The portrayal and labeling of immigrants as criminals is part of the reason we rip children from their parents’ arms, the reason we starve individuals, and why we dress them up like criminals and put them in prisons, the reason we make them camp for two weeks outside of entry points before potentially initiating the asylum process. This is all public information, and the Trump administration is proud of it.
The richest 1 percent of the world’s population controls 40 percent of the world’s wealth. And it is getting worse.
Cyprus has been divided between Greek and Turkish Cypriots since 1974, with Turkish Cypriots in the north and Greek Cypriots in the south with a U.N. monitored buffer zone separating the two. There is general agreement that Cyprus should be one state and not two, that this one state would be federal in nature, and would be part of the European Union. But the devil is in the details.
The lack of outrage at the US’s key role in this humanitarian disaster raises troubling questions.
The Argentine Senate’s rejection of a bill to legalize abortion did not stop a Latin American movement, which is on the streets and is expanding in an increasingly coordinated manner among women’s organizations in the region with the most restrictive laws and policies against pregnant women’s right to choose.
With the Cold War ending in the early 1990s, some Western scholars predicted a more peaceful world with liberal democracy the only game in town. The findings of the Global Peace Index suggest otherwise.
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