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Israeli Squatters Are Standing In The Way Of Peace With Occupied Palestine

Israeli squatters on Palestinian land continue to be a major roadblock to peace.

Martin Michaels
Par Martin Michaels

Last month, Omar Hushiyeh, a 28-year-old Palestinian from the village of Khirbet al-Markez in the South Hebron Hills, was grazing sheep on his family’s land when he was suddenly attacked and beaten by three Jewish settlers. “I was walking behind the sheep, not paying attention to anything in particular. Suddenly, someone pushed me from behind and

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Civil Rights And Immigration History Connected

« It doesn’t make sense that millions of our people are living in the shadows, » said Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., who was a speaker at the 1963 event.

Associated Press
Par Associated Press
FILE - In this Oct. 3, 1965, file photo U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson sits at his desk on Liberty Island in New York Harbor as he signs a new immigration bill. It was in 1965 that the U.S. government radically changed its immigration policy, and planted the seeds for America's current demographic explosion, a shift that historians say happened in part because of a hunger for change and equality created by the civil rights movement. (AP Photo/stf, File)

NEW YORK — When 250,000 marchers converged on Washington in August 1963, the issues were jobs and freedom. Now, as the crowds come together to mark the 50th anniversary of that seminal event in the civil rights movement, those issues have been joined by others, including one, immigration reform, that wasn't nearly on the political radar then

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When A Black Person Kills A Black Person, Is It Still A Hate Crime?

Why doesn’t black on black violence trigger the same outrage as other violence?

Katie Rucke
Par Katie Rucke

Community members’ silence after someone in the community shoots one of their own is not just an issue relegated to the streets of Minneapolis — it’s a national issue that has made its way to Oklahoma this week after three “bored” teenagers shot and killed a White college student. An editorial in the Wall Street Journal this past week said the

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Mexico’s History Of Tourism And Corporate ‘Development’

Will Enrique Peña Nieto $8.6 billion tourism plan protect natives or displace them?

Martin Michaels
Par Martin Michaels

Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto announced an $8.6 billion plan to revive Mexico’s tourist industry this week after years of violence associated with the war on drugs has depressed the national tourist economy. At least 60,000 Mexican citizens have died as a result of cartel violence in the past few years, but such violence is virtually

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Civil Liberties Are Once Again Threatened By Emerging Police Technology

Police departments are relying on technology that allows them to block data transmission whenever they like.

Katie Rucke
Par Katie Rucke
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In order to prevent embarrassing videos of police officers pepper-spraying handcuffed individuals — and other acts clearly in violation of Americans’ rights — from appearing on social media sites, many police departments are relying on technology that allows police to turn off or block data transmission whenever they like, including blocking mobile

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Is There Really A Two-Party System In The US?

Both Democrats and Republicans toe the same party line on everything from labor to interventionist foreign policy. Is money to blame?

Frederick Reese
Par Frederick Reese

So far in President Obama’s second term, the president has been placed on the spot for a seemingly endless array of missteps within the executive branch — including the expanding revelations of the National Security Agency’s involvement on the non-terrorism-related electronic surveillance of American citizens, and most recently, disclosure that in

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