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Eight Year Old Nawar al-Awlaki, Nine Others, Killed by U.S. Forces in Yemen
February 1, 2017 – Today Donald Trump went to an air force base as the remains of a Navy Seal who died in Yemen arrived. That soldier was part of a raiding force of U.S. troops in Yemen. These soldiers were allegedly “gathering evidence”. In their raid they killed at least ten women and children, including 8 year old Nawar al-Awlaki. Trump offered no solace or apologies for their deaths. Trump claims Yemeni people pose a threat to Americans. This turns reality on its head. The people of Yemen have suffered greatly, and Trump is escalating the hell they live ...
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Fascism on the March, Sharpening Crisis, and the Urgency to Act
Download PDF of this article. by Sunsara Taylor On January 27, Donald Trump issued a vicious ban on immigrants from seven majority Muslim countries and a ban on all refugees. With the stroke of a pen, the lives of thousands were destroyed and shockwaves of terror and fear were sent into entire countries and communities. By that evening, thousands amassed at airports in protest—chanting, forming emergency legal clinics, blocking traffic and completely upending business as usual. These protests have continued in different forms for days, clogging major cities and towns all across the country and in other parts of the ...
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New Threats and Thuggery in the Trump Regime’s War on Truth
In just nine days, the Trump regime has pumped out lie after lie. Trump demonizes all Muslims, devoid of evidence. He promotes the most outrageous lies about the cause and nature of the global refugee crisis. Trump dehumanizes Black people and Mexicans. He insists, against all facts, that the turnout for his inauguration was under-reported. He claimed, and when challenged insisted—without any basis—that “millions” of people voted against him illegally. This is not just a series of lies, this is a war on truth. And in the past few days, top people in the Trump regime and Trump himself have ...
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Texas Governor Threatens Sanctuary Cities
On Thursday, January 25, Texas governor Greg Abbott announced a flagrantly unconstitutional proposal to "remove from office any officeholder who promotes sanctuary cities”. His declaration was immediately endorsed by the Attorney General of Texas and all 20 Republican state senators. Abbot’s threat is aimed in particular at Travis County (Austin) sheriff Sally Hernandez. The day of Trump’s inauguration Hernandez said she would “reduce cooperation” with federal authorities who want her department to hold people jailed on minor crimes until their immigration status is checked. Abbott, a Christian fundamentalist and enthusiastic Trump supporter, is making a classic move from the fascist ...
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Freedom of Press Under Attack in Trump’s America
Donald Trump and his regime are aggressively moving to end the guarantee of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution that there shall be “no law … abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press”. Six journalists arrested in Washington D.C. during protests of Trump’s inauguration are facing felony riot charges that carry up to 10 years in prison and a $25,000 fine. Suzanne Nossel, the executive director of PEN America said this week that “Even a few weeks ago, the prospect of large numbers of journalists in America facing criminal charges, fines, and prison terms for doing their ...
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