Wednesday, January 9, 2019

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A Theological Treatise from Pittsburgh

Responding to Domestic Terrorists

President Trump courts midterm votes with absurd questioning of Constitutional right to citizenship

Tourists in the White House

Trump Is Pushing the World Closer to Nuclear Peril: It is not too late to end this dangerous status quo. Let’s demand a better future, one that is free from nuclear weapons.

A Call for Solidarity in the Face of Hate | The Nation

'Vaya con Dios': The Impossible Life of a Judge on the US Immigration Frontline.  Robert Brack, who at one point had the heaviest caseload of any federal judge in the US, pleads for justice for the immigrants he sees every day

Mexican Saints and Trumps Emerge in Migrant/Refugee Drama

I’M MAKING IT MY BUSINESS TO STAND UP FOR IMMIGRANTS: Immigrants have enriched my Lancaster, Pennsylvania community. Now the administration wants to punish them for not being rich.

Mob boss gone mad: Trump longs to go after Clinton, apologizes for murderers.  How low can he go? Trump still yearns to "lock up" Hillary, but says "who cares?" on Khashoggi killing

Top 5 Ways Trump Put America Last with Whitewash of Saudi Prince: Did the exclamation points give it away? Trump began by saying he was putting America first, but that was the last thing he was doing.

Jamal Khashoggi and Saudi Arabia’s Dismemberment of Yemen

America’s Post-9/11 Wars Have Cost $5.9 Trillion: Not to mention 240,000 civilian deaths and 21 million displaced. And yet a congressional commission is urging yet more money for a bloated Pentagon.

Less Than Grand Strategy: Zbigniew Brzezinski’s Cold War.

Investigation Finds at Least $800M in Taxpayer Money Went to Funding For-Profit Immigrant Prisons in 2018: An aslyum-seeker who fled persecution in El Salvador described one private detention facility as "like a torture chamber"

New Migrant Caravan of 15,000 Set to Leave Honduras in January

War Crimes in Our Name: A Q&A With Shireen Al-Adeimi: The outspoken advocate details the plight of her native Yemen—and explains what needs to happen to avoid further disaster.

Trump’s Housekeeper Airs His Dirty Laundry: In public, politicians demonize immigrants. In private, they exploit them for personal gain.

War With Russia?  The New Cold War is more dangerous than the one the world survived.

Penalties for Employers Hiring Illegal Immigrants

Syria’s Kurds, Feeling Betrayed by the U.S., Ask Assad Government for Protection
Turkish-backed Syrian fighters gathered in the area of Sajur near Manbij, Syria, on Friday.

New Jersey AG has obtained evidence of possible crimes at Trump's golf club — and Mueller, FBI are involved in probe

Our Favorite Books of 2018: The year’s themes of political turmoil, self discovery and civil rights ring loud and clear with these gems.

Videos Show Migrant Children Being Slapped, Dragged At Since-Shuttered Arizona Shelter
The Hacienda Del Sol shelter, run by the embattled Southwest Key Programs, was shut down by the federal government in October.

Military women, female veterans are shifting away from GOP

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Trump claims 'wall' around Obamas' DC home is 'same thing' as border wall

Syria conflict: Trump 'slowing troop withdrawal', says Lindsey Graham

Inside Sources Say the State Dept Refuses To Trace Whether Israel Is Using U.S. Military Aid Illegally: Weapons paid for by the United States appear to have been used in the killings of at least 272 Palestinians since 2009.

GOP lawmaker suggests Trump use some of his own money to help pay for border wall

Mexican mayor gunned down after being sworn in: Gov. Alejandro Murat confirmed the killing of Tlaxiaco Mayor Alejandro Aparicio Santiago via his Twitter account Tuesday.

Mexican politician climbs border wall to prove a point about Trump’s immigration policy
Nearly two-thirds of Americans oppose the wall's construction, and even more think they will end up paying for it

The Senate’s Yemen Vote Proves a More Democratic Foreign Policy Is Possible: Public outrage over US-Saudi relations may put an end to war—and serve as an important lesson for progressives.

We Have Entered A Dangerous Moral Universe: What futures can we imagine when we no longer trust our senses?

Trump Is Outsourcing the Migrant Crisis to Mexico

Jailed, Raped, Deported, Robbed: Separated from his wife and children by ICE, an undocumented man tries desperately to return home.

Blackwater’s Dark Prince Returns A DECADE AFTER BLACKWATER’S RETREAT AMID SCANDAL AND A MASSACRE, ITS FOUNDER ERIK PRINCE WANTS TO PRIVATIZE AND SHRINK THE CONFLICT IN AFGHANISTAN. RECENT WHITE HOUSE TURNOVER HAS GIVEN HIS PLAN A FIGHTING SHOT

Israeli official ‘in shock’ as Trump says Iran ‘can do what they want’ in Syria: ‘It is sad that he is not attentive to intelligence materials,’ senior Jerusalem source quoted as saying of US president

Call Trump’s Bluff on Immigration Reform

The Priest and the Migrant: Meeting the Caravan in the Advent Season

Lessons from South of the Border: In Tijuana, some Mexicans have embraced the Trump line on Central American migrants. But others have welcomed them with open arms.

The Pivotal GHW Bush Presidency: How the US became Mired in the Mideast

2 Republican Senators Break From Trump on Wall Demand

No, locking your house is not like locking the border

Trump battered by James Clapper for getting played by North Korea: ‘Kim Jong-Un is in the driver’s seat’

Fact check: What's a 'national emergency,' and can Trump declare one to get his wall?  Legal experts said it wouldn't be as simple as Trump seemed to suggest on Friday — but maybe not totally out of the realm of possibility.

A Database Showed Far-Right Terror on the Rise. Then Trump Defunded It.  Is the administration trying to thwart efforts to combat white supremacy?

A Day, a Life: When a Medic Was Killed in Gaza, Was It an Accident?

AIKO HERZIG YOSHINAGA, FROM DEEP IN THE ARCHIVES, SHE BROUGHT JUSTICE FOR
JAPANESE-AMERICANS.

WALTER MISCHEL, A PSYCHOLOGIST OF GREAT DISCIPLINE WHO SOMETIMES COULDN’T WAIT BEFORE GRABBING THAT SECOND MARSHMALLOW.

Fact Check: Did the U.S. catch 4,000 terrorists at the southern border in 2018?  Said one ex-official, "Terrorists trying to infiltrate the U.S. across our southern border was more of a theoretical vulnerability than an actual one."

The World Is Full of Walls That Don’t Work: Why would Donald Trump want to build another one?

What Happened When A Trump Supporter Challenged Me About the Wall

November border arrests jump to highest in Trump presidency

Donald Trump Jr. Says Border Wall Is Like A Zoo Fence Protecting You From Animals: Critics slammed the president’s son over the Instagram message.

Donald Trump’s Border Speech Gets A Savage Instant Fact-Check On Fox News: Shepard Smith had some quick corrections for the president.

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