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Gingrich: Romney self-deportation plan a fantasy

AP Photo DORAL, Fla. (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich on Wednesday ridiculed rival Mitt Romney’s call for self-deportation of illegal immigrants as an « Obama-level fantasy » that would be inhumane to long-established families living in America. The former House speaker ripped that part of Romney’s immigration policy during a forum Wednesday with the Spanish-language […]

DORAL, Fla. (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich on Wednesday ridiculed rival Mitt Romney's call for self-deportation of illegal immigrants as an "Obama-level fantasy" that would be inhumane to long-established families living in America. The former House speaker ripped that part of Romney's immigration policy during a forum

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CIA/NYPD collaboration highlights disturbing trend of domestic surveillance

File Photo NEW YORK (MintPress)–2012 has already been a year to watch, and be watched. First came revelations of an unauthorized collaboration between the CIA and the NYPD. The close alliance began after 9/11. As part of a ramped up security regiment, the NYPD began targeting ethnic areas throughout New York City and in some […]

janvier 24th, 2012

Lisa Barron

janvier 24th, 2012

Par Lisa Barron

NEW YORK (MintPress)--2012 has already been a year to watch, and be watched. First came revelations of an unauthorized collaboration between the CIA and the NYPD. The close alliance began after 9/11. As part of a ramped up security regiment, the NYPD began targeting ethnic areas throughout New York City and in some parts of New Jersey in ways

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US shifts embassy staff amid Bahrain unrest

AP Photo MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — The U.S. State Department says it is moving American Embassy employees to safer locations in Bahrain after ongoing political unrest elevated security worries in the strategic Gulf kingdom. The statement issued late Monday says frequent clashes along a main highway in Manama have forced people to remain indoors […]

MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) — The U.S. State Department says it is moving American Embassy employees to safer locations in Bahrain after ongoing political unrest elevated security worries in the strategic Gulf kingdom. The statement issued late Monday says frequent clashes along a main highway in Manama have forced people to remain indoors

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Polish websites to go dark to protest ACTA

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Hundreds of people waged a street protest in Warsaw on Tuesday to protest the government’s plan to sign an international copyright treaty, hours before several popular websites plan to go dark for an hour over the issue. Poland’s support for the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or ACTA, has sparked days of protest, including attacks […]

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Hundreds of people waged a street protest in Warsaw on Tuesday to protest the government's plan to sign an international copyright treaty, hours before several popular websites plan to go dark for an hour over the issue. Poland's support for the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or ACTA, has sparked days of protest,

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Rights group calls on West to end ‘Arab exception’

AP Photo CAIRO (AP) — Popular uprisings sweeping the Arab world exposed biases by Westerngovernments that supported Arab autocratic rulers for the sake of « stability » while turning a blind eye to their repressive policies, Human Rights Watch said Sunday. The New-York based group urged democratic governments to adopt persistent and consistent support for peaceful protesters and to press both […]

Protesters chant slogans at a rally honoring those killed in clashes with security forces in Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Jan. 20, 2012, nearly a year after the 18-day uprising that ousted President Hosni Mubarak. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

CAIRO (AP) — Popular uprisings sweeping the Arab world exposed biases by Westerngovernments that supported Arab autocratic rulers for the sake of "stability" while turning a blind eye to their repressive policies, Human Rights Watch said Sunday. The New-York based group urged democratic governments to adopt persistent and consistent support for

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FBI arrests 4 officers for abuse in Conn. suburb

AP Photo EAST HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — Four police officers, including the president of the local police union, were arrested Tuesday by the FBI on charges that they assaulted illegal immigrants and created false reports to cover up abuses in a New Haven suburb where a federal investigation found life was made miserable for Hispanics. […]

EAST HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — Four police officers, including the president of the local police union, were arrested Tuesday by the FBI on charges that they assaulted illegal immigrants and created false reports to cover up abuses in a New Haven suburb where a federal investigation found life was made miserable for Hispanics. The East Haven officers

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