Obama Silent After American, Western Aid Workers Attacked, Raped by US-Backed...
On Monday, Human Rights Watch and the Associated Press reported that a South Sudanese journalist was shot dead last month and numerous American and Western aid workers were attacked, gang-raped and...
View ArticleObama Waives Ban on Military Aid to Child Soldier Armies for 7th Straight Year
For the seventh straight year, President Barack Obama has granted waivers from the Child Soldiers Prevention Act of 2008 (CSPA) to nations whose militaries conscript, employ and recruit children. CSPA...
View ArticleUS Escalating Secret War in Somalia
The Obama administration is quietly escalating the covert US-led war against al-Shabaab fighters in Somalia, deploying hundreds of Special Forces troops, launching air strikes and using mercenaries and...
View ArticlePermanent US Residents Included in Trump’s Muslim Nation Visa Ban
Permanent United States residents — holders of so-called green cards — are included in President Donald Trump’s executive order banning immigrants, refugees and travelers from seven majority Muslim...
View Article‘Constitutional Crisis’: Border Agents Defy Judges’ Orders on Trump Muslim...
In what one congressman called a “constitutional crisis,” US border agents are reportedly defying federal court rulings and detaining people from seven majority Muslim countries — including green card...
View ArticleLeaked Trump Executive Order Would Let US Companies Trade in ‘Blood Diamonds’
The Trump administration has drafted an executive order suspending regulation of the trade in conflict minerals, including “blood diamonds,” which have contributed to tremendous death, destruction and...
View ArticleTrump Won’t Appeal Court’s Travel Ban Rejection to Supreme Court — For Now
The White House said on Friday it would not immediately appeal a federal appeals court ruling blocking President Donald Trump’s executive order banning citizens of seven predominantly Muslim nations...
View ArticleEx-CIA Agent Sabrina De Sousa, Convicted in Italy Rendition Case, Arrested in...
A former Central Intelligence Agency agent wanted in Italy after being convicted of illegally kidnapping an Egyptian cleric who was sent to Egypt under the Bush-era extraordinary rendition program has...
View ArticleUS Financing Supplier of Africa Mines Accused of Slave Labor
The US government’s export credit agency has provided hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer-backed financing over the past decade to a supplier of equipment to African mines accused of slave...
View ArticleBen Carson: Slaves Were ‘Immigrants’ in ‘Land of Dreams and Opportunity’
Newly-confirmed Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson made his agency debut by calling slaves “immigrants” whose hard work and aspirations for freedom proved that the United States really...
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