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Mexico Border Wall

Donald Trump calls new border wall a ‘world-class security system’

President Donald Trump talks with reporters as he tours a section of the southern border wall, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2019, in Otay Mesa, Calif., as acting Homeland Secretary Kevin McAleenan listens, second from left. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) President Donald Tru…

bubmagSeptember 19, 2019

Palestine

Israel: Democracy or Apartheid?

Subscribe to the Deconstructed podcast on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Radio Public, and other platforms. New to podcasting? Click here. Israeli voters returned to the polls this week for the second time in five months to elect the 120 members …

bubmagSeptember 19, 2019

Hrant Dink

Translation as a Condition of Life: The Millions Interviews Aron Aji

Before I took the translation workshop with Aron Aji at the University of Iowa, I had translated two novels from English to Chinese. Literary translation struck me as hard labor, often times low paying. But Ajis class turned out to be a life-changing experien…

bubmagSeptember 19, 2019

Obamacare

From Mayor Pete, Here Comes ‘Medicare For All Who Want It’

Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg introduced a health care plan Thursday designed to cover nearly everybody and make insurance less expensive for people who have it already, through a combination of expanded government subsidies, limits on medi…

bubmagSeptember 19, 2019

NSA

Edward Snowden Speaks

Edward Snowden appears on a live video feed broadcast from Moscow at an event sponsored by ACLU Hawaii in Honolulu in February 2015. (Marco Garcia / AP) Thank you for signing up. For more from The Nation, check out our latest issue. Thank you for signing up…

bubmagSeptember 19, 2019

Water Scarcity

Yemen Press Reader 576a: | Jemenkrieg-Mosaik 576a- Yemen War Mosaic 576a

Eingebetteter Medieninhalt Eingebetteter Medieninhalt Dieses Jemenkrieg-Mosaik besteht aus zwei Teilen / This Yemen War Mosaic is divided in two parts Part 1: https://www.freitag.de/autoren/dklose/jemenkrieg-mosaik-576-yemen-war-mosaic-576 ... USA beschul…

bubmagSeptember 19, 2019

Yemen Civil War

Yemen Press Reader 576: | Jemenkrieg-Mosaik 576 – Yemen War Mosaic 576

Eingebetteter Medieninhalt Eingebetteter Medieninhalt Eingebetteter Medieninhalt Dieses Jemenkrieg-Mosaik besteht aus zwei Teilen / This Yemen War Mosaic is divided in two parts Part 2: https://www.freitag.de/autoren/dklose/jemenkrieg-mosaik-576a-yemen-wa??? Read More

bubmagSeptember 19, 2019

Donald Trump

Your Thursday Briefing

(The group also has ergonomic advice on purses, briefcases and suitcases.) The first lightweight nylon backpacks appeared around 1967, designed by JanSport and Gerry Outdoors for hikers and, uh, backpackers. But college kids soon started to adopt them. By th…

bubmagSeptember 19, 2019

Hiroshima

Burning Amazonia, Denying Climate Change, Devastating Syria, Starving Yemen, and Ignoring Kashmir

Photograph Source: NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens – Public Domain The World Order BackdropArguably, even before the atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, there was a widespread sense that a state-centric form of world order was morally and fun…

bubmagSeptember 19, 2019

Global Warming

Earth to 2020 Democrats. The Syrian civil war was not caused by climate change.

This is a sad excuse for real discussion on climate change and international conflict, two very separate issues. Is global warming to blame for the Syrian war? Democratic presidential candidates Pete Buttigieg, Beto O'Rourke and Bernie Sanders seem to think …

bubmagSeptember 19, 2019

Donald Trump calls new border wall a ‘world-class security system’

Israel: Democracy or Apartheid?

Translation as a Condition of Life: The Millions Interviews Aron Aji

From Mayor Pete, Here Comes ‘Medicare For All Who Want It’

Edward Snowden Speaks

Yemen Press Reader 576a: | Jemenkrieg-Mosaik 576a- Yemen War Mosaic 576a

Yemen Press Reader 576: | Jemenkrieg-Mosaik 576 – Yemen War Mosaic 576

Your Thursday Briefing

Burning Amazonia, Denying Climate Change, Devastating Syria, Starving Yemen, and Ignoring Kashmir

Earth to 2020 Democrats. The Syrian civil war was not caused by climate change.

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