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The Intercept THE RECENT WHITE SUPREMACIST mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, and the Justice Department’s new willingness to label this kind of attack domestic terrorism have prompted renewed calls for the creation of more powerful anti-terrorism laws to...
The Middle East Eye The reputation of one of the western world’s most prominent Islamic scholars sits on a precipice. Sheikh Hamza Yusuf, the American Muslim scholar, known for his razor-sharp wit, peerless grasp of the Arabic language, and propped up as the voice of...
The Nation Last month, after Maryland Representative Elijah Cummings criticized conditions in the migrant camps along the Mexican border, President Trump took to Twitter to call Cummings’s district—a sailboat-shaped parcel that covers about half of Baltimore City and...
The Ghion Journal How am I a person of color, as I’m a deviation from the norm, when science has affirmed that mankind was conceived in “Africa”. I am colored compared to whom given that the first humans were actually my complexion? What makes me a “minority”, as if...
The Grayzone A year after a US-backed coup attempt rocked Nicaragua, a major scandal is unfolding over the alleged theft of half a million dollars in US taxpayer money by an organization at the center of the destabilization effort. Three board members of the...
The Real News Network GREG WILPERT Welcome to The Real News Network. I’m Greg Wilpert in Baltimore. The issue of whether China intends to send troops into Hong Kong to repress the wave of protests happening there at the moment came to the forefront last week when...
CounterPunch Ninety-one people a day die from opioids and 1000 visit ERs in the US according to the CDC. How did opioid makers get such a deathly grip on the US population? Recently, the New York Times reported that the global consulting firm McKinsey &...
Democracy Now! AMY GOODMAN: Let’s go back to last night’s debate. This is Senator Kamala Harris. SEN. KAMALA HARRIS: After the last debate, for example, I went to a place in Florida called Homestead. And there is a private detention facility,...
Truthdig It was big news. U.S. military forces streamed into Saudi Arabia in response to a supposedly serious threat to the kingdom’s eastern region. The American troops were invited by nervous Saudi royals; it wasn’t an American invasion per se. Everything...
FAIR Journalists routinely dehumanize human beings crossing the southern border by comparing them to natural disasters like a “flood” or “deluge.” But while migration has always been a natural phenomenon, the increasingly forced migration of people escaping...