Embassy #Strike #Diplomats Students defy prime minister to join Iraq protests…
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Good Ol’ Uncle Joe
I got a Black Friend The upcoming 2020 presidential election has been off to a crazy start already. The current orange asshole in the white house might just be impeached. Why? Because he might have asked a foreign government to investigate the ‘so-called’ Democratic presidential frontrunner, former Vice-President Joe Biden. Speaking of the former Vice…
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The Week in the Stories Around the Globe
Justin Trudeau Wore Brownface at 2001 ‘Arabian Nights’ Party While He Taught at a Private School The United States has a long and painful history of white performers darkening their faces to demean and dehumanize African-Americans—a practice made popular by minstrel shows in the 19th century. Blackface continued into the 20th century in Broadway shows and Hollywood…
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A Day at the Museum
My Journey to the National Museum of African American History The Souls of Black Folks I was skeptical when I heard about the opening of the National Museum of African American History. Would we get another watered-down version of black history? This museum was over a hundred years in the making and well worth it.…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
President Trump’s Comments About ‘The Squad’ Have Reinforced Racist and Inaccurate Posts About Them Online “This is the agenda of white nationalists, whether it is happening in chat rooms or it’s happening on national TV,” Omar said this week. “And now it’s reached the White House garden.” #Trump #WhiteSupremacy #SocialMedia#TheSquad ‘Die!’: Alleged arsonist turned a celebrated…
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America gonna America.
“We have fought hard and long for integration, as I believe we should have, and I know that we will win. But I’ve come to believe we’re integrating into a burning house. I’m afraid that America may be losing what moral vision she may have had …. And I’m afraid that even as we integrate,…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
China rebuked at UN over Uighur detention “We call on China to uphold its national laws and international obligations and to respect human rights and fundamental freedoms, including freedom of religion or belief in Xinjiang and across China,” the letter said. #China#UnitedNations#Uighur Britain says Iranian vessels tried to block tanker in Gulf In recent days, Iran had summoned…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Supreme Court Green-Lights Gerrymandering and Blocks Census Citizenship Question In a pair of decisions with vast implications for the American political landscape, the Supreme Court on Thursday delivered a victory to Republicans by ruling that federal courts are powerless to hear challenges to extreme partisan gerrymandering but gave a reprieve to Democrats by delaying the Trump administration’s efforts to…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
10 VERY DIFFERENT COUNTRIES. 10 VERY DIFFERENT RULES FOR LGBTQ+ INDIVIDUALS Around the world, LGBTQ+ rights are in flux, yet “what we are seeing in the world is, undoubtedly, momentum towards equality,” says Jean Freedberg, the Human Rights Campaign’s Director of Global Partnerships. To be clear, there’s still a lot of work to do to achieve that…
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