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Dear Graduates: We’re Leaving you a Trumpian America; Please Fix It

By Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | - - I’ve long had a weakness for commencement addresses, or at least for what they might be rather than what they usually are,…

Michigan faculty Support Muslim Students on Campus in face of Trumpian Hate-Chalking

Dear Members of the U-M [University of Michigan] community We stand with our friends/students/colleagues and with the Central Student Government (CSG), Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs (SACUA), and Senate Assembly in…

5 Years After Revolution, Egyptians See #PanamaPapers as Further Vindication of Mubarak’s Ouster

By Salma Essam | (Global Voices) | - - Among the names contained in the Panama Papers, the enormous trove of confidential documents revealing how the world's elite exploit tax havens, is…

Arab Youth view ISIL as major Mideast Obstacle, want less Religion

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The annual Arab Youth survey conducted by pollsters Burson-Marsteller is out, reporting on 3500 interviews with Arabs 18-24 years of age in 16…

Lebanon: Over 70% of Syrian Refugee Children Forced into Child Labor

Lebanon: Over 70% of Syrian Refugee Children Forced into Exploitative Child Labor

TeleSur | - - A report by an anti-slavery group also details how Syrian refugee girls are being forced into child marriage and sex slavery. Up to 70 percent of Syrian refugee…

‘Not Sharia’: Female Afghan Rap Star campaigns against Child Marriage

Jon Snow | (Channel 4 News Video Report) | - - "Sonita Alizadeh was just 10-years-old the first time her parents tried to sell her as a child bride. She turned to…

Thousands of Children Under Siege in War-Torn Syria

By Valentina Ieri | (Inter Press Service) | - - UNITED NATIONS (IPS) - Seeing children dying due to a lack of doctors and medicines, and seeing them grow up in a…

Two Children Die Every Day Trying to Cross the Mediterranean

TeleSur | - - Children make up 36 percent of the those making the perilous migration journey across the sea, often to flee conflicts. As the refugees crisis surges on with thousands…

Is the future Socialist? Bernie Sanders swept 84% of the Youth Vote Iowa

Is the future Socialist? Bernie Sanders swept 84% of the Youth Vote in Iowa

TeleSur | - - Sanders captured the youth vote in Iowa. However, youth voter turnout was down 4 percent from when President Barack Obama ran in 2008. In what the Iowa Democratic…

Fears of Trafficking: 10,000 Refugee Children Missing In Europe

AJ+ | (Video News Report) | -- "At least five children and 34 adult refugees died after their boat capsized off the Turkish coast. But for the children who make it to…

Tahrir 5 Years Later: The Hurdles to Democratization & Arab Youth Revolts

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - A frequently met-with Western political and often journalistic narrative of the 2011 youth revolts in the Arab world is that idealistic young people…

400,000 Syrian Refugee Children Can’t Go To School In Turkey

AJ+ | (Video Report) | - - "Even though Syrian refugee children can legally go to school in Turkey, language barriers and economic struggles make it hard for them to actually attend."…

Parenting in Fear: Leaving a Climate Apocalypse to our Children

Frida Berrigan | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | - - Madeline is in the swing, her face the picture of delight. “Mo, mo,” she cries and kicks her legs to show me that…

Why Are So Many Millennials Rallying Behind Bernie Sanders?

Lindsay Miller | (Popsugar Video Report) | - - "If you've been on Facebook lately, there's a good chance you've seen Bernie Sanders popping up in your feed. The 73-year-old senator is…

Rights group: Israelis have killed nearly 2000 Palestinian children since 2000

Ma'an News Agency | - - BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- More than 1,991 Palestinian children have been killed by Israeli forces and extremists since 2000, according to figures released by an international rights…

Losing Hope, Iraqi Youth become Illegal Immigrants to ‘Save Themselves’

Mustafa Habib | Baghdad | (Niqash.org) | - - Previously it was the unemployed or those threatened who tried to leave Iraq for good. But a new wave of would-be immigrants is…

Young Protesters Languish in Jail under Egypt’s Military Counter-Revolution

By Nelly Bassily | ( openDemocracy) | - - Yara Sallam is starting the second year of her sentence in Qanater Women's prison outside Cairo. She says, "I do not feel any…

After Israeli Attack, 50% Gaza Children have PTSD, 10% have regular Nightmares

After Israeli Attack, 50% Gaza Children have PTSD, 70% have regular Nightmares

By IMEMC | - - Gaza Community Mental Health Program’s (GCMHP) Deputy Director General for Professional Affairs Taysir Diab Thursday said around 51% of Gaza’s children and 31% of its adults suffer…

Israel: Security Forces Abuse Palestinian Children: Chokeholds, Beatings, Coercive Interrogations

Human Rights Watch | - - (Jerusalem) – Israeli security forces have used unnecessary force to arrest or detain Palestinian children as young as 11. Security forces have choked children, thrown stun…

Wars targeting Children: 20 mn Homeless, 300K Conscripted & now Mass Abductions by ISIL

By Beatriz Ciordia | (Inter Press Service) | - - UNITED NATIONS (IPS) - Whether in Palestine, Ukraine or Somalia, wars result in millions of children threatened by the brutality of armed…