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High school senior D'Angelo McDade, front right, leads a march in Chicago's North Lawndale neighborhood during a walkout to protest gun violence, March 14, 2018. About 200 students joined the march as a sign of solidarity with students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., the scene of a recent school shooting in Florida in which 17 students and educators died. (AP/Martha Irvine)
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Archives for 3月 2018

ISIS Maybe Regrouping for a Comeback in Iraq

The honeymoon is over: After celebrating victory over ISIS, Iraqi security forces now have to deal with a new wave of fighters who prepared to start a guerrilla war.

Mustafa Habib
作者 Mustafa Habib
An ISIS convoy prepares for an attack on Iraqi military positions in Nineveh in Northeastern Iraq. (Chris Tomson/AMN)

Over the past month there has been an increase in attacks by extremists in various parts of Iraq, but in particular, on the outskirts of cities that were previously controlled by the extremist group known as the Islamic State. “We have recorded dozens of terrorist activities in various parts of the country,” a senior officer in the defence ministry

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Ahed Tamimi Showed Us How Social Media Can Influence Wars

Ahed Tamimi’s story and social media image have potential to influence opinions and positions on Israel’s ongoing occupation of Palestine.

Niki Seth-Smith
作者 Niki Seth-Smith
A Free Ahed Tamimi" flyer at 2018 Women's March on January 20, 2018 in New York City. (Diego Corredor/MediaPunch/IPX)

In December 2017, a then 16-year-old Palestinian girl named Ahed Tamimi was filmed slapping and kicking an Israeli soldier outside her family home in the occupied West Bank. She had just heard that her 14-year-old cousin Muhammad had been shot in the head with a rubber bullet. Tamimi then faced up to 10 years in prison on charges of assault and

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US Demands China Keep Importing America’s Garbage

China is threatening to ban imports on American waste, a move that would force the US to reassess how it processes its solid waste, including – most notably – how and where it is stored.

ZeroHedge.com
作者 ZeroHedge.com
Discarded television sets pile up in a scrap yard awaiting recycling in Zhuzhou city in south China's Hunan province. (AP Photo)

As it tries to strike an agreement with the U.S. to avert a trade war that economists fear could destabilize global markets, China has an ace up its sleeve that it's just about ready to play: The Communist Party last year implemented a ban on imports of recyclable material that is provoking a mild panic in the U.S. The reason? The U.S. relies on

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Donald Trump to the International Community: Drop Dead

Donald Trump bucks human rights, and regularly heaps praise on and mingles with despots. Think of him as the invasion of Iraq raised to a global level.

John Feffer
作者 John Feffer
President Donald Trump, left, listens to South Korean President Moon Jae-in during a joint news conference at the Blue House in Seoul, South Korea, Nov. 7, 2017. President Donald Trump, on his first day on the Korean peninsula, signaled a willingness to negotiate with North Korea to end its nuclear weapons program, urging Pyongyang to "come to the table" and "make a deal." (AP/Andrew Harnik)

Donald Trump has a plan to solve America’s drug crisis: kill the drug dealers. "We have pushers and drugs dealers, they are killing hundreds and hundreds of people," Trump said at a recent White House summit on opioid abuse. "Some countries have a very, very tough penalty, the ultimate penalty, and by the way, they have much less of a drug

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Perjury, Lying Deeply Ingrained into American Police Culture

Police lying is as old as policing itself, and like all culturally ingrained customs, it will not disappear without the sustained intervention of outside forces.

Kali Holloway
作者 Kali Holloway
Newly minted NYPD Officers attend the New York City Police Graduation Ceremony for the Graduating Class of December 2017 held at the Beacon Theater on December 28, 2017 in New York City. (Photo: Mpi43/MediaPunch/IPX)

Police officers lie under oath in court so often that they’ve even given the practice a nickname. “Behind closed doors, we call it testilying,” New York City police officer Pedro Serrano told the New York Times. “You take the truth and stretch it out a little bit.” The term, the Times notes, came into common usage among cops about 25 years ago,

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The Untold Story: Russiagate and the Media’s Authoritarian Turn

There is no evidence that the WikiLeaks disclosures or the social media posts allegedly intended to undermine support for Clinton had any effect on the election. What almost certainly did was low turnout by Democratic voters, especially African-Americans.

Jon Jeter
作者 Jon Jeter
Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., ranking member of the House Committee on Intelligence, speaks during a media availability as reporters keep an eye on their phones, after a closed-door meeting of the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill, Feb. 5, 2018 in Washington. (AP/Alex Brandon)

NEW YORK -- Published 25 years ago this fall, Mark Danner’s 22,000-word article for the New Yorker magazine recreated, in painstakingly vivid detail, the 1981 massacre of nearly 800 villagers by a  Salvadoran Army brigade hunting for communist guerrilla fighters: Through the window she saw soldiers leading groups of men from the little whitewashed

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